Companies Abandoning E3 In Droves
- Scribbled on May 2nd, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in E3, Industry News
If you didn’t need evidence that the Electronic Entertainment Expo was dead, Joystiq is reporting that Activision, Vivendi, NCSoft, and Foundation 9 are all skipping E3 2008. Ouch. This is serious, since there’s a ton of upcoming games by these companies, such as Spore Creatures (Foundation 9), The Agency MMO (NCsoft), Silent Hill: Homecoming (Foundation 9), Starcraft (Vivendi), Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (Activision), and so forth.
Big companies never liked E3 – since it didn’t really benefit them. E3 was more of a coming out party for smaller company games that would normally never get big press (See: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.) Are you happy or sad that E3 is slowy dying?
May 2nd, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I predicted this type of action was going to come, I was right…unfortunately. However, I’m sure I was like 1 of a million to predict this outcome after a year or so of crappy E3.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:01 pm
[...] year it might be a bit lighter still, with big publishers losing total faith in the event. This mean you will probably see no mention of Spore Creatures, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith [...]
May 5th, 2008 at 2:26 am
[...] is reporting that id Software may joining the throng of companies jumping ship from E3. Rather than seek the wisdom of the office Magic 8-Ball, we [...]
May 19th, 2008 at 11:47 am
[...] it can be all out hysterical. Electronic Arts has opened up and attacked Activision / Vivendi for ditching the Entertainment Software Association and E3, as EA VP of corporate communications Jeff Brown [...]
May 24th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
[...] is reporting that id Software is joining the mass exodus of companies leaving the Entertainment Software Association. ESA executive Rich [...]