I literally have no idea why "Geoff" appears to be a
Thing - I couldn't give a flying strawberry float whether you are going or not mate! :llol:
E3 has been a shadow of its former self for well over a decade now, so many things have eroded the value of it as an event that it's pretty pointless to get upset about it. As consumers and fans we now have so many more avenues through which to get news and information on what is coming up and the developers and publishers of games have infinitely more bandwidth for how they communicate and interact with people - E3 just doesn't really have the same role or need any more.
I do miss the E3 of the 90s - huge events, massive announcements, so much news, discussion and media that would practically overload the next 2 or 3 issues of any magazines you could read. But that reality has been dead for a long time now. And I don't think it really matters - big announcements will still happen, great new games will get their "WORLD PREMEEER", new technology will still be shouted from the rooftops (or played on them in the case of Switch
) - but it will happen through individual events or online communication and that's fine. The new iPhone announcement isn't any less exciting because it doesn't happen at the annual CES expo each year and it's the same for games.