I was wondering if the change of dates, especially not having the Sunday anymore, would impact the attendance numbers negatively, but it seemingly had no effect, or it might have even helped that slight growth in attendance. It seems to have reach its critical mass a few years ago now. I went and pulled the attendance numbers from the previous years, to see how gamescom is doing in that regard.
The limited Scorpio edition also got decent coverage, but it seems to me it is more a sign of how light the event was in content. They actually held their best game announcement for the following day, revealing a new Age of Empires is coming. They only announced one new game for Xbox, Jurassic World Evolution, and it is not a very strong fit for a console genre-wise. The Microsoft event seemed very weak to me. For reference, the last time Sony had a press event at gamescom was in 2014 while Microsoft skipped last year. Microsoft kind-of had a press event? It was more similar to the Nintendo Direct format, with no onsite event, just a live video event being streamed. For professionals (at least the ones coming from Europe), it has the advantage of covering the work week, you can easily be back home on Friday. Moreover, it now starts on Tuesday instead of Wednesday, and ends on the Saturday rather than the Sunday. gamescom 2017 New datesĪs for the last 3 years in a row, the dates have changed, with gamescom roughly a week later than the previous year. I will reference data from previous years (some slightly adjusted), as this exercise has been done now for 2014, 20. This is the week after gamescom, and as is tradition, I have some numbers to share about the event.