E3 1999 Coverage

NVIDIA, Hercules, and Diamond

Although scheduled to display their goods, both NVIDIA and Hercules pulled out of the show at the last minute. The areas designated for those booths were just completely empty. No word on why this happened exactly.

Diamond was not scheduled to be there and thus wasn't, but a number of developers featured Diamond V770 TNT2 boards in their game demonstrations.

Conclusion

This year's E3 was a little more subdued than past years, especially on the hardware front where very little that was new was shown. This is no surprise since gaming truly is the focus of E3 and hardware manufacturers generally do not gear up for a big show at E3. Nevertheless, there was a lot to be seen and was well worth the tired feet at the end of the day.