Auf Wiedersehen, until next year: Leipzig 2009 set for Aug. 19-23

by Alexander Sliwinski { Aug 25th 2008 at 4:10PM }

The Leipzig Games Convention was apparently a success and is already scheduled to return next year from August 19 to 23. The "final report" by the Leipziger-Messe states that 82.1% of attendees asked for the show to stay in its current location, with more than a third of attendees traveling over 300 kilometers (186 miles) to attend.

The show had 203,000 attendees, with 547 companies exhibiting their wares. Showing that Leipzig is actually becoming of interest to the media as well: 3,800 journalists attended, up from 3,395 in 2007. It'll be interesting to see how Leipzig does next year when it will reportedly have some competition from GamesCOM in Cologne.

Tags: leipzig, leipzig-08, leipzig-09, leipzig-games-convention

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mr Khan @ Aug 25th 2008 4:50PM

Nintendo has expressed interest in attending Cologne

Massmass @ Aug 25th 2008 6:29PM

Someone care to enlighten me as to the purpose of this show? I mean, with the TGS in two months and e3, however crappy, soon before this, is there a need to have another convention? Sure, another part of the world gets to have one, but really, isn't that what the internet is for? It just seems like a waste of money. One show needs to go, for sure. e3 is at the top, natch.