Tokyo Game Show FTW !!

HE is correct in what he said but he should look at what E3 represents and see that E3 is representing the gaming industry as it is today.

Not like the big names care about the consumers or they wouldn't release games that are alpha beta quality and most the time not playable until they push a patch out months after you've paid top dollar for the game. when they push out online games that don't have chat working or team games that don't have the teaming functions working.

Not like consumer has much say in any of this short of giving up on gaming totaly and spending money else where. Read any games forums and there's posts complaining about how broken the game is.

Fix the gaming industry and E3 will reflect it.

the problem with the games industry is that it is now ruled buy the major's so selling to retail has become the biggest concern of the development managment teams it's like the record industry someone will have a great idea but then the publishers shelve it, can it or roll with it and in all three of these terms the idea becomes inclosed in a cacoon of making money with a great game coming a close second(sometime as). release times have shortend and people are expected to be creative everytime they sit down at a computer, this coupled with work stress and family life?stress makes for lots of clone games or franchises coming out on top of one another plus programing isn't seen as a cool thing to do. it's seen as the preserve of geeky teenage White kids and counterpart Asian kids but this is'nt true, it's for everybody a language that can be learned by anyone. the maths is a different thing but the programming skills machanics in schools worldwide is whats lacking for innovative games and applications. basically programming hasn't hit the streets on mass yet! so yes, the games industry is broken in england and probably elsewhere too.