The E3 Fair, a benchmark in the video game industry, returns in person from June 13 to 16 after four years, preparing to restore the interaction of previous editions; however, there are three possible absences, technology news portal IGN reported today.
Xbox, Sony and Nintendo would not have a place in the exhibit at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Specifically, Xbox has announced it will be doing its summer show in California, but has kept quiet about E3.
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Xbox CEO Phil Spencer said the show has his full support and he will be there himself. “E3 is one of the pivotal moments in gaming for me. I love the story of going to Los Angeles, thousands of people there, seeing cool new things… meeting people from the industry, the events we’ve had. I want it to stay that way,” he said. However, he declined to confirm that they will have their own booth at E3.
Xbox has recently faced layoffs and other budget cuts, and in the last year he had no great releases.
Nintendo it also traditionally has a booth on the E3 show floor. However, IGN has learned from industry sources that neither the Japanese nor their Sony compatriots will be at E3 2023, and that PlayStation originally retired in 2019 due to disagreements with the organization.
The organizer of E3, Reed Pophas tried to control the situation by saying so Just this month they have been sending contracts to exhibitors and they have received a lot of interest and verbal commitments. from large 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 industry and consumers.”
Piers Harding-Rolls, an analyst at Ampere, explains the absence would be a blow to E3, but says they make sense as it’s a shame the stock market is returning to face-to-face just in time Nintendo is “at the end of the Switch’s lifecycle, with no sign of a next-gen device this year. I’m not sure if I have a lot of games to show this year, so it makes sense to skip it.
To sonyRoll noted that he skips major events “for several cycles now.”
Source: Eluniverso
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