E3 is officially dead, ESA confirms
'The time has come to say goodbye,' the ESA wrote in a statement.
E3 has had a rocky run since its last in-person show in 2019. Like many conventions, it saw cancellations due to Covid-19, but never managed to make a proper comeback. The ESA has tried and failed to bring the show back to its former glory, and those efforts will now cease. E3 is shutting down for good, its organizer announced in a statement.
The ESA announced the shuttering of E3 in a statement this morning. In a post to the event’s official Twitter/X profile, the organization wrote “after more than two decades of E3, each one bigger than the last, the time has come to say goodbye.” The company also provided a longer statement.
Source: The ESA
The ESA tried to revive E3 this year, calling up PAX organizer ReedPop to help them pull it off. Those efforts fell through after companies like Nintendo and Xbox confirmed they wouldn’t be at the show. Ubisoft, which had previously confirmed it’d be at E3, backed out of the event in favor of its own digital showcase. The ESA and ReedPop eventually pulled the plug, stating that they would be back for “future E3 events.”
With E3 officially dead, there won’t be a will they/won’t they surrounding E3 2024. With that, the groundwork has been laid for Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest to once again dominate the gaming news season in 2024.
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replyDonovan Erskine posted a new article, E3 is officially dead, ESA confirms
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Hasn't it already been dead for several years now? I'm confused.
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It was cancelled for specific years. This is a permanent cancellation.
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Soon the Keighley AI will consume all game awards, not only issuing them, but creating the games themselves. Make your time.
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It was really fun in the early 2000s
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The TGAs are just E3 now, for consumers and devs I think. I'm sure lots of wheeling and dealing gets done there.
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I don’t think it’s even close. TGA is just a drop in the bucket compared to all of the publisher or developer specific marketing content that gets released now throughout the year, with a lot happening over the early summer.
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I went in 2001 and it was amazing. so many great titles and systems coming out. The GBA, the GameCube, the Xbox, the PS2. I thought it was unbelievable that I got to attend, but to think that I also just happened to attend one of their best ones. Even though DNF was never released in its original form, the event they had outside was epic. I sadly lost all of the photos I took, and don't know where they went.
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I think it was around 2002, I went online and found all the keynote videos (pre-YouTube!!) and then burned them to a DVD and my friends and I would watch it in shitty 480p quality, but it was so cool to throw it up on the rear-projection TV.
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It was inevitable once they closed down Kentia Hall. Without the weird peripherals and Japanese ballroom dancing simulators balancing out the rest of the show it was doomed to fail
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Time for E4
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Long Live The Summer Games Fest! https://www.summergamefest.com/
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Embracer buy it?
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