April 1, 20233 yr Entertainment Software Association (ESA) Cancels E3 2023 Event due to Lack of Industry Support (guru3d.com) The industry is having a bad time and it could get worse. Micron Loses $2.312 Billion as Demand for DRAM and 3D NAND Nosedives | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com) Edited April 1, 20233 yr by G-RFRY Raymond Fry.
April 1, 20233 yr The economy may have been the final nail in the coffin, but more flexibility and control thanks to he internet and social media are the main reasons E3 died (this has been coming for several years now). Why be limited by a somewhat arbitrary date to announce or launch new hardware and games when you can do it at a time of your own choosing? https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/03/how-the-internet-killed-e3/
April 1, 20233 yr Hard to feel sorry for the tech industry. They took the whole world for a ride during Covid and the Bitcoin interregnum, and charged us through the nose for graphics cards and anything else they could, with no remorse. (Still doing it) People walked away, slowly, then faster and faster, and here we are, with the economy driving perhaps the final nail in the coffin. Maybe the bubble bursting will herald a return to sanity. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
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