Chicago would be nice. Given all the possible venues here, I think it would be a lot of fun, and also has a large international airport for easy access from all the participating countries, not to mention it's more equidistant.
New York would be awful. Just too much money. It would greatly reduce the amount of people that show up.
Chicago might work.
New Orleans would be challenging.
SF would be ideal due to the amount of publishers with offices in the city or surrounding area, but it is limited in Convention Space to hold something the size of E3.
Ah, I actually live here so i've never actually dealt with that kind of (specific) stuff before. Besides staying at a place in the city though, there's lots of places in the suburbs to stay at for way cheaper, and it's only a quick 20-minute $2.25 train ride away to get right into the city fast too.Yep. I loved Chicago in the CES days. McCormick place was a decent venue as I remember it.
For restaurants, Thai Star (closed now), Arun's, Strats were all great places to eat, and of course Pizzaria Due and Uno. One of the CES parties was a tour on the lake almost every year, and that was always fun.
The only thing I really, really, really didn't like is EVERYONE downtown had their hand out for a tip. Practially as bad as you drop a paper in the hotel lobby and the concierge picks it up for you, he'll have his hand out. And I mean literally hand out. It's the only city I've been to in the world where it's this pervasive and in your face. It's a bit shocking initially, but it's really a tiny niggle in an overall great experience. Love the city. Love to go back there for an E3.
Ah, I actually live here so i've never actually dealt with that kind of (specific) stuff before. Besides staying at a place in the city though, there's lots of places in the suburbs to stay at for way cheaper, and it's only a quick 20-minute $2.25 train ride away to get right into the city fast too.
Who cares, it'll be terrible anyway.
Who cares, it'll be terrible anyway.
With most-likely two new console hardware unveilings it should be the most memorable E3 in years.
I'm sure New Orleans and their gang of hookers will secure another venue.
Just go all out and bring it to Birmingham, would be equal to nuking the city.I for one hope it never returns to Atlanta. There's a reason it wasn't in ATL very long.
I live in Atlanta. It would be a disaster.
Toronto, damnit.
Come to meee e3, come to me
Back to Atlanta plz
EDIT: Wow, it seems that they closed the 1848 House Restaurant and tore it down. What a shame. It was a GREAT place, and haunted, to boot. Here's a picture of it:
hell yeah, id make the trip for this one!
id not get in the doors, but still
ahaha, if ATL is hot i guess its good they never had it down in miami, vic. still, that place looks like it was awesome.
Wouldn't be surprised if Miami was cooler in the summer than Atlanta.
having lived in both, there's some seasons you might be right, but i think we beat them on humidity.
which is to say we lose, cause fuck its hot
Lol at Shitcago. Do you want to get shot?Oh hell no.
Atlanta was AWFUL for E3. Freight was expensive and it was HOT and very sticky due to humidity. I wasn't a huge fan of the venue, either.
However, my favorite thing about Hotlanta was the fireflies. I had never seen them in real life and we went to a restaurant called the 1848 House in the suburbs for a business dinner one night and they were *everywhere* in the back yard. There were 20 or 30 grown people from all over the world wandering around the huge backyard in business attire squealing (well kind of a cross between that and oohing and ahhing) and laughing like children after dinner. It's a great memory, but I wouldn't do E3 in Atlanta to do it again.
Chicago like the old Summer CES might be cool, but I think something like Las Vegas is more probable.
EDIT: Wow, it seems that they closed the 1848 House Restaurant and tore it down. What a shame. It was a GREAT place, and haunted, to boot. Here's a picture of it:
LOL that aint happening.Open to the public + a much bigger venue?
Be somewhere in the midwest please.
With most-likely two new console hardware unveilings it should be the most memorable E3 in years.
God this would be awesome..I'd love to have 2 e3 a year, one in USA and one in Europe.
And Sony back then :/Console unveiling doesn't automatically mean anything interesting. We learned that from Nintendo...twice.