# E3 cancels 2023 event, leaving Los Angeles without a major gaming convention ...is it finally dead?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e3-cancels-2023-event-leaving-los-angeles-without-a-major-gaming-convention-is-it-finally-dead/982069
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [April 3, 2023, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e3-cancels-2023-event-leaving-los-angeles-without-a-major-gaming-convention-is-it-finally-dead/982069 "2023-04-03T08:22:28Z")
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### Author:  [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2023, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e3-cancels-2023-event-leaving-los-angeles-without-a-major-gaming-convention-is-it-finally-dead/982069/1 "2023-04-03T08:22:28Z")
It was canceled again but this time because it seems all the major players wouldn’t have been there this year … and well it seems it’s been hurling towards a demise for the past decade or so between competing shows and the companies doing their own thing I’m wondering if its finally over ,
> **[E3 cancels 2023 event, leaving Los Angeles without a major gaming convention](https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/e3-cancels-2023-event-leaving-los-angeles-without-a-major-gaming-convention/ar-AA19hOA3?ocid=MSNHP_U646&pc=U646&cvid=343c7f8b42c24a0bb8f2f346096e4aa5&ei=23)**
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> The Electronic Entertainment Expo, colloquially known as E3, has officially cancelled its 2023 event. This would have been the first E3 since 2019.
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### Author:  [@Mr.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.E)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e3-cancels-2023-event-leaving-los-angeles-without-a-major-gaming-convention-is-it-finally-dead/982069/2 "2023-04-17T15:13:23Z")
E3 as the video game event it started out as has been dead for a long time. When they cancelled it in 2020 most journalists thought it was a blessing in disguise after how miserable and empty it was in 2019. Nobody is interested in paying the ESA for publicity they can get for free on their own.
I think there is still a market for an industry event where publishers and developers and press can connect, but they have to give up on it being a yearly blockbuster event. It has to be smaller, cheaper, and less open to the public.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e3-cancels-2023-event-leaving-los-angeles-without-a-major-gaming-convention-is-it-finally-dead/982069/3 "2023-04-17T15:55:14Z")
Consider that E3 started in 1995. It was a completely different world back then. We barely even had a World Wide Web. I think its relevance just isn’t there anymore.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2023, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e3-cancels-2023-event-leaving-los-angeles-without-a-major-gaming-convention-is-it-finally-dead/982069/4 "2023-04-23T01:52:21Z")
Video game companies just do their own special presentations now. Nintendo has been doing several Nintendo Directs a year to just put out their own announcements.
There just isn’t a need for a big show like this.
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2023, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e3-cancels-2023-event-leaving-los-angeles-without-a-major-gaming-convention-is-it-finally-dead/982069/5 "2023-04-24T13:55:15Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> Video game companies just do their own special presentations now.
This is probably a big part of it. The other day, Ubisoft had a presentation about all the new Division related stuff they were planning (DLC, season content, multiple spin-off titles, graphic novels, etc). Once upon a time this might have been a trade show thing. Now you just spend a couple hours on Twitch showing off your stuff (and upload the promo reels to YouTube). You have more control, it’s cheaper and IGN & PCGamer are still going to write stories about it. The only benefit I can see for the trade show route is maybe people are more attuned to gaming news since it’s an event? But the flipside is the potential to be drowned out and lost by news of a new Mario Kart game.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2023, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e3-cancels-2023-event-leaving-los-angeles-without-a-major-gaming-convention-is-it-finally-dead/982069/6 "2023-12-13T00:06:28Z")
Well, it’s official.
> **[\[BREAKING\] E3 Is Officially Dead, Press 'F' To Pay Respects](https://kotaku.com/is-e3-dead-2023-canceled-esa-1851092261)**
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> The once-massive annual video game conference is done—for real this time
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### Author:  [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2023, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e3-cancels-2023-event-leaving-los-angeles-without-a-major-gaming-convention-is-it-finally-dead/982069/7 "2023-12-13T00:35:07Z")
darn i wanted to go at least once …