Is the industry spaced out?

Everyone who's anyone was at E3 in the States last week. Our man inLA, Andrew Charlesworth reports on the latest developments.

Games console hardware may have stolen the show at E3 last week, with N64 hype and the Saturn versus Playstation price battle dominating the headlines, but there were few stands not showing a range of new CD-ROM titles - more than 1,700 were launched or previewed.

Many of the companies which contributed to this avalanche of silver disks were showing all the products which they will churn out between now and Christmas, so it is not as if all 1,700 will appear on the market at once, but the sheer volume begs the question - where will the shelf space come from?