52K people attended E3 2015, up 3K over 2014 — next year’s show dates revealed

LOS ANGELES — The Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow brought together a huge number of developers, publishers, and media into the Los Angeles Convention Center in Southern California.

The Entertainment Software Association group, which organizes E3, revealed that more than 52,200 people attended the event. That includes gaming professionals from over 100 different countries who came to see more than 1,600 different products from 300 companies. This is up around 3,000 from last year’s total of 48,900 attendees — although that is potentially misleading, as the ESA invited in 5,000 non-professional gaming fans to the event for the first time ever. As part of this announcement, the ESA also announced that E3 2016 is June 14 through June 16 next year at the same site, the Los Angeles Convention Center.