Bloomberg: E3 2020 will be canceled today [UPDATED]
E3 may not take place this year. As stated by a number of media outlets, including Bloomberg, the organizer of the ESA event is going to announce its cancellation.
The ESA statement will be made on March 11 at 19:30 Moscow time. The management of the organization, according to informed sources, informed its partners about the search for “options for holding E3 in an online format.” Google and Facebook have recently made the same decision, so their Cloud Next and F8 2020 conferences will be held in the form of online seminars.
Ars Technica also writes about today’s cancellation of E3, citing its own sources.
Publishers also stirred: Devolver Digital on Twitter advised E3 participants to hand over their tickets.
Cancel your E3 flights and hotels, y’all.
— Devolver Digital (@devolverdigital) March 11, 2020Kotaku editor Jason Schreier responded.
На призыв Devolver Digital He has other information. As a “source directly connected with ESA” told the journalist, the E3 management has not yet made a final decision and is now consulting with game publishers.
Nevertheless, Schreier has no doubts about the cancellation of E3. The whole question is whether it will happen tonight. Recall that the largest industrial exhibition is still scheduled for June in Los Angeles.
Updated: last night, the ESA did cancel E3. The organization promises to make refands, as well as arrange an online event in June. Which one, ESA does not know yet.
The coronavirus outbreak is gradually covering the United States, but the cancellation of the exhibition may be related not only to the epidemic. Even before the widespread spread of the epidemic, large publishers and prominent industry figures began to refuse to participate in E3. For example, Sony
and the founder of The Game Awards.It is not the first year that opinions have been voiced that E3 as an industry conference has reached an impasse and it needs a change of format. You can read more about this here.
- Coronavirus and Game Dev: How the Industry Reacted to the Epidemic [UPDATED]Google canceled I/O 2020 due to the threat of coronavirus
- The organizer of The Game Awards refused to participate and produce E3
- PlayStation Won’t be Coming to E3 2020
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