E3 2023 has been hyping itself up as a grand return to form, with the annual event to make its return to Los Angeles after years of cancellations due to covid. However, a report from "multiple knowledgeable sources" over at IGN claims that the big three--Nintendo, Xbox, and PlayStation, will all be skipping E3 2023. The last E3 to take place, in 2019, saw a lack of support from PlayStation, who did not appear at the convention, and held their own separate press conference outside of E3, though both Nintendo and Xbox featured large booths at E3 2019. Last year also saw both Nintendo and PlayStation not make an appearance at Europe's equivalent annual show, Gamescom. A recent interview with Xbox CEO Phil Spencer reveals that Xbox wants to support E3 and the ESA, but hints at Xbox's press conference merely taking place at a convenient time with E3's event, rather than at the show itself.

Xbox is on the board of the ESA, and I think a successful and healthy ESA is critical to what we're trying to go do. So we place our showcase, like we always have done, at a time where hopefully it's convenient for press and even consumers that are going to the E3 event, and that's what we're trying to do now. We will continue to work with ESA in terms of their plans. As I said, we're on the board, and we want to make sure that we are doing everything we can to help make the E3 successful.

E3 2023 will take place in Los Angeles from June 13 to June 16th.

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[shaunj66]

More like E0.

When was the last time E3 was truly relevant anyway?

 

[Kioku]

Well, that would be unfortunate but not surprising. E3 really hasn't been exciting since the late 2000s for me...

 

[Deleted member 466238]

Well... then what's the point

 

[Andy2001]

Oh no, anyways...

 

[AdenTheThird]

Another death blow to an already dying event. I'm saddened, because E3 is super nostalgic to me. But after the pandemic, and now this, whats the point?

 

[eduall]

E3 will be indies exclusive only...

 

[Deleted member 194275]

I was going to say that nothing is more worthless than E3, but then I remembered that Game Awards exists.

 

[Bladexdsl]

e3 is now officially DEAD and absolutely no fucks were given

 

[jahrs]

E3 without the big 3 is just an E and E=MC² however MC can mean Minecraft or Microsoft Corporation but they already said they weren't going so E=0² or just Zero

 

[yusuo]

I'm a little disappointed about this, I've been following e3 for years and when they moved to streaming I tried to watch live whenever I could.

Bit sad to see it go.

 

[smilodon]

A bit sad to see the comments here considering how influential and anticipated E3 was in the past. I hope we will still get hyped events in the future, Games Awards seems to fill that void.

 

[pedro702]

e3 was for a time where it was hard to reach people with your annoncements, with social media and every company can just announce anything at any time, this type of events are no longer necessary unfortunately, nowadays any developer can just do a random announcement on twitter and probably reach more people than e3.

 

[Kioku]

A bit sad to see the comments here considering how influential and anticipated E3 was in the past. I hope we will still get hyped events in the future, Games Awards seems to fill that void.

Eh… Only reason I had that up this last year was to try and win a Steam Deck. E3 was so much more, 3 days of announcements, news, reviews, events… That void is going to be empty for a hot minute…

 

[Xzi]

E3 will be indies exclusive only...

Time to go Big Mode. E3 will be Dunkey exclusive.

 

[TraderPatTX]

Looks like shutting down your event showed people and companies that they didn't need your event to begin with and in turn, hurting other events in the process.

 

[K3Nv2]

Big 3: crap we can't blame COVID anymore let's just not go.

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

Can't go to E3 if you have nothing to show.

 

[ChibiMofo]

Can't go to E3 if you have nothing to show.

That never stopped Sony.


E3 is a giant waste of time and money anyway. Good riddance.

 

[Taleweaver]

Sounds like the pandemic accidentally had a positive effect.