All the analysts agree: E3 got too big for itself that it eventually collapsed. The E3 Media and Business Summit coming this July and E for All this October are simple spin offs from the normally huge gathering of gamers, media, developers, publishers and even investors, and neither even sound the least bit sizeable anymore.

You know, I think that it got out of hand. I liked it a few years ago. It's gotten to the point where all I could do - if I was lucky- was to attend a few press conferences and meet a handful of management, so there was almost no time on the floor.

I think that the problem that E3 has had is that there were so many constituents they wanted to appeal to. They want to get to the consumer - and then obviously by extension, they want the media to publicize that. They want to get to the financial community - they want their investors to know what they're up to. They want their retailers to know what they're up to, so they're really appealing to all these different kinds of people and it turned into one big event to do that.

And I honestly think that the consumers took over.