E3 2024 and 2025 Reportedly Cancelled
According to the Los Angeles City Tourism Board, E3 2024 and 2025 have been cancelled. The information was found in a meeting packet and reported on by ResetEra.
This year’s E3 was supposed to be the first in-person show in four years. However, it was cancelled in March after months of uncertainty.
In a statement issued, E3 owner The ESA claims that “no final decisions” have been made about next year’s potential event.
“ESA is currently having conversations about E3 2024 (and beyond), and no final decisions about the event have been made at this time.”
E3’s new organizer, ReedPop, stated that the show was cancelled because it did not generate enough interest to showcase the size, strength, and impact of the industry.
There is speculation that revival plans may involve relocating outside of Los Angeles, which has been E3’s host city for twenty years. However, the future of the once-flagship event of the games industry seems uncertain.
AsumeTech has reached out to E3’s organizer ReedPop for further clarification.
In the absence of E3, other smaller events took place in Los Angeles this month, including Geoff Keighley’s rival event, Summer Game Fest, Ubisoft Forward, and an Xbox Showcase.
In an interview with AsumeTech, Keighley dismissed the notion that competition from Summer Game Fest was a factor in E3 2023’s cancellation.
Keighley started Summer Game Fest in 2020 after parting ways with E3 due to discomfort with the organizer ESA’s plans. He stated, “I think E3 sort of killed itself in a way. I understand why people say [SGF killed E3], but I think if anything, we created Summer Game Fest because I saw the wheels falling off the wagon of E3.”
“As someone who loves that time of year… for two decades, E3 was part of my life since I was a 15-year-old kid. [From] the first E3 in 1995, I went to every show. I loved it and it defined my summer.”
He added, “It was so exciting to me, and it was heartbreaking to see that start to fall apart. I think they had a relevancy problem, and then they also had a participation problem over the final years.
So yeah, I think the question is, if we didn’t do Summer Game Fest what would happen? I think things would have just kind of really splintered apart this summer.”