Just been something on my mind every time the "E3" month of June comes around. The days of E3 were pretty exciting for us not just because we knew what was gonna be happening the following fall, but what the future of gaming might actually be.
Now I really hate how the game industry does things now with announcements. Like, why can't we know the date and time for such an event ahead of time? We know a Nintendo direct is likely to happen this month, but why must it always be revealed a day or two before hand? Tell us a fucking date and time. Just tired of the endless speculating on EVERY THING, even things as simple as when something is going to happen. We know there's a new Switch...oh, but we're not talking about that yet....we know there's a direct this month...oh, but we're not gonna tell you when.
PS3 and Wii released in 2006, but we knew by E3 2005 plenty of information to go off, and speculate what the consoles might be like. We knew over a year in advance that the Wii was coming when it still called Revolution, or we knew about the Wii U and the gamepad over a year before it released. Just give us something to work with instead of always having to deal with assholes spreading rumors, which may or may not be true. That's the real frustration, instead of having reliable information, we have to rely on leaks, and that's ridiculous that we should have to get information that way. Things were always close to the chest on some things in the game industry, but it's gotten to ridiculous levels in recent years.
Tiago Rodrigues is probably getting paid peanuts to work compared to an actual employee at SIE.
