News EA CEO hates the new E3

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/07/21/ea-ceo-hates-the-new-e3/1

John Riccitiello, CEO of Electronic Arts, has said that the new E3 is a huge disappointment, an opinion mirrored by Ubisoft among others.

 

from a consumer point of view, the amount of content that can be found on sites like, G4, gametrailers, gamespot, etc.... is crazy.....

not sure that most of these press guys would be able to deliever the type of content that have been available in the last two years as the public would be in the way.

if i was able to get to E3 every year then i would love to play these games first hand, but if E3 change back to what it was, would we still get the same coverage with all the public queuing to play these games as well as the press?

 

It was E3's own choise, if you don't want to be a gamer (customer) event but a pure "maker" event...and the makers have no interest in meeting eachother...

This is what happens.

 

Any excuse to post Bianca Beauchamp in PVC.

As for E3, it looks like everyone's saying the same thing. What once was a revered event has become a farce.

 

where did that picture come from, i want a full sized one

gaming conventions are about players getting a feel of what to expect. so E3 basically shot both of its feet at the same time, while waving good-bye

 

E3 has been redundant for years.

wuyanxu, here's a slightly bigger one http://images.anime.xunlei.com/collection/s3/1/133414Xa6dszlsUfuf1OFpZA5Q3hWvQXgEPsukjOUZw2lD.jpg and more of them: http://blogs.ya.com/game-babes/200605.htm

http://tineye.com/ is your friend

 

I'm confused. Why is the Governor of Texas giving the keynote address at E3? What does he have to do with the video game industry?

-monkey

 

Indeed but in the spirit of being pedantic, she is wearing latex/rubber and not PVC

Kimbie

 

Sorry, I was thinking about Mitzi Martin while writing that.

 

why dont they just have 1 day for journalists only then the rest of the week for everyone.... that gives the journos a head start

 

tits

 

Surely it was a consortium of all of these companies who decided to scale it down in the first place?

If they want the old, "good" E3 back (like all of us gamers do) they can have it... Surely?

 

that just makes too much sense now doesn't it?

well said, my friend. well said.

 

In all seriousness, hasn't the Leipzig Games Convention already taken over from E3? I didn't even know E3 was still going on until it was mentioned here.

 

That's alot of tits with no jobs this summer, thanks E3! D:<

 

booth babes or go away. period.

like other has said, content on the net is insane... so u need somethin else to gather interests. i mean, who wouldnt smile when they see.... well... i mean... well u get the idea..

 

Hum... the whole purpose of tradeshows is to introduce products to the customers. Holding press only events was seriously the dumbest idea ever for E3. I can't believe the software/hardware manufacturers still participated in the events. Come on, we the gamers are the consumer, not the press. Give us boobs and free swag and we will be happy, exclude us from your event and you are wasting your money.

 

OMG! Them booth babes in that there picture! I wants one! Or both, for that matter!

 

i completely agree!

edit: its dead, shame, i wanted to go....

 

ya E3 has been going down hill for years now, I mean this year like what some 1300 companies turned then down or something ridiculous like that and I think if it keeps up like this we will be telling stories of E3 by 2010 instead watching coverage on it and they need to go back to be semi-public versus press only.