Civic Center, Charleston,West Virginia FTW. We have a car show there every year. It's sort of the same thing.

well does'nt make much difference for us non-US citizens unless they decided to hold it in some other country

I think they should split it into 5 different parts to have it run in the five corners of the US

I say that although it hosts no particular value or interest for E3ers, COLUMBUS OH

Either that or the more likely, Seattle.

We can't even go in so it doesn't matter, I do want them to stay in Anaheim though....

E3 is a US based trade show, asking E3 to go out of the US is like asking TGS to be in New York. It doesn't work and it doesn't make sense. Why would US publishers want to promote themselves in a European market, the fact that they're different regions entirely is enough to demonstrate that it would not be beneficial at all. I doubt a US publisher is going to go to Europe to go "hey everyone, you wont be able to play this at all, enjoy!" and dump however much money it takes to go over there.

Other regions are free to host their own shows and they should, if the developers / publishers do not wish to do so then it's a loss for that region.

In regard to car shows, they have auto shows all over the world, they might as well have it in Geneva if we're going on that basis.

The news mill around all this revolves around a private survey sent to all the attendee's this year with a battery of questions about the show, the format, the location and etc. Most sites already have the basic information posted. Honestly it's the format that killed this. Had they downscaled what they already had things would have been fine. No one wants to travel all over a city pressed on time to handle things and attempt to play every game on every corner of the planet in 20mins time.

At this point, none of the current options show anything outside of California. I doubt it's going to change much given their selections and pretty much exact region choices.

If it's in America, it'll probably be somewhere in new york or florida.

Those are the only two places I think they would go. Unless maybe Texas which I doubt. Even if it was across the street from my house I wouldn't go. I can just find out the information I want through the internet. Besides, the games are going to come out eventually so it's not really worth the money.

I think that the decline is partially due to the lack of some very good games or at least good franchises.

MEN Arena Manchester or Old Trafford ftw!

Nah that ain't gonna happen as much as I'd like it to - as VeGi said, it's a US based thing, so getting it here in England would be a no-no.