Game Conference 2007 Over, TGS On The Way
- Scribbled on August 31st, 2007 by Derrick Schommer
- Filed in E3, GDC, Leipzig Games Convention, Off Topic, Tokyo Game Show
With a fairly uneventful E3 we saw a huge increase in attendance at the Games Conference in Leizpig this year. Now, we look towards the future.. September 21st through September 23rd - The Tokyo Game Show otherwise known as TGS.
Not surprisingly, they’re predicting a large attendance at the tokyo show as well. What happens next year or the year after when the attendance continues to increase? My guess, the sheer number of journalists, bloggers and gamers will cause companies to save tidbits of awesome news for these shows instead of pushing them out at E3.
In the end, E3 would probably end up being a place to show some preview game code to “professionals” in the industry and all the hype and craze will be left to Leipzig and Tokyo. This would be a shame for some of us that don’t have the time or finances to shoot off to other countries to see games released in North America.
Perhaps E3 will become a “Game Developers Conference” for the game industry where publishers and developers can look over some of their peers in the industry while the news reporters and journalists grasp and small amounts of information to “break” on their websites (although most will probably be announced prior to E3 like this year).
Let’s wait and see the overall TGS turnout, I bet it will be high. In five years we may see big companies tossing tons of money into glitz and glamour of overseas shows rather then burning it on E3 as they did in years past.
Interesting.
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