Nintendo will not be attending E3 2023, in response to a brand new report from IGN. The hand held hitmaker is skipping the ESA’s first bodily E3 occasion in 4 years, together with Xbox and Sony. The ESA has responded, which you’ll learn under.
Nintendo’s E3 2023 absence is reportedly as a result of a lightweight launch schedule within the second half of the 12 months, in response to VGC and corroborated by IGN. Xbox nonetheless has plans for a bodily occasion within the Los Angeles Conference Centre the weekend earlier than the present.
Whereas Nintendo supposedly has a lightweight launch line-up for the second half of the 12 months, it might nonetheless have a summer season Nintendo Direct across the identical time as E3, because it has executed for years. Sony hasn’t attended E3 since 2018, after 23 years of consecutive showings.
The ESA has responded to the report. Right here’s an excerpt:
“E3 has a wealthy historical past inside our business, and we’re at all times heartened to really feel the eagerness for the present and listen to what it means to totally different folks. Reviving a tradeshow after a three-year hiatus and a worldwide pandemic was at all times going to have its challenges, which is why we carried out an in depth search (in session with the ESA member firms) to determine the very best associate to supply E3. In deciding on ReedPOP as our associate, we now have been in a position to faucet into their wealthy historical past of internet hosting widespread business occasions, like PAX, and broader client exhibits, like Comedian Con.”
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