E3 2017 - events starting Saturday 6/10

[A Black Falcon]

It is true that E3 doesn't mean as much as it used to, but there is something to be said for announcing things to real people. Just like last year, by not having a live show like Sony and MS do Nintendo makes it harder to have a memorable reveal like those Sony had last year, or, of course, like my favorite E3 moment ever, the TP reveal in Nintendo's E3 '04 conference. Those things do mean something.

The moment E3 closed it's doors to anyone except industry press was the moment that ended.

E3 always was an industry-only conference, though. For a while it was easy for almost anyone to get in, but cracking down on that wasn't changing much really since again it always had been an industry event. This year, though, for the first time, they actually sold a limited (was it 15,000?) passes to the general public to let them in to E3. It will be interesting to see how that goes. Yeah it'd be awesome, but a lot of the "good stuff" is hidden in back rooms you only get to with appointments and real press credentials and such, so no general public person would have the same E3 experience as members of the press. And for the press, even if E3 means less than it used to it still means something.

I've got nothing to get excited about.

The announcements, learning about what games are coming, etc. doesn't excite you? Even in a year like this where there haven't been any big leaks yet, that doesn't mean that nothing interesting will be announced! There's a lot to look forward to, from more on Project Scorpio to if Nintendo will announce any more 2017 Switch games. It's more interesting presented at the show than in random Directs and such. E3 also draws a lot more attention than any other gaming event, so you get more people looking at your stuff without as much effort needed to tell people about it; that still has at least some value I think.