It seems that E3 organizer, the Entertainment Software Association, hasn't abandoned the iconic gaming industry convention. According to a Washington Post interview with ESA President and CEO Stan Pierre-Louis, E3 will return in full in 2023, both online and in person.
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The Electronic Entertainment Expo for years was the cornerstone of the video game industry where every developer, publisher, or fan could learn the biggest news, reveals , and interviews of the year.
That was then, though, with “then” being any time from the 1990s to the mid-2010s. In the last decade, publishers have figured out that they can better manage news cycles on their own, and the popularity of online news shows has grown, meaning that E3 has lost its luster (even if it has remained somewhat useful as a genuine industry expo).
There was also, you know, a global pandemic that meant the event hadn't been held in person at the Los Angeles Convention Center for the past three years, giving competing online shows plenty of time to spread their wings. That didn't help either.
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In any case, now that the pandemic is subsiding (or people have stopped caring about it), live events like E3 are starting to take place again. The event's organizers have decided that now is the time to say that they will try to bring the event back for 2023.
“We’re excited to be back in 2023 with a digital and an in-person event,” Stan Pierre-Louis, CEO of ESA’s E3 organizers, told the Washington Post. “As much as we love these digital events, and as much as they reach people and we want that global reach, we know there’s a really strong desire for people to come together — to be able to connect in person and see each other and talk about what makes games great.”
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You can't blame them for trying. But we really don't know how successful this will be.
Source of information: kotaku.com
