E3 is Officially Dead - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 December 2023 / 4,877 Views
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has announced the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is officially dead.
"We know the entire industry, players and creators alike, have a lot of passion for E3," said the ESA President Stanley Pierre-Louis in an interview with The Washington Post. "We share that passion. We know it’s difficult to say goodbye to such a beloved event, but it’s the right thing to do given the new opportunities our industry has to reach fans and partners."
— E3 (@E3) December 12, 2023
The official E3 website now states, "After more than two decades of E3, each one bigger than the last, the time has come to say goodbye. Thanks for the memories."
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Final victim of Covid, hopefully. I hope another event will be created and will be better organized, cuz last thing I remember about E3 is a compilation of trailers of games to be released 2 years later...
I would say the internet and streaming killed it, not Covid. It's not like E3 was doing well before the pandemic.
Covid accelerated things. Last editions were full of ridiculous things (songs, comedy acts, boring sales pitches...), most of the time cuz there weren't enough games coming, and that slowly killed the event. I still want a similar, shorter and better event with only reveals of games to be released in a near future. I think lots of people would still go in the crowd, just like there are still people going to sport events rather than watching it behind a screen.
Holy shit, this doesn't even feel real. E3 was like Christmas. You just always assume its going to be there and that you have something to look forward to every June. It really is the end of an era.
This site gave me my one and only opportunity to attend this show back in '09. What a time that was, not just attending the conferences and walking the show floor, but hanging out with folks from the site back then. Definitely a memory I'll never forget. Glad I got to go when it was still in its glory days.
Same for me in 2012. Wonderful time that was. I still have my Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia, which I believe was only handed out at that event.
End of an era, sad. Keighley's Summer GamesFest as well as Xbox, Sony, and Nintendo really all need to step up now and both coordinate their summer shows/directs near one another but also offer lots of 3rd parties opportunities to showcase their games within those 4 main shows to cut down on pointless single publisher shows, so that we don't end up with another Summer Games Mess year with like 12+ summer shows spread out over 3 months. The magic of E3 was getting dozens of new game announces concentrated down into 3 main days, that magic will be lost if coordination doesn't happen between the publishers and the biggest shows.
It's really too bad that it had to come to this. I remember being SO hyped to watch the event year after year. I'm not a football fan but it used to be the closest thing to a Super Bowl-like event I had lol. But then companies started leaving and after Sony left, it just wasn't the same. Thanks for the memories!
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Sad but inevitable. Just doesn't make sense to pay the costs for a live event and compete with every other developer for attention when you can put out a Youtube video for a fraction of the price.
Now there's no hope of seeing Mr. Caffeine again. :(
RIP in peace, E3.
That's a shame. E3 was an event I always looked forward to.
Times change and E3 just didn't adapt. It could have easily moved into an online streaming media extravaganza but other things like Summer Games Fest took it's place. And that's terrible too.
Just one question: Why is Gamescom so popular? It's basically the same concept. The simple answer is that ESA wasn't able to create an event which is interesting for visitors AND developers. I'll miss those big shows. It's a shame.
Rip e3,
One of the hypest place before but not anymore
That sucks. Hopefully we`ll get something to replace it.
We already have Gamescom.
Gamescom kinda sucks. Maybe it will get better now, but I think one based in the US will just attract more developers. Gaming is just so much bigger there.
Bad news. It was easily the biggest and most exciting event in all of gaming, and for people to say good good riddance are totally clueless.
E3 needed to be held at a later date around September, so it’s easier for developers to release more complete gameplay footage that is closer to being released. And other gaming events could move around E3, because that was the biggest.
And scummy platform holders didn't want to spend the money either, when they are making record profits, which is actually disgusting.
People celebrating small events with are frequently boring - replacing a far more exciting big event, need to be ignored.
Platform holders made accounting of amount invested and return received and it wasn't making sense to keep going. Perhaps E3 wanted to much money or the news report weren't big enough. Their Youtube releases seem to be getting a lot more attention for lower cost.
AWESOME! E3 sucked the last decade. Long dull awkward conferences. Directs and the equiv are much better and faster ways to get out info.
Pragmatism is great, but nothing will replace the collective excitement that E3 brought when it was at its peak. Every gamer around the globe had a set date, a world-wide holiday to look forward to that was curated and ready to go with ALL the info in one, tiny weekend. We sat around with bated breath, had it circled on our calendars. And when it happened, there was nothing like it.
Nothing is going to replace that, even IF it's better at info delivery.
Sony killed e3 by not being there, fuck you sony
I dont think so. MS and Nintendo have moved on as well.
Sony said the date needed to be moved from June to earlier in the year to better accommodate the changes that had occured in marketing and trade scheduling but it fell on deaf ears so they walked.
Nintendo struck first in 2013 not having a live show. Plus the idea of Directs became more viable. E3 never adapted to it. So it died on it's own
