Pay no attention to the 2019 away team hammering nails into a coffin. *UPDATED WITH CONFIRMATION*
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/53156/confirmed-e3-2020-to-be-cancelled-due-to-covid-19
UPDATE The ESA has confirmed to Gamespot that the live event portion of E3 will be cancelled. "After careful consultation with our member companies regarding the health and safety of everyone in our industry--our fans, our employees, our exhibitors and our longtime E3 partners--we have made the difficult decision to cancel E3 2020, scheduled for June 9-11 in Los Angeles."
Exhibitors will be refunded in due course, and a digital event of some nature will likely be held.
Original story follows.
An announcement is rumored to be happening as soon as tomorrow morning regarding the cancellation of the 2020 E3 expo.
Devolver Digital, known for their elaborate videos airing around E3, made a public statement tonight suggesting the show would be cancelled:
Cancel your E3 flights and hotels, y’all.
— Devolver Digital (@devolverdigital) March 11, 2020
This was along multiple media reports suggesting the cancellation of the show:
My day started with investigating some E3 stuff. Ended with multiple (and I mean MULTIPLE) sources coming my way.
— Mike Futter (@Futterish) March 11, 2020
E3 cancelation announcement scheduled for tmw AM. I don’t think it will hold the night. Many of us have been engaged by sources this evening.
Cancel your plans.
Been hearing secondhand whispers tonight from several devs/pubs that E3 is cancelled, although I've also heard from a couple of people in positions to know that the ESA hasn't officially made a decision yet and is still consulting with pubs. Either way, it's only a matter of time https://t.co/Od0MDj3ZXv
— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) March 11, 2020
— Patrick Klepek (@patrickklepek) March 11, 2020
Should the cancellation be confirmed by the Electronic Software Association, it would follow the postponement of the Game Developer's Conference and the cancellation of the South by Southwest festival in Austin which was expected to feature a few gaming related announcements.
This show was looking like a dumpster fire anyway with all the companies and prominent people who'd declined to participate,
Good riddance. With the next-gen consoles looking increasingly likely to be delayed into 2021 for the same reason, no one had anything they could show this year anyway. All the major companies can just throw together their own online trailer reel if they had anything worthwhile.
To lose E3, what is going to be the schedule for gaming news? What will be the waiting periods for updates and announcements? Even broadcast networks and movie studios will have some sort of yearly events in which they make a lot of announcements for upcoming projects. They might not announce everything and plans can change but they usually reveal a large portion of their plans and people know when to expect them. Right now, gaming enthusiasts no longer have that. There is no date that we can look to in the future and know that once we reach it then we'll finally get some solid answers as to what to expect for a year or so. That I don't like.
I wonder if this is why we haven't had a Nintendo Direct in so long? Nintendo usually likes to wait until E3 for there 2nd half lineup, so if they've been hearing reports that E3 was on shaky ground the last few months, they've probably wanted to wait until it was officially canceled so they'd have a better idea on what games to reveal when now.
E3 was three months from now. Have that many events been cancelled over the coronavirus that are that far off from now? I know some sporting events have been cancelled or postponed but they were events due in the next few days or weeks, not in June.
E3 was three months from now. Have that many events been cancelled over the coronavirus that are that far off from now? I know some sporting events have been cancelled or postponed but they were events due in the next few days or weeks, not in June.As mentioned in the article yes there have been events canceled because of CORVID-19. I don't know how many sporting events that have been canceled but in the NBA there have been talks today on how to go about things if fans are not allowed in to watch the games and all other fun things that go along with that.
E3 was three months from now. Have that many events been cancelled over the coronavirus that are that far off from now? I know some sporting events have been cancelled or postponed but they were events due in the next few days or weeks, not in June.
The only reason they haven't cancelled Wrestlemania yet is because they're trying to push the host region into cancelling it so they get a major insurance payout. Though Vince McMahon would probably rather die than move the show: he continued running a show after Owen Hart DIED IN THE RING, and ran a show two days after the 9/11 attacks.