Nintendo confirms it will not be at E3 2023

Nintendo has determined not to participate on this 12 months’s E3. “We strategy our involvement in any occasion on a case-by-case foundation and are all the time contemplating varied methods to have interaction with our followers,” Nintendo instructed Engadget in an announcement. “Since this 12 months’s E3 present didn’t match into our plans, now we have made the choice to not take part. Nonetheless, now we have been and proceed to be a powerful supporter of the ESA [Entertainment Software Association] and E3.”

Nintendo usually has a presence on the E3 showfloor and it has typically run Treehouse broadcasts all through the occasion along with a Direct. The corporate took half within the final correct version of E3 in 2019, in addition to the all-digital affair in 2021. There was no E3 in 2020 or 2022.

Earlier this month, IGN reported that Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony have all bowed out of E3 this 12 months. Sony hasn’t had a presence on the occasion since 2018, however neither it nor Microsoft have publicly confirmed plans for this 12 months’s version. Regardless, Microsoft will host its big annual showcase in Los Angeles this summer season. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer not too long ago hinted it should happen across the similar time as E3, which is able to run between June thirteenth and sixteenth.

There might all the time be a Nintendo Direct in mid-June as nicely, even when it is not formally related to the expo. In the meantime, word on the street is that PlayStation is planning a significant showcase forward of E3 after this week’s so-so State of Play stream.

The absence of simply one of many huge three console producers from E3 is a blow for the ESA, not to mention all of them. Summer season Recreation Fest is threatening to steal extra of the stalwart occasion’s thunder too. However hey, no less than Ubisoft will be at E3.