Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "E3 2023 HAS BEEN CANCELED"

Episode Date: April 10, 2023

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticE3 2023 has been canceled, organizers at the Entertainment Software Association announced Thursday, following the reported withdrawal of major publishers like Ubisoft, Sega, and Tencent. Those companies joined console manufacturers Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony who had previously confirmed they wouldn’t take part in this year’s E3, an event that promised to return the spectacled gaming industry show to Los Angeles for the first time in four years.“This was a difficult decision because of all the effort we and our partners put toward making this event happen, but we had to do what’s right for the industry and what’s right for E3,” said Kyle Marsden-Kish, global VP of gaming at ReedPop, in a news release. “We appreciate and understand that interested companies wouldn’t have playable demos ready and that resourcing challenges made being at E3 this summer an obstacle they couldn’t overcome. For those who did commit to E3 2023, we’re sorry we can’t put on the showcase you deserve and that you’ve come to expect from ReedPop’s event experiences.”ReedPop and the ESA said they will “continue to work together on future E3 events.”source: E3 2023 canceled, ESA confirms, as publishers pull out - PolygonPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Now the time has come that we must come together as gamers and remember what was and how special that moment was because not every day you get the Goliaths of the gaming industry to come together on one stage. PlayStation, Microsoft, Nintendo, all on one stage. and in the new age of digital media they had the epiphany that hey we can just do this ourselves then we got the Nintendo Degret

then we got the Nintendo Direct got the PlayStation showcase whatever Microsoft calls a showcase I don't even know and in turn as a result of all the Goliats of the video game industry just running the own showcase

they decided to leave one of the biggest, most prestigious stages in the gaming field. So now I come to you with a heavy heart to inform you that E32023 has been canceled. All right, well, all jokes aside, of course, it's a sad day that E3 20203 has been canceled, but who didn't see this coming? I mean, once PlayStation pulled out, once Microsoft pulled out, everybody was just looking at E3 as beneath them, like the bottom of the shoe, just straight up scum. And now, you know, the people who's putting together E3, they had to have a joint, you know, meeting and probably decide that it would not be financially responsible to go through with the humongous production that is E3, 2023. I mean, I know a lot of people who've attended E3, and from the way they talk about it, man, they'd be charging an arm in the leg for indie producers to have a booth at those conferences.

Like, it was really the Grammys of Gaming Showcase. Now, of course, the Grammys nowadays is the Game Awards, which Jeff Keely is probably delighted to see that E3, 2023 is no longer here because that means less competition for him when it comes to Summer Games Fest. in the Game Awards because I don't know what happened with E3, 2023 because you can always take a piece from each platform and have it as your own showcase. I don't know if they was charging too much. I don't know if PlayStation Microsoft was just like, we're not sharing the stage no more. I don't know what it was.

But like I just said with the Nintendo Direct PlayStation Showcase and whatever Microsoft calls or stuff, they just decided to go direct the consumer, by live streaming their own event and so now they didn't cut e3 2023 which used to be the middleman used to be the important middleman to get out to a certain audience is no longer the case so they left and now e3 2023 has unfortunately been canceled for the first time in like four years i believe no that first time let me see for the first time no no the first time that the big three has pulled out and four years. Like sometimes one will pull out

or another one will pull out, but this is the first time they all poured out in a while. So anyways, the Global VP of Gaming at Repop gave a news release saying, we appreciate and understand that interested companies

wouldn't have playable demos ready and that resourcing challenges made being at E3 this summer an obstacle they couldn't overcome. For those who did commit to E3, we're sorry we can't put on the showcase you deserve and that you've come to expect from Repop's event experiences. And then he continued to say that we will continue to work together on future E3 events. So that's why I keep saying E3, 20203 is over, as he'll probably try to come back for 2024

and have PlayStation Microsoft and Nintendo show up. He's probably going to make it the most. He's probably going to try to give them an offer that they can't refuse so they at least show up in some form or some type of capacity, you know? But for right now, E3 is done. Jeff Keeley with Summer Games Fest will serve as an alternative for the game publishers and developers. And who knows?

Maybe PlayStation Microsoft and Nintendo will start to pull out of Summer Games Fest. because in the digital age of events, you honestly don't need a certain platform unless it's bigger than you. So hopefully that makes sense. So obviously PlayStation Microsoft was like, hey, E3 is not bigger than us. So we're just going to do it.

We're just going to give it straight to our consumers. For the Summer Games Fest, being attached to the Game Awards show, I think with the prestige that the Game Awards show is starting to have. I think they would definitely show up for the Summer Games Fest, but hey, you never know because at the end of the day, who would have thought that Microsoft, Nintendo, and PlayStation would have pulled out of E3?

So anyways, man, unfortunate series of events, but it resulted in E3-20203 being canceled. And to end this segment, let's give a final statement. from what's his name, Kyle Mardisch, the Global VP of Gaming, saying that, quote, this was a difficult decision because of all the effort we and our partners put toward making this event happen. But we had to do what's right for the industry and what's right for E3. So E3, 2023 is officially canceled. So click my link to my bio.

Let me know one of my social. media's what do you think about e3 2023 being canceled do you care and also with that being canceled what gaming showcase are you now looking forward to