Industry gives two thumbs up to E3 2009

Seems like I wasn’t the only one of the opinion that E3 made a splashy comeback with this year’s event. Industry bigwigs also expressed their satisfaction with how it averted near-disaster, and giving a great show despite the pull-out of some companies, as well as the threat of the A-H1N1 virus. Check out what some of the industry personalities had to say about E3 2009 after the jump.

Here are some of the industry personalities that gave their two-thumbs up to E3 2009:

Shane Kim, Microsoft Xbox corporate VP: It’s great to see it back. We’re an entertainment business and we should act and talk like an entertainment business.

Ben Feder, Take-Two Interactive CEO: We couldn’t be happier, the energy in this room is unbelievable. The business is growing, the industry is growing. Every passing year there is more and more interest in the interactive entertainment business and I don’t see this disappearing in the economic environment. I just see it growing from year to year.

Gray Dunn, Sega Europe Development Director: I think they’ve hit the sweet spot this year, to be honest. The previous couple of years were very low key, but before that it was huge and probably over subscribed.

John Tsui, Robomodo Director: I saw a picture of E3 last year and it just looked so sad. This industry is so big that to not have one big gathering of a combination of developers, publishers, press, retailers and buyers was a real shame. It’s so great to have it back. On the development side of things it kicks us in the ass to get more stuff done by a certain date. We got a lot done in the last few weeks. I always joke, but there should be four of these gatherings a year, because if they do that, games would always be on time and on budget.

All concur.

Via Games Industry

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