According to the host Entertainment Software Association (ESA), E3 2022 has been officially cancelled. ESA announced in January that the event would be held online only in 2022 due to “potential impacts of COVID-19 and safety concerns for exhibitors”, and now the online portion has been cancelled.
While canceling, ESA also confirmed that E3 will be back in the summer of 2023, and said in a statement that it will “devote all energy and resources to E3 next summer to create a rejuvenated physical and digital E3 experience”, and We hope to “ensure that the new E3 event can set new standards in the industry in both online/offline composite industry events and fan interaction.”
ESA will choose to cancel this year’s E3. To be honest, it’s a bit surprising. After all, when the epidemic situation in the United States was more worrying last year, online exhibitions were held, and many game companies published products and news with E3 as the focus. Relatively speaking, the epidemic in the United States seems to have come to an end this year, and restrictions have been gradually loosened, but the result is the same as in 2020, and it will not be held at all.