The organizers of E3 2022, the biggest video game trade show in the world, recently confirmed that there will be no physical meeting this year. Nevertheless, the digital fair is also likely to be canceled.
E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, is one of the annual conferences most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. At the start of the health crisis, E3 2020 has been completely canceled. It was a first for the international video game fair which has been held every year without fail since 1995 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
In 2021, no one set foot on the floor of the Convention Center since the show took place entirely online. Publishers like Xbox and Bethesda had actually hosted online conferences. This year, gamers had high hopes that E3 would return to its former glory. However, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) recently confirmed that the physical meeting of the 2022 edition of E3 is canceled.
No E3 2022, but Summer Game Fest will take advantage of its absence this summer
The Omicron wave and the peaks of contamination in the world are responsible for the cancellation of the show. Nevertheless, there might not be an E3 at all this year. Indeed, insider Jeff Grub explained in a short video that E3 2022 is ” a mess ».
The digital rendezvous players expect is also “ probably canceled “. But then, there will be no E3 this year? The survival of the international video game fair has been increasingly uncertain since the start of the pandemic. Publishers have indeed become accustomed organize their own conferences. E3 could therefore permanently lose its interest.
Developers could also take advantage of the Summer Game Fest presented by Geoff Keighley to announce their new games and projects. Geoff Keighley has also taken advantage of the abandonment of the physical meeting of E3 to formalize the return of the Summer Game Fest this summer. However, ESA has not yet announced any digital lounge for E3 2022, but we should know more soon. If E3 is physically and digitally canceled this year, its return in 2023 will be uncertain.
Source : Dual SHOCKERS