Do you guys and gals believe those shows will be back next year or that they will realize digital conferences are cheaper ? This might be the end of an era. Business view : Once your "finance advisor" sees that lack of money "loss" in 2020 it'll be tough to budget a million dollar conference in 2021, in large companies their signature is usually mandatory to do any costly project and I'm certain they'll remember that sweet money next year Gamer view : considering they stopped making conferences for us their old customers but only for shareholders or to sell to the potential growth chinese market they don't have a point anymore really, most of the "hype" we had as enthusiast has been crushed by editors despicable behavior in 2018-2019

Might as well go digital from here on out, everything else has.

For some of these conferences all digital really is great. Especially if they have a buy in for all the reviewers etc that would normally attend. I don't want the various tech sites to go under by not getting to look at content first. So say after 2-4 weeks they open up all the digital content to the public. For conferences like CES it's really hard to judge items like TV's especially say via a video of an 8K TV on your 1080p monitor.

JamesSneed:

For some of these conferences all digital really is great. Especially if they have a buy in for all the reviewers etc that would normally attend. I don't want the various tech sites to go under by not getting to look at content first. So say after 2-4 weeks they open up all the digital content to the public. For conferences like CES it's really hard to judge items like TV's especially say via a video of an 8K TV on your 1080p monitor.

I have a list of web sites that I would love to see go under and the people "working" to stay unemployed for eternity [except cleaning toilets, that kind of job I approve for them]: Kotaku, IGN, Polygoon, Gamespot, VERGE, reeeeeeesetera forums and im sure i have at least 10 more less popular but its hard to remember their names.