E3

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.

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, has canceled its 2023 event. E3 was previously scheduled to take place June 13-16 at the Los Angeles Convention ...

“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, ReedPop’s global VP of gaming. Microsoft announced it would not be on the show floor but would co-stream its Xbox Games Showcase as part of E3 Digital. The expo held a virtual edition in 2021.

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, colloquially known as E3, has officially cancelled its 2023 event. This would have been the first E3 since 2019.

E3, which once focused heavily on gaming retail, has faced a challenge with a shift to digital storefronts and the rise of online, trailer-focused gaming events. The latter is also produced by ReedPop and hosts events in Seattle and Boston that are said to attract more than 100,000 attendees, although it is unclear if that number is daily breakdown or a cumulative figure. E3 typically brought in more than 65,000 fans and industry professionals to the Los Angeles Convention Center and surrounding events every summer. E3’s four-day, online-only gala in 2021 [was low on video game razzmatazz](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-06-16/nintendos-big-reveal-and-the-hype-storylines-and-mysteries-of-e3-2021) and buzz was split among the two, trailer preview-focused events. The Electronic Entertainment Expo, colloquially known as E3, was canceled Thursday months before it was to open at the Los Angeles Convention Center celebration in June. E3’s cancellation leaves a giant hole on Los Angeles’ summer convention calendar, and without what was once a signature event.

While the show had become increasingly irrelevant, that wasn't all the show's fault.

They don’t need to walk journalists around for three days answering questions that may be occasionally uncomfortable when they can just get influencers to hype their games live on Twitch and YouTube. At its peak—whenever you think that was across its various locations and decades—E3 ran for just a handful of days, but in that time hundreds of major announcements would be made, from new hardware to AAA reveals, and each of them would be vying for the public’s attention. [Like we’ve said before, there’s nothing major video games companies like more than being able to control the entire process of making a sale](https://kotaku.com/stop-preordering-video-games-1713802537?rev=1680215124405), from announcement to pre-order. They don’t need to pay for big E3 press conferences anymore, they can just film their own presentations and show them on a day when there’s no competing news. If there was one thing that defined E3 beyond “press conferences”, it would be that every event, and every show, had its own list of “winners” and “losers”, drawn up by forum posters and international media alike. Why on earth would any major company want to risk being a gladiator?

Throw in the fact series creator Shigeru Miyamoto wandered on-stage with a quality Master Sword and Hylian Shield and you've got maybe Nintendo's strongest ever ...

In 1995, Sony’s Steve Race walks to the podium, says a single word (announcing the launch price of the PlayStation) and walks off to a room full of applause. Which is good for business, but it’s a shame in some ways for the rest of us, since as the show has grown ever more professional we’ve been deprived of memorable/terrible moments like these. Bless him for having the courage to try, but it was not. Imagine then working for a company that isn’t Nintendo but gets the once-in-a-lifetime chance to make a Nintendo game. Long before the disaster of $599 or the triumph of $499, Sony made the most memorable price announcement of all time. [which is still around!](http://www.nintendojo.com/)—thought it would be a good idea to ask Shigeru Miyamoto a question in Japanese. As if Miyamoto’s antics weren’t enough, E3 2004 also the public debut of the Reggie Fils-Aime. E3 has always been so much about manufactured excitement that in 2019, when Ikumi Nakamura took to the stage to talk about Ghostwire: Protocol, she damn near stole the entire week’s show with some actual, bonafide enthusiasm. Throw in the fact series creator Shigeru Miyamoto wandered on-stage with a quality Master Sword and Hylian Shield and you’ve got maybe Nintendo’s strongest ever E3 performance. So pull up a chair and bask in all this E3 glory. [ E3 2023 was just canceled](https://kotaku.com/when-is-e3-canceled-electronic-expo-summer-games-fest-1850285081) after a few years of virtual productions in the face of the covid-19 pandemic. The moments where the show itself became the spectacle, and not the games we were being sold.

L'E3 n'avait pas eu lieu en 2020 pour cause de pandémie, avant de revenir sous forme entièrement virtuelle l'année suivante, puis d'être à nouveau mis entre ...

La société événementielle ReedPop, chargée de la mise en place du salon par l’Association des logiciels de divertissement (ESA), a indiqué, sur le site officiel de l’E3, que l’annulation concernait l’ensemble du programme, en présentiel ou en ligne, initialement prévu du 13 au 16 juin. D’autres grands rendez-vous ont néanmoins réussi le pari du retour en présentiel après la pandémie, notamment la Paris Games Week, qui a attiré 150 000 visiteurs début novembre Porte de Versailles, ou le Tokyo Game Show, visité par près de 140 000 personnes, en septembre 2022. (New York) L’édition 2023 du salon américain des jeux vidéo E3, l’un des principaux évènements mondiaux de l’industrie, a été annulée, ont annoncé jeudi les organisateurs, qui ont laissé planer le doute sur les prochaines éditions.

E3 2023 is cancelled, and the gaming industry is mourning. E3 just doesn't seem to fit the needs of the industry anymore, and so the industry has moved on.

But after Microsoft opted out of this year’s show floor in favor of its own showcase in Los Angeles [around Starfield](https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/8/23500202/starfield-release-date-xbox-bethesda), it felt like the writing was on the wall. [all-digital Summer Game Fest in June 2020](https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/1/21243981/summer-game-fest-news-events-geoff-keighley-sony-microsoft), and he’s since hosted one every year as a venue for E3-like gaming bombshells. [skipped E3 2019](https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/15/18097441/sony-playstation-skipping-e3-2019-keynote-booth) in favor of hosting its own video presentations at different times throughout the year. Even in the United States, last week’s Like [my colleague Ash Parrish](https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/30/23663862/e3-2023-cancelled-esa-reedpop), I’ve always wanted to go, but don’t think I’ll ever get the chance; the industry has changed enough that it’s probably not coming back. But even execs have been forced to figure out how to do those things remotely during the pandemic, and may not need it anymore. Why bother to show new hardware at E3 in the future? Yet even without E3 as an anchor, developers and publishers have found ways to make a splash that don’t include the investment required for a big booth on the expo show floor. Nintendo had already said that it wouldn’t be participating in E3 [this year](https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/24/23613605/nintendo-e3-not-attending-show-2023), and while that doesn’t preclude the company from making news in June, it might be content to let [The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom do the talking](https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23658228/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-gameplay-trailer-nintendo-switch). I’m not saying in-person conventions are dead. Then, they can send journalists software over the internet, no need to wait for a locked-down demo console. [was in 2019](https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/14/18678266/e3-2019-biggest-news-google-zelda-xbox-nintendo-avengers-cyberpunk); the event was [cancelled in 2020](https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/11/21163570/e3-canceled-coronavirus-outbreak-xbox-nintendo), held as [a digital show in 2021](https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/12/22531138/e3-2021-summer-game-fest-news-announcements), and bounced from in person [to online-only](https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/6/22870913/e3-2022-online-virtual-event-covid-19-pandemic-omicron) and finally to [fully cancelled last year in 2022](https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/31/23005138/e3-2022-online-virtual-event-canceled-covid-19).

E3, ReedPop's annual trade event for the video game industry, has canceled its 2023 iteration.

E3 has drawn as many as 65,000 attendees and over 200 exhibitors in past editions. “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.” And in February, after Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot suggested on an earnings call that E3 may not be happening this year, president of ReedPop Lance Fensterman But that edition We appreciate and understand that interested companies wouldn’t have playable demos ready and that resourcing challenges made being at E3 this summer an obstacle they couldn’t overcome,” Marsden-Kish said. [was canceled](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/e3-2022-canceled-return-2023-1235123196/) both as an in-person and virtual event. [told The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/16/23603153/e3-2023-expo-reedpop-ubisoft-ceo-yves-guillemot) the show was still “full speed ahead,” with confirmed exhibitors. ReedPop’s annual trade event for the video game industry has canceled its 2023 iteration, which was set to take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 13-16. In a [statement to The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/30/23660456/e3-2023-canceled), ReedPop’s global VP of [gaming](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/gaming/) Kyle Marsden-Kish said the issue was “resourcing challenges.” [obtained by IGN](https://www.ign.com/articles/e3-has-been-canceled) and confirmed to the outlet by two sources close to the organization, E3’s 2023 version “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.” [E3](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/e3/).

Plusieurs éditeurs tels qu'Ubisoft ou Sega avaient récemment annoncé leur absence à la "grand-messe du jeu vidéo" pour organiser leurs propres événements.

Cette année devait marquer le grand retour du premier salon mondial de jeux vidéo. Initialement prévue du 13 au 16 juin prochain, l'édition 2023 de l'E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) n'aura finalement pas lieu. [précédentes éditions annulées en raison de la crise sanitaire liée au Covid-19](/economie/replay-emissions/tech-and-co/jeux-video-l-e3-2022-annule_VN-202204040657.html).

Ce n'était qu'une question de temps, mais c'est désormais officiel: le E3 2023 n'aura pas lieu. En fait, considérant les défis auxquels l'Entertainment ...

De plus, la conjoncture économique actuelle a forcé les compagnies à revoir le montant qu’elles allouaient aux événements de grande envergure. En effet, dans un communiqué, les organisateurs affirment qu’ils continueront à travailler sur de futures itérations du salon. Ce n’était qu’une question de temps, mais c’est désormais officiel: le E3 2023 n’aura pas lieu.

Triste nouvelle aujourd'hui pour les amateurs qui attendaient avec impatience le retour de l'exposition E3. En effet, aujourd'hui Red Pop et Entertainment ...

Dans un courriel adressé par l'Association des logiciels de divertissement (ESA) à ses membres, l'organisation a expliqué que l'édition 2023 «n'avait pas ...

Xbox, Sony, Nintendo, ou encore l'éditeur français Ubisoft avaient tous choisi de ne pas se rendre à l'E3 cette année, et ce avant l'annulation. Les organisateurs n'ont pas communiqué publiquement de motifs pour justifier leur décision. [jeux vidéo](https://www.lefigaro.fr/jeux-video) E3, l'un des principaux événements mondiaux de l'industrie, a été annulée, ont annoncé jeudi les organisateurs, qui ont laissé planer le doute sur les prochaines éditions.

Streaming and event competition has blunted E3's standing as the premier U.S. video game showcase.

However, after [all three big console makers](https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-nintendo-sony-skipping-e3-2023) declined to attend, an increasing number of high-profile gaming companies followed suit. "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.” [promised to return](https://www.axios.com/2022/03/31/e3-2022-canceled) this year. Why it matters: An in-person E3 has not been held in since 2019. [A tweet](https://twitter.com/E3/status/1641546610218811393)from the E3 account said the cancellation ecompasses “both the digital and physical events.” [has been cancelled for 2023](https://twitter.com/E3/status/1641546610218811393), according to the Entertainment Software Association and show organizer ReedPop.

Ca sentait le roussi depuis quelque temps et les organisateurs viennent de l'officialiser : l'E3 2023 n'aura finalement pas lieu, en physique comme en ...

De son côté, le jeu vidéo s'est aussi adapté et il n'y a qu'à voir le Summer Game Fest de Geoff Keighley (aussi à la tête des Game Awards) pour comprendre qu'un passage de flambeau s'est effectué, au grand dam d'un E3 qui n'a pas su s'adapter. Et troisièmement, les entreprises commencent à expérimenter comment trouver le bon équilibre entre les événements physiques et les opportunités de marketing numérique. Même si l'ESA, l'organisation derrière l'E3, nous garantissait que le salon ferait cette année son grand retour en physique, l'affaire semblait tout de même compliquée à réaliser.

Après plusieurs semaines de rumeurs et de nombreux acteurs de l'industrie du jeu annonçant leur défection, l'E3 2023 est officiellement annulé. Partager

[PAX](https://www.jeuxonline.info/societe/PAX) et autres Comic Con (des rendez-vous très communautaires et grand public) et par les événements numériques dont le Summer Game Fest est sans doute le point d’orgue, offrant une visibilité croissante aux participants. Dans les colonnes de [GamesIndustry](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/e3-2023-is-cancelled-esa-tells-us-why?mc_cid=358748aae8&mc_eid=8180ddf2bf), l’ESA indique réfléchir encore à l’opportunité ou non d’organiser une édition 2024 – le syndicat américain des éditeurs de jeux a un an pour trouver le bon format pour son événement. Cette édition 2023 n’aura finalement pas lieu : après plusieurs semaines de rumeurs, l’ [ESA](https://www.jeuxonline.info/societe/ESA) et l’organisateur ReedPop annoncent officiellement l’annulation du salon cette année encore. On le sait, historiquement, l’E3 était un salon semi-professionnel ouvert aux acteurs de l’industrie et à la presse, puis aux influenceurs. Un format pertinent à une lointaine époque où ces différents acteurs avaient besoin d’événements spécifiques pour se rencontrer physiquement ; un format qui se révèle bien moins pertinent aujourd’hui à l’heure des interactions numériques incessantes et des rendez-vous en ligne, tout aussi efficaces et bien moins coûteux – encore accentués par les « nouveaux » usages post-pandémie. En lieu et place de l’E3 du 13 au 16 juin, on retiendra que le Summer Game Fest 2023 se tiendra le 8 juin avec des annonces de la plupart des acteurs de l’industrie, que Microsoft organisera un Xbox Games Showcase le 11 juin, qu’Ubisoft proposera un Ubisoft Forward Live le 12 juin, etc.

L'édition 2023 de l'Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), le Salon américain des jeux vidéo, l'un des principaux événements mondiaux de l'industrie, ...

[la Paris Games Week qui a attiré 150 000 visiteurs au début de novembre porte de Versailles](https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2022/11/05/a-la-paris-games-week-le-gouvernement-affiche-son-engouement-pour-le-secteur-videoludique_6148594_4408996.html), ou le Tokyo Game Show visité par près de 140 000 personnes en septembre 2022. [sous forme entièrement virtuelle l’année suivante](https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2022/01/07/jeux-video-l-e3-se-deroulera-encore-en-ligne-cette-annee_6108578_4408996.html), puis d’être à nouveau mis entre parenthèses en 2022. Lancé en 1995 à Los Angeles (Californie), l’E3 réunit chaque année les principaux acteurs de l’industrie des jeux vidéo.

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

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.