Posted 5/2/2008 at 11:25 AM By GamingShogun

According to Kotaku: Her Entertainment, ID Software, and NC Soft will also not be attending the E3 Media & Business Summit this year. The article claims that some of this reason could be due to attendee opinion of the ESA's new President, Mike Gallagher.

From the article:
Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter also believes that the drop-outs are spurred by decisions made by Gallagher, who he says is less knowledgeable and sophisticated than his predecessor, Doug Lowenstein.

'Lowenstein was a very savvy industry veteran who paid attention to the goings-on in the industry and cared what the community had to say,' Pachter said. 'The new person... whose name completely escapes me because I've never met him or heard from him, is far less knowledgeable and sophisticated about this industry than Doug was and is going to make some rookie mistakes.'