Poll: Did You Miss E3 2020 Last Week?

PS5 reveal made up for it so np at all!

I miss it, the drip feed of new previews and news sucks.

I did kinda miss the excitement of having one big convention. Who knows what Nintendo are even doing, they have about 2 games with release dates so it would have been nice to see something from them too.

I only miss having a load of new exciting stuff all in the space of a few days. Everyone having their stuff spread over a few months is fine but dilutes the experience somewhat.

I'm among the 11% (so far) who didn't even know it was last week.
I used to get all excited and hyped for E3, but since Playsation left it didn't have the same energy to it.
I'm sure people who got to attend it in person really miss it, but for those of us like me who just watch it from home, Playstation 5 Event was more than enough.

I miss the compact nature of E3. Everything happened in just a few days. I would take that Monday off, relax, and just soak in the gaming announcement bliss. As it is this year, this fractured mess, it's impossible to get that feeling and watch all the announcements. It just isn't as good to me.

As long as we get a bumper crop of gaming news around this time then fine. I don't mind whether the info comes from E3 over the span of a few days, or multiple events over the course of weeks.

@get2sammyb 100% agree. I hated E3 with a passion. You think it's cool for the first few hours and while the pre-show presentations are going on... then you realise you're stuck in a convention center demoing unfinished code to people who are running on nothing but caffeine and sugar for days on end in a poorly air conditioned convention centre answering the same questions a bajillion times. It's not useful to journalists and it's a pain in the ass for developers. Just let us show stuff when it's ready and let you journos ask questions then. Sure there can be some need for face to face meets, but I just think cramming it all into one week isn't healthy or sane.

tbh sony just showed us last week that atleast they don't need e3 anymore. the ps5 reveal has more views than the ps4 e3 reveal,and more views than any of their e3 shows or any other publisher's.

plus their new state of play format focusing on 1 game is also a new hit for them.

so when it comes to sony,no i don't miss their e3 shows,altough they where awesome.

also doing it like this means that the hours the show takes place on are way more managable for us european folk so yeah. i could never watch a live sony e3 show but so far was always able to watch their livestreams.

@jdv95
Hit the nail right on the head. I feel E3 has been lacking for years and that Nintendo had the right idea when they started 'directs'.

Now that Sony did their stream successfully and me and my friends watched it in a party together I reiterate that I believe E3 is unnecessary and expensive for publishers and developers when they can use streaming services and save a fortune on a flashy show and renting a convention centre.

The only thing I really miss from E3 is Giant Bomb's After Dark show.

While it woulve been great and would've helped pass the time stuck at home better I don't really miss it to be honest. Theyve taken a week and basically stretched it out over the entire summer so its not like we're missing much in my view. Personally like the a big story/reveal or 2 everyday over a few months vs the wave of news packed into a week. Highly doubt it will every be back in the same way as the past

I honestly forgot it was happening. I was too preoccupied by...
(Beleaguered sigh)
The rest of the world.

Conventions are a great thing. Bringing people together to showcase new games. But to be honest, as someone reading news and not writing it, I don’t mind having smaller more regular updates.

I miss E3, but I don’t think it’s the end of the world.

I saw the PS5 reveal the same way I saw E3 streamed. I could only understand a person that went to E3 on the show floor missing it.

@jdv95 the Ghost of Tsushima State of Play was brilliant. I hope there's something similar in the works planned for all of Sony's PS5 launch games, and may e even some third party games like Deathloop. It's a much better way of informing consumers, while ensuring games are given space to breath and not get drowned out in a flood of press releases.

The PS5 reveal was E3, the next XB event on July is E3, PC Gaming Show and NG+Expo is E3.

E3 is NOT NEEDED anymore. Death to all flutes!

Didn't miss it. While the PS5 showcase was massively disappointing, the Persona 4 Golden PC announcement made me forget the blue team's indie 30fps station 5 show.

@Menchi oh dear.......

E3 is irrelevant to most people that get excited for it each year. What people love are the conferences and the announcements, which were never really part of E3 anyway. They all went on before the show opened.

I do think it would have been a hugely disappointed E3 if this showcase was what we got though. It was good, but not great.

Never used to watch it live anyway, only a recap the next day on YouTube. But I watched the PS5 reveal show in its entirety, which is probably more than i watched from the couple of years at E3 put together.

@get2sammyb You asked, I answered.

I miss E3. Not necessarily the physical event itself, but I miss the spirit of it. It was like video game news Christmas. It was just a fun week to geek out on all the latest news.

Most of these smaller streams aren't very good. I understand the work that goes into to them but there's nothing major coming out from them.
The PS5 event was the only thing with impact, we'll have the EA press on thursday and the Ubi event is only in mid-July!!
Everything is way too spread out.

With numerous other online events taking place, lots of new reveals etc, I haven't really missed E3. Its not like I ever attended in the first place so its not really much different - watching reveals, trailers, gameplay etc just like I would have done had E3 taken place. If anything, it seems like its been much more spread out over the last few weeks instead of crammed into a few days...

I think if E3 was on we'd have more new from Nintendo and Microsoft.

New has been trickling in, but other than Sony nothing major.

Yeah I miss it. Disappointed that Song pulled out beforehand as well. The PS4 E3 show was fantastic and as mucha s I enjoyed the PS5 event it didn't have the same spirit with guys on stage and a cheering audience.

Online streams are the way of the future. Bummer people can't go try games out, but that was such a small group of people able to actually do that...

I very much missed E3 last week. The Big Three can do an event whenever they want and people will watch. That's not is missing. What's missing is giving smaller studios a spotlight by attaching their work to the big studios. Even if those watching from home don't see it the press (and now influencers?) get hands on and can give these games a much needed push. This trickle effect isn't really working out. I give credit to Microsoft. They are still having highlight events such as May's insider and ID@XBox but I don't think it's having the same effect.

I even think the current trend from the Big Three isn't that consumer friendly. Sony's event last week was a good showcase for games but they still haven't answered any of the deep hardware and software questions that have been lingering since early this year. Microsoft has their event so far back that they are causing this annoying game of cat and mouse with Sony. Nintendo is.... doing something? I know this is all caused by outside factors but I hope none of these companies takes these ideas as strategies for the future.

I did miss it, just because it was a lot easier to follow than all the myriad streams. If it was organised with dedicated shows from each platform holder and maybe one collective one, that would make it a lot easier to follow.

2 years ago was the only time I’d watched E3. I wasn’t impressed. I would’ve skipped it had it been held anyway.

I miss E3 because it was show, that concentrated all reveals. It was like christmas for my gaming soul. All presents at one day and rest of the year I could go on.

I don't necessarily miss E3. What I do miss though is a single event, where all the info gets funneled out. This year, with E3 not happening, it feels like everybody decided to throw their own thing at the exact same time and now every one of these events is just yelling over each other. Any important info is getting lost in the noise. I like small events. They just need to be spread out and coordinate more.

I'll be honest, the substitutes we have with Summer Game Fest and Summer of Gaming do more than enough to emulate the E3 experience at home for me.

The PS5 event and the reveal of P4G on PC more than made up for the lack of a proper convention this year. I'm completely satisfied

@Menchi massively disappointing? Man I don't know what you are looking for but your comment history states 'anything other than sony'.

Its not cool, big or even quantifiable to say the PS5 presentation wasn't anything other than fantastic. The length, games, reveal, presentation; it was fire.

I was considering jumping to PC as it has some major benefits and would probably suit me better long term. However you have to give credit where credit is due else you're a wet lettuce.

@themcnoisy That's funny considering the PS4 is the most useful of the 3 consoles to me. It has more exclusives that I'm interested in than the others, but not where I buy miltiplats. I guess it doesn't help I only recently joined the site at a time where the PS4 is at end of life and there is only a single game left of interest to me.

I'm disappointed to see there are still people that do not understand a difference in taste. If a presentation shows almost nothing of interest to me, or only 3 games that look remotely next gen in their next gen reveal, yes I find that massively disappointing. Others may not.

main thing in e3 that i wanna see is the sony press conference and the ps5 reveal served just as well

really very sad people saying it's time to move on, the game awards a d E3 are the only real big public gaming events on the calendar, they're a great spectacle for gaming fun despite any of the corporate rubbish

Let's face it: E3 as most of us here nostalgically remember it is gone and has been gone since about 2016. The Event has changed so much that major participants were backing out before Covid-19.

@Menchi obviously if you are going to watch a next generation presentation shown at 1080p on YouTube. It's not going to look next gen is it? Please don't forget that the current gen gold standard was set by Sony this gen.

There are a number of games which will blow this generation away. Starting with GT7, Ratchet and Clank, HZD 2, Demons Souls then your left field games like Stray, Kena and Returnal. They all looked fricking amazing.

Also if you are only 'interested' in 3 titles after that blowout - sorry but that says more about you than the presentation.

Sony presentation was almost perfect, it had returning legends like the oddworld and LBP franchises, new out there stuff like Ghostwire and Jett, solid base stuff I've mentioned already and was a love letter to all the fans down the years.

It's not about tastes, it's calling out a fraud.

@themcnoisy You know they uploaded them in 4k as well right?

I'm ignoring the rest of your fanboy argument on purpose because it's covered in the previous post.

You can feel how you want about it, but "almost perfect" gave me a good laugh.

I don't thin E3 is going to be the same again, but I also believe it can be an important event for gaming. As much as I appreciate Nintendo Direct-esque presentations, the time of announcing games years before release is gone for me, no patience to watch trailers for something that's barely an idea - in this sense, E3 is perfect because publishers can wait until closer to release and announce stuff at E3.

I do believe E3 needs to change, though. Digital presentations, maybe trying games by streaming or downloading demos during the period, with live comments from devs, I don't know. They need to change somehow.

In Sony's case? No, they pretty much had their E3 with the PS5 reveal event last week. If anyone's being hurt by no E3 it's Nintendo, since they have a fat load of nothing right now.

In general though, I don't think the industry needs E3 anymore. Livestreams and social media posts make E3 less and less of a necessity for new reveals.

I used to love E3, but now I didn't even realize it was supposed to be last week. I definitely don't miss it, and prefer something like what Sony just did. It's also more fun to have these streams spaced apart. Xbox is in July, and who knows when Nintendo will do something.

E3 was fun mainly because every day brought something new and exciting, but I don't really have a problem with what we currently have. It keeps the summer exciting instead of everything happening at once then nothing.

I miss it mostly for Nintendo reasons, the wait for Nintendo to reveal the 2020 lineup has been a lot more annoying than the wait for Sony to reveal the PS5 and at this point we'll probably know the PS5 price before we know what's coming to Switch this holiday. Treehouse Live was also enjoyable to watch during E3.

I looked forward to E3 each year but usually did not watch it live. I would pick what interested me and watch and read about it the next day. Push Square always helped me with their articles.

So yes i did miss E3 last week. I missed the event of a large amount of gaming news provided in 3 days. Drip feeding the news is ok but not the same.

If we'd had a Nintendo Direct last week I probably wouldn't have minded at all, but as Nintendo isn't doing directs at the moment (or any of their other E3 things like Nintendo Treehouse), their presence at least was something I missed. Outside of that though, not really; most of the information I was interested in was covered in Sony's PS5 presentation.

Neither question had options I am okay with. I didn't remember the exact date, but I am still quite bummed by E3's absence. And I don't think it will be the same anymore and I don't think that's a good thing. I think it's quite sad.

@AJDarkstar Thanks AJ, I won't send another reply to him. Can't wait to get my hands on the PS5!

Not in the slightest.

Tbh I haven't missed it, publisher's like EA, ubisoft, Bethesda were always full of filler and the same titles each year. And Sony had pulled out so that just left Microsoft which in not interested in.

And Nintendo do a Nintendo direct, I think it's time to just scrap e3 altogether and focus on digital events

I miss the booth babes.

/s

In all seriousness, the pandemic and adult life have distracted me from E3 this year. As much as it's a physical space for gamers to congregate and enjoy what's to come, the world seems to have 'moved on' from that style of information distribution to an online space that has more creative freedom. Additionally, as a 36-year-old gamer with a wife, kids, and other adult life woes, I can't sit down and consume E3 as I did during the last generation. I've found that I'll watch or listen to [insert personality here] 's take on what was announced since I don't have time to watch it personally and I'm already a fan of [insert personality here], so why not kill 2 birds with 1 stone?

Finally, big 3rd-party studios seem to shoehorn themselves into those spots to remain visible (ex: why in the hell did Bethesda mention 'Starlight' and breathe the words 'ES:6') during E3, so if you as a studio don't have a "Bethesda 2015" caliber conference to give, so there's no need to put out something subpar aka Bethesda 2016, 2017, 2018. If you have something 'big' to announce, these studios can do what Sony has done - produce a well designed, polished video and release it to the masses. Wanna do a Q/A afterward if you're feeling bold? Host a Reddit AMA after the announcement on /r/[studio] and let the reporters and media companies sift through that for bylines and such.

No.

I much rather prefer Sony, MS and Nintendo giving us pre-recorded 1hr videos filled with games.

Like Sony did last week.