Probably after all major studios pulled out. Turns out dumping tons of money on huge marketing shows that usually turn out a ton of drama probably isn't the best spend of money. It's much cheaper to run your own announcements under your own control. The better game show for fans would be PAX.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention there's the benefit to companies of being better able to manage the production of the announcements and avoid the random pitfalls that can happen at live shows. They can make sure the games they are announcing look their best and they can control their message. All three major console companies have had their versions of E3 failures that have led to major embarrassments for them in the past. They would rather not have that happen to them again if they can help it.

[–] gaylord_fartmaster 10 points 11 months ago

Yeah, they don't even need to design booths to hide the beefy PCs their console games are actually running on anymore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Did you mean to respond to Gigan?