Those absent from E3: Xbox, Nintendo and Sony would not be this year

The E3 fair, a benchmark in the video game industry, returns in person from June 13 to 16, after four years, and is preparing to recover the interaction of past editions; however, there are three possible absences, technology news portal IGN reported today.

Xbox, Sony and Nintendo would not have a place in the Los Angeles Convention Center exhibit. Specifically, Xbox has announced that it will do its summer show in California, but has kept quiet about E3.

Xbox CEO Phil Spencer said that the show has his full support, and that he himself will be there. “E3 is, for me, one of the pivotal moments in gaming. I love the story of going to Los Angeles, thousands of people there, being able to see cool new things… meeting people from the industry, the events we’ve had. I definitely want that to continue,” he said. However, he declined to confirm that they will have their own booth at E3.

Xbox has recently suffered layoffs and other cutbacks, and in the last year he had no great releases.

Nintendo it has also traditionally maintained a booth on the E3 show floor. However, IGN has heard from industry sources that neither the Japanese nor their compatriots from Sony will be at E3 2023, and that PlayStation originally retired in 2019 due to disagreements with the organization.

The organizer of E3, ReedPophas tried to control the situation, saying that Just this month they have sent contracts to exhibitors, and they have received a lot of interest and verbal commitments. of big companies. “When we are ready to announce the exhibitors, we are confident it will be a lineup that will make the trip to Los Angeles worthwhile for both the industry and consumers.”

Piers Harding-Rolls, an analyst at Ampere, explains that the absences would be a blow to E3, but says that they make sense, since it is unfortunate that the fair returns to face-to-face just when Nintendo is “at the end of the Switch’s life cycle, with no sign of a next-gen device this year. I’m not sure I have many games to show this year, so it makes sense to skip it.

As to sonyRoll noted that he has been skipping big events “for several cycles now.” (AND)