E3: Hate It or Love It?
July 25th, 2008 by rafer“E3: hate it or love it? Game industry wrestles with how to boost next year’s show”
The website of Standard has released an article about this year’s E3.
The details are as below:
There are so many posts going up about who loved or hated E3 that the discussion over the show format is overshadowing coverage of the video games previewed in Los Angeles last week. The elegies for E3 are flowing throughout the Internet.
Industry agent Keith Boesky said people told him that the empty hallways were “post apocalyptic.” A telling moment for me: Tom Russo, former G4TV programming head, waved at me from a few hundred yards away, in the empty corridor, and yelled, “Dean, can you see me in the crowd?” John Riccitiello, CEO of Electronic Arts, told the San Francisco Chronicle that “I hate E3 like this,” while Laurent De Toc, a Ubisoft executive, piled on, saying the show was more like a convention for pipe-fitters.