GameIndustry.biz has apparently confirmed that Microsoft will not be attending the E for All expo in LA at the end of October. Microsoft joins Sony now in ignoring the event organized by IDG World Expo, which was intended as a consumer-based replacement for E3. Sega, Capcom, SOE and Midway (who probably couldn't afford it anyway) will also not be attending.On the bright side of things, Nintendo and Electronic Arts have confirmed their attendance. They'll be joined by Konami, THQ, Namco Bandai and others. With Microsoft and Sony's non-attendance, this event would have been a total bust without Nintendo. Makes you wonder what it took for them to be an anchor? We're not saying anything, we're just asking.
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Sony: We don't need this, our products are flying off the shelves!
Microsoft: Best to do what Sony's doing guys, they're cool.
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Sony: nintendo or microsoft arn't showing any hardware, no point of going then.
microsoft: we got all the exclusives we want at the moment.
nintendo: what a great time to show off the third party spin offs.
Nintendo: LOL thanks for the Money you have given us to attend! And we get to send home the same idea we are for every type of gamer LOL PR HEAVEN! Time to expand to a new money bank.
Sony: HELLS NO! We are taking no chances on some vindictive A-hole reporter kicking the crap out of our games for fun,(even if it might be true). These E3 things have not turned out well for us the last few years. And those Bastards at MS keep griefing us.
Microsoft: Guys we got nothing, and no reason to go. Sony won't be there so there is no reason to grief them. Mark the calender for our next Sony Griefing? Good set course and make it so, ENGAGE!
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It would be like saying they don't care about their fans by not attending.
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They're probably focusing their efforts on a good show at TGS, especially Microsoft. They have no time to worry about a convention that might never take off.
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Nintendo's the one company everyone's always complaining about being too secretive. One of the biggest complaints people had about the N64 era was Nintendo's reluctance to spend big on television advertising and such. For comparison, one of the first announcements of the Xbox project was that they were spending $500 million dollars pushing the brand. Did you ever hear Nintendo do anything like that? Maybe now, but certainly not way back when.
Nintendo caters to consumers.
Microsoft caters to developers.
No one knows what exactly Sony caters to.
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Hasn't this always been Microsoft's mantra!
I do... They cater to their own egos...
Seriously, they're a ship of fools whose captain is a lunatic that answers to an imaginary Admiral from Mars who has dreams of universal conquest... Wait, that sounds like the plot to a lame sci-fi movie... And yet, it's the only description that fits...
Nintendo has to be there a 3rd party is so weak
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Remember that, every company not showing up.
>=p
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It could become big, but then again it may not. PAX isn't all that big, but E for All is trying to strike a different chord
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I do....the mainstream media.
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If that's what you're talking about, then yeah, I agree.
:P
Seriously, I like how the PS3 is shaping up better than how I see the 360, but Sony themselves are so totally lost anymore.
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(muhaha)
>: ]
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