Nintendo has confirmed that it'll not take part in E3 this 12 months. This comes within the wake of a <a href="https://www.gameinformer.com/2023/01/31/playstation-xbox-and-nintendo-reportedly-skipping-e3-2023" goal="_blank" rel="noopener">latest report</a> stating the three console makers plan to skip the annual occasion solely this 12 months. Sony and Microsoft have but to substantiate any formal attendance.
In an announcement to IGN, Nintendo say E3 didn’t match into its plans however will proceed to help the occasion alongside its organizer, the ESA.
“We strategy our involvement in any occasion on a case-by-case foundation and are all the time contemplating numerous methods to interact with our followers. Since this 12 months’s E3 present didn’t match into our plans, we now have made the choice to not take part. Nonetheless, we now have been and proceed to be a robust supporter of the ESA and E3.”
Though Nintendo was the primary of the three console makers to cease holding dwell E3 press conferences in favor of pre-recorded Direct movies, it was additionally the final one to have a conventional sales space on the present ground. Up till the final conventional present in 2019, Nintendo nonetheless had a big, usually elaborate sales space with demos the place it broadcasted its Treehouse Stay stream. Xbox moved its sales space out of the conference middle to the Microsoft Theater subsequent door in 2018 (although it was nonetheless a part of E3); PlayStation pulled out of the occasion solely in 2019 and hasn’t returned.
E3 2023 is being organized by ReedPop, the corporate answerable for overseeing PAX and Star Wars Celebration. Will probably be the primary in-person present for the reason that 2019 version and solely the second to happen for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic began (the 2020 and 2022 reveals have been utterly canceled, whereas 2021 was a digital occasion). E3 runs from June 13-16 on the Los Angeles Conference Middle and could have devoted attendance days for trade and followers. The present has no exhibitor checklist but, however Ubisoft lately confirmed it’s going to attend E3 if it occurs. Xbox head Phil Spencer has expressed help for E3’s success but additionally alluded to Microsoft holding a separate occasion across the identical time in Los Angeles.
[Source: IGN]
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