E3 won’t be back soon

E3 is dead, and it won’t be back for at least a few more years. According to A report from the Los Angeles City Tourism CommissionE3 will not return to LA in 2024 or 2025.

The news was included in a footnote to a chart highlighting the city’s projected and actual number of booked hotel rooms for fiscal years 2022 and 2023.

Apparently, the city doesn’t expect E3 to return until 2024 or 2025. This news doesn’t match the messaging from E3 organizers, ReadPop, and ESA. Earlier this year, ESA — the trade organization that runs E3 — announced it was partnering with Reedpop, the entertainment company that runs big fan conventions like New York Comic-Con and Penny Arcade Expo, to run E3 2023. After the COVID-19 pandemic shut down in-person events between 2020 and 2022, 2023 was intended to mark the in-person return of the video game industry’s biggest event of the year.

However, E3 2023 was cancelled, with ReadPop’s global vice president of gaming, Kyle Marsden-Kish, citing the reason that publishers would not have game demos or reels available in time. But if E3 2024 and 2025 are canceled as well, it suggests something else is preventing E3’s return or that its organizers are considering moving it out of Los Angeles.

Despite the cancellation of E3, other events have moved forward to take its place. Last week, Geoff Keighley organized a Summer Game Fest that included an Xbox Showcase and a star field presentation. Earlier this month, Sony held its own event for PlayStation, showing off gameplay for Insomniac games. spider man 2, Nintendo and Ubisoft also held their own presentations, with a week-long event for Steam still going,

The press release announcing the cancellation of E3 2023 indicated that ESA and ReadPop would work on a future E3 event. in an email to ledge“ESA is currently in talks about E3 2024 (and beyond), and no final decisions have been made about the event at this time,” ESA wrote.