[quote name='KingDox']I'm pretty sure the developers don't have a say on what girls show up. But those chicks aren't working for free. So the game company must have a budget set aside for promotion. And maybe they can move some of that cash from promotion like booth babes and move it towards development so that I can actually get my hands on a video game I can demo. I'm not asking for the world, just give me one level or one car or one track, something. If the only thing I see at E3 is movies, I may as well never have gone since I can get that crap online at the various video game sites.[/QUOTE]
You're confusing marketing and development. Marketing decides how the booth is set up and how they will go about spending whatever budget they have set aside for it. The development budget is in no way tied to that, so I'm not sure why they would be taking from the development budget when the actual developers don't really have much of a part in the booth decisions. As for the demos, it all depends on where in the development cycle they are at. If they don't have a solid demo to show, they won't have one. It's that simple. Videos are done when no demo is available, but they still want to show off the game. The demos far outweigh the videos from what I've seen, though if you're only seeing videos at E3, you took a wrong turn somewhere.