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Acquire16 t1_jed3630 wrote

Reply to comment by Dasteru in Geoff Keighley is brutal lol by x2FrostFire

There's already conventions like that. Biggest one is PAX which happens across the US and in Australia. E3 served a very specific purpose as a trade show. For an industry that's primarily digital software there's no reason to do such a large in person event anymore.

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CouchWizard t1_jeec5p1 wrote

Unsure if you've been, but at least PAX East has only had that as a side attraction. It's maybe about 15% indie, 15% AA, 10% AAA, 15% PC hardware, and 45% merch booths. Expo/Convention as a dev to consumer thing days are numbered, and the writing on the wall was when PAX started being streamer focused

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The_Rox t1_jeesrmm wrote

for industry events, GDC exists and appears to have eaten heavily into what E3 covered.

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RKD__ t1_jefvpok wrote

How do you not mention GDC lol

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