It's expected that by that time there will be a vaccine, a simple vaccination proof for registration to the show should be something sensible to get in.
Vaccines aren't perfect. A show like CES needs to be certain it can take place months in advance, or be able to get insurance at a reasonable price to cover it in case it can't. Otherwise, if it doesn't work out, the event would likely incur significant costs that would cripple it as a going concern.
The real question is whether there will be a CES at all, after people have found out how well they do while not spending budget on a big trip to show off to other marketing staff and journalists.
Yeah, this is the real thing. Big players can get press coverage outside of these kind of events, so once they realize the bang-for-buck isn't actually there they don't tend to go back. E3's recent years are a good example.
HUMAN INTERACTION VERBODEN, HIDE BEHIND YOUR SCREEN TO CONSUME PRODUCT CITIZEN!!!!
This will be the death of CES. It was already on a slow decline, like a dementia patient. Now it's gonna slide down HARD. What incentive is there for any big tech company to put hundreds of thousands into CES when they can just put up a youtube video, send product to the like of anandtech or techspot for review, put out the word on social media, ece?
The same thing happened with E3. E3 is a nothingburger now, most of the big dogs have their own shows before or during E3 and the little players have massive word of mouth via the internet.
The biggest advantage of CES is the hype building of having a bunch of people together to talk about a product. In an all virtual world this effect is lost, and CES just becomes another website.
Events like these have already been on the decline for a few years anyway so I wouldn't be surprised to see CES never return as an in-person event and I wouldn't be surprised if it does return for it to be significantly diminished in significance in such a way that it never recovers.
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Peskarik - Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - link
Like I said before, Computex is done. CES is also done. Returning in 2022? Yeah, good luck with that (not gonna happen).Andrei Frumusanu - Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - link
It's expected that by that time there will be a vaccine, a simple vaccination proof for registration to the show should be something sensible to get in.GreenReaper - Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - link
Vaccines aren't perfect. A show like CES needs to be certain it can take place months in advance, or be able to get insurance at a reasonable price to cover it in case it can't. Otherwise, if it doesn't work out, the event would likely incur significant costs that would cripple it as a going concern.The real question is whether there will be a CES at all, after people have found out how well they do while not spending budget on a big trip to show off to other marketing staff and journalists.
A5 - Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - link
Yeah, this is the real thing. Big players can get press coverage outside of these kind of events, so once they realize the bang-for-buck isn't actually there they don't tend to go back. E3's recent years are a good example.GreenReaper - Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - link
Not surprised, Further Confusion and JMoF also moved to 2022 in the last month.Google et. al. had to reconfigure their event rich data syntax to account for all the cancellations:
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-typ...
AusMatt - Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - link
"SARC-CoV-2"? I think you mean "SARS-CoV-2".xdddddddddddddddddddd - Wednesday, July 29, 2020 - link
SACK-CinV-2wr3zzz - Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - link
Is CES still CES if it's all digital? Without the crowd and behind the scene networking it's just YouTube.nathanddrews - Friday, July 31, 2020 - link
I can't wait to see the latest 8K displays recorded on an iPhone, compressed to YouTube 4K, scaled down to my 1080p phone. #CESTheinsanegamerN - Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - link
HUMAN INTERACTION VERBODEN, HIDE BEHIND YOUR SCREEN TO CONSUME PRODUCT CITIZEN!!!!This will be the death of CES. It was already on a slow decline, like a dementia patient. Now it's gonna slide down HARD. What incentive is there for any big tech company to put hundreds of thousands into CES when they can just put up a youtube video, send product to the like of anandtech or techspot for review, put out the word on social media, ece?
The same thing happened with E3. E3 is a nothingburger now, most of the big dogs have their own shows before or during E3 and the little players have massive word of mouth via the internet.
The biggest advantage of CES is the hype building of having a bunch of people together to talk about a product. In an all virtual world this effect is lost, and CES just becomes another website.
PeachNCream - Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - link
Events like these have already been on the decline for a few years anyway so I wouldn't be surprised to see CES never return as an in-person event and I wouldn't be surprised if it does return for it to be significantly diminished in significance in such a way that it never recovers.TristanSDX - Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - link
nothing really lost. Just show for prototypes, where 90% of then never go to mass production