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It really becomes politics here....
I think E3 feels like competing with Comic Con. Attendences are massive for the SDCC each year. The E3 people would love to have that level of popularity...but then they might afraid it becomes more than just a video game expo.
I would love to attend since it is in my backyard.
It was never open to the public. People just snuck in alot.
E3, before the downgrade was one of the biggest, if not the biggest video game convention out there. It was massive. Im under the impression that it was much bigger than Comic Con.
Opening to the public will bring it back up to what it was, but also make the journalists jobs harder.
Its funny considering people complained about the huge cost of boots on the developers side, and journalists hated the amount of work they had to do.
It's funny, with the complaints about cost. Opening it to the public would offset the costs by a lot. Something like E3, open to the public, could probably easily attract 20,000-30,000 attendees. Charge $60-75 for admission (really not a huge amount) and, well. That's a decent chunk of change. And that's just from admission alone, and doesn't count all the money that could be made from merchandise, extra fees for other events, etc...
They have games; just none that Miyamoto thinks are good enough to show. Unlike Sony with KillZone 2 they don't announce a game and then years upon years later tell you it's almost done.
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That, and most of their new games suck.
I was reading a game Informer magazine and they were discussing what the three companies were showing off, and Microsoft had gears of War 2, fable 2, Final fantasy whatever, and avatars as the big attractions. Sony had Resistance 2, Resistance for the PSP, God of War 3. And then Nitnendo came on with...with... WII CLASSIC MUUUUUUSIICCC!!!
It's okay though. I still have faith in Nintendo. They'll come out on top with their Mario Party 27, Mario Kart Wii 2.0, Mario Tennis 23, Mario Baseball 3, Mario Golf 4, Mario Basketball, Mario Kart Soccer 7, and, most importantly, TFU without the physics engine and graphics.
I really don't care, all I care are the announcements, but, dear god!, E3 it's just a shadow of its former self.
This year was terrible and, quite frankly, uneventful.
there ware more things back when it was a big convention, maybe going back to big booths and booth babes will improve its situation.
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Nintendo seems more interested in milking more money through peripheral sales. Two of their three games from E3 have peripherals alongside them. WiiSports has the motion plus, and Animal Crossing has the WiiTalk or whatever.
I guess. It seems that all console's have some sort of peripherals.
Wii Motion Plus is annoying considering the Wii Remote should be able to operate like that in the first place, and now we have to buy another accessory to make some games work.
But E3 and SDCC are two completely different kettle of fish. E3 is an industry convention revolving around one specific thing. SDCC is an open-to-the-public convention that encompasses many different things - comics, games, anime, sci-fi, fantasy, etc.
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In the early days of SDCC it was similar to the current E3. Restricted to comic books. As it evolved throught the years it became more open to other forms of pop culture. Not really going to predict the future...but there is a posibility that if E3 remains open to the public it will eventually evolve in a similar fashion to SDCC.
I think G4 had something to do with pushing E3 to be open to the public. And for that I'm very glad is going to happen.
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