E3 is Finished

[Drewbacca]

So nobody claiming to be from TNL went to e3 last year?

[Frogacuda]

A lot of the old TNL guys write for GotNext now and most of us went, but no one claimed TNL on their registration. If anyone did it would be news to me, anyway.

[Tommy Tallarico]

So nobody claiming to be from TNL went to e3 last year?

Don't answer a question with a question. You made a statement. Back it up. Who went to E3 last year that represented TNL?

[Drewbacca]

A lot of the old TNL guys write for GotNext now and most of us went, but no one claimed TNL on their registration. If anyone did it would be news to me, anyway.

Oh yeah I forgot about Got-Next.

[GaijinPunch]

Never been to E3, but it's nice to have some type of benchmark where developers and publishers are trying to get their shit out by a specific amount of time. There's still the TGS, but that's so ass-nuts crowded.

[Tommy Tallarico]

So nobody claiming to be from TNL went to e3 last year?

On top of never being funny, you're also never right.

[Shinobi128]

Financially or physically? I hear there are lots of after parties at E3.

More so financially.

[Cowdisease]

More so financially.

How much debt did you accumulate from that E3?

whoa there, VG Cats has some competition.

LOL. Those Robobo samples were god awful.

[Bacon McShig]

The current reason about releasing every game during Christmas is because its when most people are out in the stores. Do you think that releasing games throughout the year would actually change this?

I'm not convinced it would if, say, half the games released in 4Q were spread out. I know tons of industries have conventions only through herd mentality, but I think the reasons for this are still legit.

Oh, it's always going to be the most critical buying time of the year, sure. But it's past critical mass, there's only so much people can buy. When even morphix has a hard time keeping up with releases, you know there's a problem.

Titles can still do well the rest of the year. Hitman sold pretty briskly last month (200k+ on 360 alone, IIRC), I sincerely doubt it would have done nearly as well if it were timed to compete directly against Splinter Cell and Gears of War.

I looked at the Sunday ads yesterday, and I don't really recall any new releases. The highlight of the week was PSP's new Greatest Hits line. That's pretty pathetic. Target didn't even bother to put any games in their ad, I can't even remember the last time that happened.

[Dolemite]

One day ban.

This sucks. I wanted to attend at least one in my life.

Not me. As it's been said, you're crowded elbow to elbow with sweaty, smelly nerds and spending hours standing in lines to play buggy, half-finished games. I'd rather just get my info from the web. That being the case, I'd be just as happy with E3 being scaled down.

Failed!

When I glanced at the URL, I dared dream that it was what I thought it was. And it was! I fucking love that line from Bloodsport, it's the greatest thing ever.