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E3 2023 has been cancelled
This year’s E3 has been cancelled. The announcement was first made in an email from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) to its members, which was then later confirmed publicly.
E3 was initially scheduled to go ahead in June this year at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The cancellation of the event also includes any digital events, as well as physical.
In an official joint statement from the ESA and new event organisers for 2023, ReedPop, E3 “did not garner the sustained interest necessary to execute it in a way that would showcase the size, strength, and impact of our industry.”
E3 is cancelled this year, and it might not ever come back
The last time I covered E3, it was 2015, the year that Sony confirmed Final Fantasy 7 Remake was actually in development. This was an RPG game that people had been speculating about for more than a decade, a game which, by that point, seemed largely the invention of forums and the imaginations of over-optimistic fans. And then there it was. And it was real. And for a second, despite all the pomp, bluster, and occasionally embarrassing on-stage antics for which E3 had become partly known, it was, genuinely, a little bit magic. And now E3 2023 is cancelled, and it seems possible that it may never return.
ESA President Explains Why E3 2023 Got Canceled
The ESA president and CEO Stanley Pierre-Louis gave an interview explaining why E3 2023 was canceled. He largely attributed E3 2023’s demise to a combination of publishers adjusting their marketing plans due to changes in the economy and deciding to run their own digital showcases. Covid-19 also played a part, Pierre-Louis added, in changing game development timelines.
Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Pierre-Louis said,” We were off to a strong start. There was interest among exhibitors, industry players, media and certainly the fans. Ultimately, however, there were challenges that proved too large to surmount.”
“First, several companies have reported that the timeline for game development has been altered since the start of the COVID pandemic. Second, economic headwinds have caused several companies to reassess how they invest in large marketing events. And third, companies are starting to experiment with how to find the right balance between in-person events and digital marketing opportunities,” Pierre-Louis concluded.
Summer gaming events 2023: with E3 cancelled, here’s what’s next
E3 isn’t happening, but the news isn’t stopping.
ESA Head Blames E3 Cancellation on Wider Industry Challenges, Won’t Say If Event Will Return
E3 might be gone, but this summer still has some big gaming events to watch
E3 2023 has been canceled, but that doesn’t mean you won’t have big summer gaming events to look forward to. We’re already aware of at least three things you should mark on your calendar, and it seems like there will be major news of some kind from each one.
Here’s the 2023 summer gaming events that we’re currently aware of. Given that E3 is now officially not happening, it’s possible this list will grow if more companies want to make a splash in June.
- June 8th: Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest. Since 2020, Summer Game Fest has taken E3’s place as the industry’s collective summer news blowout, with reveals like the first gameplay trailer for Elden Ring in 2021 and Naughty Dog’s standalone The Last of Us multiplayer game in 2022….
I never went to E3, but I’ll miss it anyways
It was inevitable that E3 would end this way. Even before the pandemic put a pause on in-person gatherings, the Electronic Entertainment Expo was already on life-support as the larger developers had already put distance between themselves and the event to focus on their own presentations on their own time. And though E3’s eventual cancellation was all but written in stone, I still feel a great sense of loss. Which is odd considering I’ve never been to E3.
I’ve covered it remotely before. It was my first year of freelancing for a small video game wiki site that no longer exists and I was excited because this was, in my freelancer’s eyes, the big leagues. I was covering E-friggin’-3. This was event that I had dreamed of when I first…
E3 2023 Is Canceled Again After Weeks of Speculation – CNET
E3 2023 cancelled due to lack of “sustained interest”
E3 2023 has been cancelled. The Entertainment Software Association announced the news to its members earlier today and confirmed it publicly shortly thereafter. The ESA’s email said that the event “simply did not garner the sustained interest necessary to execute it in a way that would showcase the size, strength, and impact of our industry.”