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The DeanBeat: The best of CES 2021 as seen from afar

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 9 min

Last year at CES 2020, I walked more than 37.45 miles (over 84,385 steps) to scout for the best ideas and products of the show. This week, for CES 2021, I walked about 20 feet to the fridge and 20 more feet to the bathroom and back to my home office repeatedly as I covered the all-digital event.

The pandemic sucks. But the event had more than 1,900 exhibitors (down from 4,000 last year), and I got a good look at them, in between all of my duties to get ready for our own digital event (GamesBeat Summit on January 26 to January 28). I missed walking all over the place and hitting parties at Las Vegas nightclubs that would otherwise not let me in.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.