Report: Microsoft, Sony & Nintendo All Skipping E3 2023 - Kotaku

This was supposed to be the year, after industry setbacks and a global pandemic, that E3—once the brightest centre of the video game universe—came back “recognizably epic” as a live show for the first time since 2019.

A story on IGN this evening says “all three of gaming’s first-party console manufacturers appear poised to skip E3's big return”, meaning that for the first time in the live show’s history not a single one of them will be at an event that was traditionally their highlight of the whole damn year.

While Microsoft won’t be at any official E3 events, boss Phil Spencer says that, as they’ve done the last few years, Xbox will in 2023 be doing stuff alongside E3 so that any press and industry folks in town for that show will be around for theirs as well.

It’s not known what Nintendo and Sony will be doing in E3's stead, if anything, though Geoff Keighley’s rival Summer Games Fest will be taking place at roughly the same time.

E3 2023 will be recognizably epic—a return to form that honors what’s always worked—while reshaping what didn’t and setting a new benchmark for video game expos in 2023 and beyond.

As we spent much of 2022 refining how E3 2023 would take shape, reflecting on the feedback we solicited, we did not send a single contract to an exhibitor until the start of this month.