ESA president says not to expect E3 2009 to be open to the public

In this interview with Joystiq, ESA president and CEO Mike Gallagher said not to expect any forthcoming announcement that E3 (announced yesterday) will be open to the public next year.

From the interview:

Is it out of the realm of possibility that we'll still see public dates announced later?

MG: I wouldn't expect that.

That kind of closes that door, we reckon. However, further down, Gallagher doesn't rule out the return of booth babes, but stresses there will be "standards".

Full thing through the link.