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Courtesy of ESA
It’s official: E3 has been shut down as the video game industry’s biggest conference and announcement for good.
“After more than two decades of E3, each one better than the last, the time has come to say goodbye. Thank you for the memories,” the Entertainment Software Association, the trade association of video game, he said on his X account on Tuesday.
The decision of the ESA to close the E3 was an event that followed the 2023 edition of the Electronic Entertainment that was canceled after several sports games and companies, including Microsoft and Nintendo, announced that they would not turn up.
The annual trade show for the video game industry is scheduled to take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 13 to 16, 2023. That event is the second attempt by E3 to return to the personal in the in the midst of the disease.
E3 was originally canceled in 2020 amid the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a special edition held in 2021 before returning on its own for 2022. E3 has drawing 65,000 participants and more than 200 shows in past years.
At the same time, E3 faced competition from game companies that are organizing their own events to share news and next-generation products with consumers. And while they also host their own direct-to-consumer events (such as Nintendo’s Directs, Sony’s State of Play events or smaller, indie studios like Spade Knight developer Yacht Club Games’ August news video), the importance of E3 as a personal event was also questioned.