Don't Expect As Many Showcases This Year, Says Geoff Keighley

I honestly just expect the Xbox & Bethesda showcase alongside a Nintendo Direct, not even a Sony showcase since they don’t care about the E3 timeframe since 2019.

This is perfectly fine. I love Capcom but it seems like they only have one or two games ready to show at a time. There isn't anything wrong about that but it did seem like they felt the need to really stretch the presentation out longer than it needed to be. I think this course of action fits their studio output much better.

This doesn't surprise me at all, a lot of the criticism from events last year was well placed and i'm glad some publishers have learnt from that

When E3 was in full gear, there was only really EA, Ubisoft and Bethesda that could hold an hour long conference on their own and even now, some of these bigger publishers seem to be putting out less and less games than they did 5-10 years ago as games are getting more complex and expansive etc

I understand the criticism but I really enjoy these events. If I’m off work or just want to lazy around and see some games coming out from AAA to indie. Kind of sad to see it go this way. Hardly any magazines, conventions stopping. I rather everything get some attention then just the ones that can afford it. And even some of them don’t either. Most industries have events and conventions to get everyone in that career together. Not all marketing can be effectively shown just through social media and interest websites.

I’m wondering when we’ll start hearing about Elden Ring DLC. Still feels a bit early, but hope there’s an announcement by this year’s end.

I prefer the third party showcases. Put all their games in one place instead of giving one or two to each platform's showcase. I always feel misled that a game is exclusive to whichever platform had it in its showcase.

I would personally feel like a multi platform game appearing in xboxs showcase would negatively affect their show. Nothing says we don't have enough exclusive content like showing a game that will be available on other platforms.

That's okay. Gotham Knights and Hogwarts are more than enough for me, and I refuse to get around to new games until 4+ months after they released anyway.

Was also getting tired of Keighley making his shows unofficially taking in too much of the limelight, so any excuse to watch less of his stuff is okay with me. (It's nothing personal: there should just be more unofficial "official" shows, and so far the only prominent people competing with him have relegated themselves to podcasts).

And I think that we also just need less stuff coming out, so that publishers aren't stretching themselves so thinly that they push out rushed crap and set schedule expectations unreasonably high for developers. That all usually has an economic backlash which directly affects the consumer, negatively. (I'm at a loss for succinct words here, oh well).