E3

Video games industry exhibition E3 has been cancelled for the third time in four years, with the ongoing future of the event uncertain as companies choose ...

[The E3 2021 event was held online](/news/2021-06-11/what-is-e3-and-when-can-you-watch-this-year/100161138), but without industry titans Sony and Electronic Arts, which instead held their own digital events. The announcement follows the cancellation of E3 events in 2020 and 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. - E3 events in 2020 and 2022 were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

The 2023 E3 would have been the first in-person expo since COVID-19 began. The event previously marked the time of year when videogame publishers announced ...

This was a difficult decision because of all the effort we and our partners put toward making this event happen, but we had to do what’s right for the industry and what’s right for E3. To add an event listing ADD AN EVENT Are you hosting an event in the Synod that will be of interest to Insights’ readers? For those who did commit to E3 2023, we’re sorry we can’t put on the showcase you deserve and that you’ve come to expect from ReedPop’s event experiences. At the time of writing, no announcement about the future of the event had been made.

Games conference the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) has been cancelled for 2023. The news was confirmed by events company and publisher ReedPop after an ...

We’re certainly going to be listening and ensuring whatever we want to offer meets those needs and at that time, we will have more news to share.” E3 took place as a digitally only event in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Games conference the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) has been cancelled for 2023.

The writing was on the wall, and now it's official. E3 Expo for 2023 has been cancelled by organisers Reedpop and the ESA. E3 2023 was set to be the big ...

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) will not run in 2023, after attempts to revitalise and return the show to a physical form fell short.

‘This was a difficult decision because of all the effort we and our partners put toward making this event happen, but we had to do what’s right for the industry and what’s right for E3. And third, companies are starting to experiment with how to find the right balance between in-person events and digital marketing opportunities.’ No plans for a future E3 show were mentioned. The event has traditionally been a trade and media-only show, but opened its doors to the public in 2017. According to the notice, E3 2023 ‘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.’ EA had also not exhibited at E3 for quite some time.

Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Sega, and Ubisoft have all bailed on E3. This year's E3 is canceled, due to lack of participation and interest.

The ESA attempted both an in-person and digital version of E3 2022, but [both incarnations were canceled](https://www.polygon.com/23005160/e3-2022-canceled-digital-event-esa). The cancellation of E3 2023 — the third scrapped version of the event in recent years — is another distressing indicator of the health of the expo, and the industry’s valuation of it. [Summer Game Fest, will serve as an alternative for game publishers and developers](https://www.polygon.com/23162335/e3-summer-game-fest-2023-clash-analysis) to showcase their wares in June. On Thursday, [IGN](https://www.ign.com/articles/e3-has-been-canceled) reported that E3 organizers reportedly told members that E3 2023 “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.” “This was a difficult decision because of all the effort we and our partners put toward making this event happen, but we had to do what’s right for the industry and what’s right for E3,” said Kyle Marsden-Kish, global VP of gaming at ReedPop, in a news release. Those companies joined console manufacturers Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony [who had previously confirmed they wouldn’t take part in this year’s E3](https://www.polygon.com/23579327/xbox-nintendo-sony-skipping-e3-2023), an event that promised to return the spectacled gaming industry show to Los Angeles for the first time in four years.

Pour one out. Again. - Yesterday the news came that E3 2023 is officially cancelled. The writing had been on the wall for ...

Ironically, it was Nintendo that blazed the trail in demonstrating now an online, tailored presentation targeting your audience Direct-ly could engage and communicate with customers without the expense and logistical headaches (or the risk of embarrassing on-stage gaffes) that come with a live presentation to a conference room of journalists. If [Tears of the Kingdom](games/nintendo-switch/legend_of_zelda_tears_of_the_kingdom) was coming in July, say, a June blowout may have made more sense. "We're committed to providing an industry platform for marketing and convening but we want to make sure we find that right balance that meets the needs of the industry. In truth, this has been the case for a decade or more at this point, and it's the ESA's failure to evaluate and evolve the show years ago that's arguably to blame for its demise now. He talks about "providing a platform that works for the needs of the industry" if E3 is to continue, needs that are "evolving." ["move in a different direction"](https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/03/ubisoft-has-decided-to-skip-e3-2023-will-now-host-its-own-ubisoft-forward-event) shortly before Sega and Tencent [confirmed they were skipping](https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/03/sega-and-tencent-have-also-decided-to-skip-this-years-e3). SGF 2022 also catered to industry and media with a dedicated in-person event, Play Days, that gave journalists the chance to play and report on many of the announced titles. Responding to criticism, the 2021 event was shaved down to six weeks, and the 2022 version took direct aim at E3 (which was cancelled again, of course) with a four-day event running from 9th June featuring And it was in desperate need of refinement; the 2020 debut was an interminably bloated, season-long mishmash of semi-affiliated shows and overlapping announcements that was tough to parse even if you had your finger on the pulse. He's done a tremendous job of wrapping up the gaming calendar for himself while the ESA fumbles on the floor with its trousers around its ankles. Plans would continue — however notionally — but to any industry onlooker, E3 2023 was pretty much dead in the water from that moment. Despite the ESA and ReedPop's stated intentions to

The Verge reports that E3 2023 has officially been canceled. The massive summer show was set to return for the first time since 2019, but the event was ...

E3 was once akin to Christmas for people who love video games, with Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony among the companies that would come together to make their ...

[Elon Musk](https://news.sky.com/topic/elon-musk-6730), [Steven Spielberg](https://news.sky.com/topic/steven-spielberg-6813), Tony Hawk, and the late [Pele](https://news.sky.com/topic/pele-10501). [PlayStation](https://news.sky.com/topic/playstation-8748) maker Sony, Nintendo, and Assassin's Creed developer Ubisoft among the companies to have said they wouldn't be going. [Surprise winner at BAFTA Games Awards](https://news.sky.com/story/god-of-war-ragnarok-sweeps-bafta-games-awards-as-indie-sleeper-hit-vampire-survivors-takes-top-prize-12846025) [Why Hogwarts Legacy was so controversial](https://news.sky.com/story/hogwarts-legacy-why-are-people-boycotting-one-of-the-biggest-games-of-the-year-12790384) [Nintendo](https://news.sky.com/topic/nintendo-8885), Sony and [Microsoft](https://news.sky.com/topic/microsoft-7552) have become used to hosting their own livestreams instead, showing off their new games throughout the year rather than coalescing around a marquee event. [COVID pandemic](https://news.sky.com/topic/coronavirus-8483) and usurped by other initiatives. E3 was once akin to Christmas for people who love video games, with Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony among the companies that would come together to make their biggest announcements of the year.

This year's edition of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) has been canceled. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and show promoter ReedPop ...

[came in at $100 cheaper](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/06/playstation-4-will-be-available-for-399-this-holiday-season/) than the Kinect-powered Xbox One. [hosted its own January hands-on event](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/01/hands-on-with-nintendo-switch-jack-of-all-trades-master-of-some/)in New York City rather than rushing out demos for E3 months earlier. But a larger part recognizes that E3 is a show that was built for a very different game industry and which has utterly failed to change with the times. In [an interview with GamesIndustry.biz](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/e3-2023-is-cancelled-esa-tells-us-why), ESA president and CEO Stanley Pierre-Louis cited economic headwinds, digital marketing opportunities, and COVID-related game development timeline changes as reasons the companies backed out. At E3 2006, the This year's edition of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) has been canceled.

The ESA announced March 30, 2023, that E3 would not take place this year. Video game fans reacted to the news as the end of an era.

But I was in there shooting the breeze with developers from EA Tiburon when I was politely pushed out of the way by a very robust gentleman leading Snoop Dogg’s security detail. I actually did make friends there — people I’d only known online, or as a byline in a peer publication — and it really was heartwarming to meet them in person. That was the real point of E3 — it was a trade show, after all. We do a lot of virtual preview events these days, and while I’m grateful for the chance not only to play a game in development, but to play it in my home, where I’ll actually be playing once it launches, it’s not the same as going into a publisher’s booth — much less playing a series like FIFA with its executive producer, and revealing to him how bad I am at it, actually. But the most important of them were held off-site and preceded the convention itself; E3 was in fact a Tuesday-to-Thursday expo, even if it felt like it began the preceding Saturday. In sports writing, there’s a long tradition of going to the locker room to face those you have ripped in print. My favorite memory from the Los Angeles Convention Center was in 2011, at EA Sports’ booth. It’s up to industry functions like the Game Developers Conference to broker those partnerships now. This was not a sudden death; E3 had been lingering in redundancy, if not irrelevance, for the past four or five years. Then the [COVID-19 pandemic](https://www.polygon.com/2020/3/11/21165383/e3-2020-canceled-coronavirus) finished off [what remained](https://www.polygon.com/22369630/e3-2021-date-announced-nintendo-xbox-capcom-ubisoft). The hobnobbery and relationship-building, pairing up-and-coming developers and their projects with publishers? [the effective demise of E3](https://www.polygon.com/23661641/e3-2023-canceled), the Electronic Entertainment Expo, which blacked out a week on serious video game fans’ calendars every June over the past 27 years.

E3 2023 is no more. The ESA has announced that the June expo has been cancelled following the withdrawal of several major video game publishers.

Perhaps the ESA can rethink the nature of the expo and bring it back in a new and updated form that works better for everyone. This was a difficult decision because of all the effort we and our partners put toward making this event happen, but we had to do what’s right for the industry and what’s right for E3. I understand why the internet has made it easy for companies to just drop game reveals at any time on their own terms, but it’s rarely as exciting as during a big presentation with a stage and an audience and announcers and an orchestra and all the fanfare. Whatever E3 once was, the version of the expo that was headed to LA in June was something else entirely. But this was also the first year that E3 was opened to the public, which fundamentally changed the nature of the expo, making it far more crowded and difficult to navigate, especially in LA. Certainly the future of E3 looks very bleak at this point.