Sad to see. At its peak the dueling press conferences was enormously exciting and made for a week of high energy, "must see tv" type energy where you had to be

Sad to see. At its peak the dueling press conferences was enormously exciting and made for a week of high energy, "must see tv" type energy where you had to be there online in the moment to really experience it in the best way. The era of "Megaton" announcements is long over at this point. Still there is the potential to be surprised by an announcement, but it'll be in some pre-recorded direct video with less instant response from journalists* or the competition. * I mean sadly hand in hand with the death of E3 game journalism has been dying out for years and years too as print media died and the industry died.