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GO3 Electronic Entertainment Expo To Replace E3?
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dowlingw writes "With the recent announcement that E3 has been downsized, a similar high-profile event, GO3 Electronic Entertainment Expo 2007 is being held in Perth, Western Australia and promises to showcase products and services from vendors worldwide, especially those in the South-East Asia region. It also looks like everyone might get a similar event closer to home."
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Ground Glass writes "Next Generation is reporting that E3 as we know it is finished. The games industry has lost its most glamorous show." Update: 07/30 21:18 GMT by Z : A reader wrote in with a link to an Ars Technica story saying that the event is to be downsized, not cancelled. From that article: "At the end of the day, the reason is very simple: ten years ago, you needed a big trade show to generate buzz and hype. It used to be that COMDEX was a special event because so much new stuff was unveiled, and this was the only way to see it. Now, however, information comes down the pipe faster than ever, and companies are wondering if there's really any benefit to spending the big money on displays only to share the floor with other competitors looking to out-wow attendees." I guess we'll see in a day or two what the future of E3 looks like.
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Uh, Linux? (Score:1, Informative)
(http://www.smoothweb.net/)
Re:Uh, Linux? (Score:5, Funny)
Not being a troll, I run Ubuntu on this machine and I love it, just amused
Why the name... (Score:2)
(http://www.krillrblog.com/)
who thinks up these things? (Score:5, Insightful)
Perth? At last! (Score:4, Informative)
Not like E3 (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.consoleradar.com/)
Hell, E3 didn't even let people under the age of 18 to attend anyway.
Uhhhh....right.... (Score:4, Insightful)
Perth (Score:5, Interesting)
The Perth Convention Exhibition Centre [perthcentre.com.au] is a tomb. It was a taxpayer's nightmare. It was expensive, took god damn ages to build and ultimately became an eyesore because of the banal 'generic block of buildings' design [google.com] that was chosen. It was an attempt to attract more conventions and exhibitions in Perth but these days remains mostly dormant and unused. Not to mention that when it IS used, entrance fees are ludicrously expensive (in a vain attempt to offset the cost) and still feels obtrusive and unwelcoming.
If it actually ends up happening, don't expect the "GO3 Electronic Entertainment Expo" to be anything more than horrible. You'll end up paying extortionary prices for parking only to find maybe a hundred booths with no groundbreaking visions into the future of their product line, but instead a couple of racks full of computer hardware you could get already buy off the shelf for a cheaper price at your local computer store and games that've been released months ago.
This is just another disappointing 'expo' that serves no purpose to the consumer. It's a futile attempt to justify the construction of the centre which has spent more days empty and sucking taxpayer's money than anything else.
move along (Score:1)
(http://www.javenue.org/)
like saying "iPod Killer" (Score:2, Insightful)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/)
The Battle for East Asia (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://bluezhift.proliphus.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday January 31 2007, @10:25AM)
Right now Perth may have a couple of advantages, one it's in an English speaking territory so it can potentially draw interest from North America. And two, it doesn't carry the political baggage that Korean, Chinese, and Japanese sites might due to the history of the relations of those nations. And for a city the size of Perth (1.3 million it says on the site), having a successful show like this once or twice a year may add enough to the local economy to make it worthwhile. Not only that, a good GO3 could attract other shows from across Australia to Perth.
While some serious business could be done at such a show, I think it is pretty clear that they're after the hordes of consumers who will come for the hype, glitz, and a chance to play some new games. I wouldn't expect too many consumers to take a trip from the Americas to Perth for this show, but you can bet that visitors from Asia might make the trip along with Australians of course.
PAX (Score:2)
The only way a number of smaller companies can get attention from the press is if the ravenous gamer crowd is *looking* for any new piece of information. EA can get the attention of the masses any time they want. Smaller studios need a gimmick to get gamers to look for them even if its on accident. PAX will and already is filling this role. With such a significant amount of game development happening in either LA or Seattle not Australia, I see the Penny Arcade Expo quickly swelling dramatically in size next year to epic proportions. They're already filling the Seattle Convention Center this year.
Realistic expectations and simpler solutions (Score:1)
Quakecon FTW! (Score:1)
1)It already has a huge following.
2)It is in the US.
3)There have been E3 sized displays at the convention for years now.
4)There seems to have been some word from ID software that they are willing to let more companies throw up displays in the future: http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_cont
Egocentric much? (Score:2)
First off this topic's title is all wrong. They arn't replacing E3, they are creating a e3 style event in Australia for the korean and asian gaming community. This is a community that puts americans to shame.
Second off Quake Con, PAX, and TGS can NOT replace E3, they aren't the same event. E3 was an industry only event that fans corrupted by forcing their way in. That's the reason it fell, because the show started to cater to those people who didn't have a reason to be there. The news media basically had to fight with kids. Sure IGN got back room views, however the local news medias and the independant games got ignored more and more in recent years.
Third E3 is going to remain E3. It's just going to be invitation only, like it always should be. The only group that appears to be considering a true successor is the CEA which runs CES. Everyone else is trying to make a fan based show, that's the complete opposite of what the original idea is. And we have tons of public trade shows already.
Fourth all of you who read this and say "I gotta get invited to that" or "I gotta go to that" Thank you for being that person who helped ruined E3. The simple fact is that E3 was hurt because people like you, who didn't belong forced their way into the show, ran around and made everyone's life hard. That's why it's been basically kaiboshed. Next time you're lamenting the fact you can never go to E3, just remind yourself you should never have tried in the first place. This includes the fake news media (thanks for your website that's only up when they are checking it and has no real info), the fan, or the store clerk who really did nothing but go play games, as well as the guys who are "making the game" by which I mean have started a 100 line code product and write approximately 1 line of code a millenia.
If you actually do work in the industry, you know well enough what I'm talking about so you'd disregard this anyways.
Replacing E3? (Score:2)
(http://powerlord.livejournal.com/)
Those rules? Location, location, location.
Game Companies have a few markets that they really care about. Those markets appear to be Japan, North America, and Europe.
E3 is North America's big show. The Tokyo Game Show is Japan's big show, although Nintendo holds its own Space World Expo every year. I am unfamiliar with any such show for Europe. I would not doubt if one exists, though.
The idea of replacing E3 with a show in Australia is simply ludicrous, because the Australia game market simply isn't large enough to support it.
Re:Complete Ignorance Of The Game Biz (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Complete Ignorance Of The Game Biz (Score:1)
(http://www.rulingwars.net/)