Det finns såklart flera orsaker till att E3-mässan ställdes in i år, medan andra even som Gamescom och Tokyo Game Show fortsätter gå som tåget. Summer Games Fest-arrangören Geoff Keighley har ofta anklagats för att ha orsakat mässans nedläggning, men han själv har dock en helt annan teori.
I ett samtal med VGC hade Keighley nämligen följande toeri att bjuda på:
"I think E3 sort of killed itself in a way. I understand why people say [SGF killed E3], but I think if anything, we created Summer Game Fest, and I built Summer Game Fest because I saw the wheels falling off the wagon of E3.
As someone who loves that time of year... for two decades, E3 was part of my life since I was a 15-year-old kid. [From] the first E3 in 1995, I went to every show. I loved it and it defined my summer. It was so exciting to me, and it was heartbreaking to see that start to fall apart. I think they had a relevancy problem, and then they also had a participation problem over the final years. So yeah, I think the question is, if we didn't do Summer Game Fest what would happen?"
Keighley framställer alltså lagom ödmjukt sitt eget evenemang som vår frälsare. Tycker du han har en poäng eller svamlar han i nattmössan?
