I too thought E3 died decades ago, so I looked it up. Turns out in ~2007 E3 decided they were a industry event for industry people, so they made it invitation-

I too thought E3 died decades ago, so I looked it up. Turns out in ~2007 E3 decided they were a industry event for industry people, so they made it invitation-only and cut the attendance from 70,000 to 5,000 https://web.archive.org/web/20060811192744/http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060730-7382.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060811192744/http://arstechnic...