Xbox is skipping the E3 2023 present flooring

Xbox is the newest massive gaming model to formally say that it gained’t be on the E3 present flooring, confirming the choice to IGN on Friday. Simply this week, Microsoft introduced the June eleventh date for its annual Xbox showcase and a devoted Starfield present, however we nonetheless didn’t know if Xbox would really be on the ground of this 12 months’s in-person E3 conference.

“We are able to’t wait to host our Xbox Video games Showcase on June eleventh and can share extra particulars later,” an Xbox spokesperson stated in a press release to IGN. “We additionally stay up for co-streaming our occasion as a part of E3 Digital and won’t be on the E3 present flooring.”

In February, Nintendo confirmed that it wouldn’t be part of E3, which now implies that each Nintendo and Microsoft gained’t have cubicles on the conference itself. Don’t get your hopes up for Sony being there: the corporate skipped E3 in 2019 and hasn’t been again since, and IGN reported in January that Sony can be passing on 2023 as properly. Sony didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

In a press release, ReedPop proprietor Reed Exhibitions US stated that information about exhibitors is forthcoming. “Alongside the upcoming bulletins from different AAA firms relating to their very own participation, we stay up for sharing extra of the publishers that might be a part of our digital showcase collection and exhibiting on the present flooring within the lead as much as the return of E3,” Kyle Marsden-Kish, the worldwide VP of gaming at Reed Exhibitions US, stated.

The E3 conference is ready for June thirteenth to the sixteenth, with the E3 “Digital Week” kicking off on June eleventh with Microsoft’s Xbox present. Geoff Keighley’s Summer season Recreation Fest is returning just some days earlier than all that on June eighth.