They’re truly skipping it, not simply “not doing a reside canine and pony present” like a decade in the past.
Nintendo has formally confirmed information rumored on the finish of January: it won’t have a presence on the revived E3 expo.
In an announcement to VentureBeat, Nintendo mentioned “We strategy our involvement in any occasion on a case-by-case foundation and are all the time contemplating numerous methods to have interaction with our followers. Since this yr’s E3 present didn’t match into our plans, we’ve got made the choice to not take part” earlier than reiterating their help for the present and its authentic organizer, the Digital Software program Affiliation (ESA).
E3 2023 was to be the primary occasion organized by ReedPop (who run the PAX expos) following three years of no in-person occasions on account of numerous permutations of the continued COVID-19 pandemic. Nintendo was the one console producer to be on the present flooring correct on the final in-person, ESA-organized occasion in 2019, with Microsoft holding their sales space on the Microsoft Theater close to the Los Angeles Conference Middle and Sony skipping the present completely.
The dearth of an E3 doesn’t preclude Nintendo having a Nintendo Direct presentation in June to arrange the second half of 2023, as there are not any confirmed launch dates for first get together Change software program following the launch of Pikmin 4 on July 21.
