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E3 has officially ended. (twitter.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Mago6246 to c/games
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After more than two decades of E3, each one bigger than the last, the time has come to say goodbye.

Thanks for the memories.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

When the pandemic effectively suspended E3, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft started producing direct videos. They haven't been interested in going back.

I'm sure someone will do a full postmortem write-up on E3, but with this sort of thing, there's a sort of inertia involved. Once something happens that pauses a regular gathering and makes everyone wonder "why were we doing this again?" there are times the gathering doesn't come back.