Microsoft, Nintendo, Ubisoft and different main gamers within the recreation business have all confirmed that they’d don’t have any presence on the E3 2023 present flooring. Now the occasion itself will not occur in any respect.

In line with IGN, the Leisure Software program Affiliation has begun notifying members that whereas the present “stays a beloved occasion and model,” the plans for E3 2023 “merely didn’t garner the sustained curiosity essential to execute it in a manner that might showcase the dimensions, power and impression our business.” 

The ESA has additionally printed a press release from ReedPop’s International VP of Gaming, Kyle Marsden-Kish:

This was a tough determination due to all the hassle we and our companions put towards making this occasion occur, however we needed to do what’s proper for the business and what’s proper for E3. We admire and perceive that firms wouldn’t have playable demos prepared and that resourcing challenges made being at E3 this summer time an impediment they couldn’t overcome. For individuals who did decide to E3 2023, we’re sorry we will’t placed on the showcase you deserve and that you just’ve come to anticipate from ReedPop’s occasion experiences.

The occasion was speculated to run from June thirteenth to sixteenth in Los Angeles, and would have been the primary in-person E3 occasion since 2019.

Whereas the occasion could also be cancelled, there’ll seemingly nonetheless be loads of online game information to stay up for in June: Ubisoft beforehand introduced that it will be internet hosting its personal occasion across the identical time, and Nintendo and PlayStation usually run digital occasions of their very own in June. Microsoft beforehand pledged to be a part of E3’s digital present, and should still have bulletins regardless of the dearth of an E3 occasion itself. And, in fact, there’s all the time Geoff Keighley’s Summer time Sport Fest on June eighth in Los Angeles, albeit with out the competitors. 

Engadget has reached out to the ESA for remark.

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