They’re really skipping it, not simply “not doing a reside canine and pony present” like a decade in the past.
Nintendo has formally confirmed information rumored on the finish of January: it won’t have a presence on the revived E3 expo.
In a press release to VentureBeat, Nintendo mentioned “We strategy our involvement in any occasion on a case-by-case foundation and are all the time contemplating varied methods to interact with our followers. Since this 12 months’s E3 present didn’t match into our plans, we now have made the choice to not take part” earlier than reiterating their assist for the present and its unique organizer, the Digital Software program Affiliation (ESA).
E3 2023 was to be the primary occasion organized by ReedPop (who run the PAX expos) following three years of no in-person occasions as a consequence of varied permutations of the continued COVID-19 pandemic. Nintendo was the one console producer to be on the present ground correct on the final in-person, ESA-organized occasion in 2019, with Microsoft holding their sales space on the Microsoft Theater close to the Los Angeles Conference Middle and Sony skipping the present solely.
The shortage of an E3 doesn’t preclude Nintendo having a Nintendo Direct presentation in June to arrange the second half of 2023, as there are not any confirmed launch dates for first occasion Swap software program following the launch of Pikmin 4 on July 21.