Poll of the Day > IGN to fill in for e3 with Fan Friendly Convention...

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pionear posted...

Think they can replicate the success of e3?

E3 was never really "successful"... that's why they're not around any more. They had a couple decent years but struggled to keep up with the constantly shifting landscape of gaming and could never figure out how to make it financially feasible to support the convention

I mean, there are already successful in-person gaming conventions so they aren't really doing anything special on that front.

Can't spell Ignora-*dragged offstage*

No; that ship has sailed.

And the negative stigma will remain.

I give the convention a 7/10.

rjsilverthorn posted...

I mean, there are already successful in-person gaming conventions so they aren't really doing anything special on that front.

Pretty much. The only "void" E3 left was the idea of having a single convention that was the definitive place for big announcements, and that idea had already died long before E3 itself actually did as companies realized that large press conferences were largely a waste of money. There's still interest in gong to in-person conventions, but that's largely satisfied by the others that have emerged, many of which had already emerged as more accessible alternatives to E3 while E3 was still going strong. A new one from IGN isn't going to magically become the "definitive" convention any more than those others have, especially where we're likely never going back to the days of large, in-person press conferences now that streamed announcements have done as well as they have.