That is what they have been accused of doing ten years in the past, solely now it seems to be really true.
If E3 is to be revived, it apparently is not going to be with Nintendo within the LA Conference Middle.
A number of sources have confirmed to IGN that Nintendo, together with their console opponents Sony and Microsoft, is not going to have a presence on the 2023 occasion that was deliberate for June 13 – 16 in Los Angeles. The occasion was to be run by ReedPop (who run the PAX expos amongst different occasions in addition to personal retailers resembling Eurogamer) in affiliation with the sport business’s commerce group, the Digital Software program Affiliation.
E3 2023 was to be the return to an in-person occasion following a 3 12 months absence as a result of COVID-19 pandemic and different elements, although the ESA did try to carry a sequence of on-line showcase occasions in 2021. Sony had not attended the final pre-pandemic E3 present in 2019, whereas on the similar time Microsoft had the Xbox present ground on the Microsoft Theater situated in the identical complicated because the host venue for E3, the Los Angeles Conference Middle. Microsoft has already introduced plans for a summer season, in-person occasion, however has not given location particulars but.
Nintendo might elect to carry a Direct to coincide with the occasion in June, although this isn’t assured; there was no devoted Nintendo occasion in 2020, and June 2022 noticed a Direct devoted to Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and a Accomplice Showcase six days aside in late June. The final “E3 Direct” from Nintendo was in 2021.