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E3 No Longer In LA. Where Could It Be Next? In Your City Perhaps?

FRoGBuster | July 20, 2007 | News | E3 2007 Company 
With so much dissapointment in this year's E3, changes needed to be made. Since this was ESA's final contracted year for Santa Monica the event will not be renewed for anywhere in the LA area. Then where will it be? New York, Las Vegas, San Francisco? . . . Or the nation's top video gaming city, Seattle?
Big changes could be in store for E3 again. We've been hearing that the show will be moved away from Los Angeles next year, but a new location has yet to be pinned down. Microsoft's Jeff Bell would seem to be in favor of Las Vegas, where a number of conventions are held.

This year's new E3 was a drastic change from years past, and the event garnered some pretty mixed reactions, with some executives deciding not to attend at all.

That said, next year's E3 may be in for an overhaul yet again. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has already acknowledged that this year's show was somewhat experimental and that they're looking at feedback to improve the show going forward. Furthermore, two unrelated sources at E3 2007 told GameDaily BIZ that 2007 was actually the final contracted year that the ESA has with LA County.

Now MCV appears to be hearing the same thing, but they're stating it as more a matter of fact. Without providing any source, MCV states that the ESA chose Santa Monica simply for contractual reasons and that E3 will definitely not take place in the LA area next year.
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    Storm | July 21, 2007
    I have a article similar to this, where those that attended E3 can vote on where the next E3 would be held, and some other options. New York wasn't one of them, unfortunately Even so...not like the public can go in.
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    dmf_dynasty | July 21, 2007
    Civic Center, Charleston,West Virginia FTW. We have a car show there every year. It's sort of the same thing.
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    Storm | July 21, 2007
    Hey we have a car show every year, too, at the JJC.
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    black_wing79 | July 21, 2007
    well does'nt make much difference for us non-US citizens unless they decided to hold it in some other country
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    gotenks992 | July 21, 2007
    Bring it to the Rogers Center in Toronto, Canada. Be interesting if they brought it out of the U.S for once.
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    FRoGBuster | July 21, 2007
    I think they should split it into 5 different parts to have it run in the five corners of the US
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    Capn Droid | July 21, 2007
    I say that although it hosts no particular value or interest for E3ers, COLUMBUS OH

    Either that or the more likely, Seattle.
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    SACH1 | July 21, 2007
    We can't even go in so it doesn't matter, I do want them to stay in Anaheim though....
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    tidus04 | July 21, 2007
    Dose it have to stay in America, just out of interest ^^
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    VeGiTAX2 | July 21, 2007
    E3 is a US based trade show, asking E3 to go out of the US is like asking TGS to be in New York. It doesn't work and it doesn't make sense. Why would US publishers want to promote themselves in a European market, the fact that they're different regions entirely is enough to demonstrate that it would not be beneficial at all. I doubt a US publisher is going to go to Europe to go "hey everyone, you wont be able to play this at all, enjoy!" and dump however much money it takes to go over there.

    Other regions are free to host their own shows and they should, if the developers / publishers do not wish to do so then it's a loss for that region.

    In regard to car shows, they have auto shows all over the world, they might as well have it in Geneva if we're going on that basis.

    The news mill around all this revolves around a private survey sent to all the attendee's this year with a battery of questions about the show, the format, the location and etc. Most sites already have the basic information posted. Honestly it's the format that killed this. Had they downscaled what they already had things would have been fine. No one wants to travel all over a city pressed on time to handle things and attempt to play every game on every corner of the planet in 20mins time.

    At this point, none of the current options show anything outside of California. I doubt it's going to change much given their selections and pretty much exact region choices.
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    sten mk II | July 22, 2007
    If it's in America, it'll probably be somewhere in new york or florida.

    Those are the only two places I think they would go. Unless maybe Texas which I doubt. Even if it was across the street from my house I wouldn't go. I can just find out the information I want through the internet. Besides, the games are going to come out eventually so it's not really worth the money.
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    EdwardTheBard | July 22, 2007
    I think that the decline is partially due to the lack of some very good games or at least good franchises.
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    Tom | July 28, 2007
    MEN Arena Manchester or Old Trafford ftw!

    Nah that ain't gonna happen as much as I'd like it to - as VeGi said, it's a US based thing, so getting it here in England would be a no-no.

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