I find it more exciting when news drops randomly throughout the year, like Directs, Sony state of plays etc rather than 1 event full of CG trailers a year.
Every day could be a gamer christmas
Indeed, that's how I've felt for a long time now. Would much rather have stuff spread out across the year, being able to pop up any time and be completely surprised and caught off-guard, than have a predefined time frame for the big stuff.
Plus, the thing is, E3 is indeed often compared to Christmas and stuff, but that's the thing... It's compared to such because of just how many announcements happen. And while that is cool, at the same time in it's own way, like, is that really a good thing to begin with? Because for like the super-AAA stuff, it doesn't really matter, but that's the thing, they'll be fine pretty much whenever they're announced. Everything else can easily, incredibly easily get lost in the shuffle though.
And obvious that's a problem that's likely impossible to completely solve.
But spreading things out, not having everything condensed to one huge "gamer Christmas" but spread out through numerous events throughout the year, in smaller bursts here and there, would certainly help at least a bit with that I feel.
Like, let me put it another way. Especially in recent years, it's become a trend on sites like this one to have "spoiler-free" threads for E3 for people to hang out in so they aren't spoiled on any announcements. It's easy to go onto tangents about "has spoiler culture got too far???" based on that, but why do people do that with E3 more than any other event, even moreso than things like Nintendo Directs? Because of course of the sheer number of things that are announced at E3 where many people want to, but just don't have the time to take that much in all at once and have to spread it out anyway, in their own ways.
There's just so much to take in, they need a spoiler-free thread to hunker down in, until they're able to actually do so. Even when people love it anyway, that's the thing, it really is a lot all at once (and of course, this is just as a fan it can be overwhelming. Really can't begin to imagine what it's like for the gaming press who have to try their best to actually report on all of that stuff as best as they're able).
Spread it all out over the year in the first place, not so necessary anymore, less to worry about in terms of stuff like that.
But yeah, that's how I've felt about this type of thing for years now, so if that's indeed the way things are going, I'd be more than okay with that.