Thursday, March 12th 2020
E3 2020 Cancelled due to Coronavirus
The world's largest gathering of video game publishers, developers, gamers, and associated artists, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, won't be held this year, according to an ArsTechnica report citing sources among members of ESA, the show's organizers. At the time of this writing, ESA made no formal announcement from the ESA about the show's fate - whether it's cancelled, delayed, or transformed into an online event like many other trade-shows this year. Most trade-shows scheduled for 2020 have suffered one of these three due to the COVID-19 outbreak that has recently gained "global pandemic" status by the World Health Organization. COVID-19 is a highly contagious respiratory tract infection that has claimed over 3,000 lives globally. This would be the first time that E3 has been cancelled since its debut edition in 1995.
Update Mar 12th: It's official, E3 2020 has been cancelled. "After careful consultation with our member companies regarding the health and safety of everyone in our industry - our fans, our employees, our exhibitors and our longtime E3 partners - we have made the difficult decision to cancel E3 2020, scheduled for June 9-11 in Los Angeles," says organizer ESA in its statement announcing the cancellation
Sources:
ArsTechnica, Games Radar
Update Mar 12th: It's official, E3 2020 has been cancelled. "After careful consultation with our member companies regarding the health and safety of everyone in our industry - our fans, our employees, our exhibitors and our longtime E3 partners - we have made the difficult decision to cancel E3 2020, scheduled for June 9-11 in Los Angeles," says organizer ESA in its statement announcing the cancellation
40 Comments on E3 2020 Cancelled due to Coronavirus
Take a look at Italy, hospitals are full, people in beds in the hallways, people needing chemotherapy being refused for the moment. It's that bad of there, and other countries will follow if no drastic measures are taken.
The last E3 was more marketing than you can put in a cringe-worthy 2 min teaser trailer or just showing off majority of products that will be unfinished even at the time of release, rather than an expo that's worthy. Times have changed, sadly.
Waiting for Trump to cancel the November elections and declare himself King Trump. lolz
P.S.
What's with the conspiracy theory tinfoil crap going on in the comments?
Following increased and overwhelming concerns about the COVID-19 virus, we felt this was the best way to proceed during such an unprecedented global situation. We are very disappointed that we are unable to hold this event for our fans and supporters. But we know it’s the right decision based on the information we have today.
Our team will be reaching out directly to exhibitors and attendees with information about providing full refunds.
We are also exploring options with our members to coordinate an online experience to showcase industry announcements and news in June 2020. Updates will be shared on E3Expo.com.
We thank everyone who shared their views on reimagining E3 this year. We look forward to bringing you E3 2021 as a reimagined event that brings fans, media, and the industry together in a showcase that celebrates the global video game industry.
nl.hardware.info/nieuws/71273/e3-beurs-afgelast-vanwege-coronavirus---update
1, 2 or 6 months before hitting global population (I mean more than 1 billion) ?
Stop freaking out, start learning basic stuff about hygiene (like washing hands, and not only use hydro-alcoholic solutions), and next part is up to scientists !
They won't find a cure fast enough because it's a virus but they will, at some point, find a vaccine they will need to adapt at each mutation.
Stop cancelling all stuff because of the fear created for basically a disease... It's a freaking flu !!! A fast one, but still a flu.
The only positive aspect is pollution reduction >.>
Then think about how many of them have healthy partners or spouses who come into contact with many people per day. It’s not just a few people with pre-existing or chronic conditions that are at risk. Many are at risk even if they don’t interact with anyone.
Cancelling large events is prudent because of that. But I hesitate to agree with cancelling 3 months out. Who knows what it will be like in 2 months. If it dies out then the event was cancelled prematurely.
He thinks it was COVID-19 but no one in the States was testing (still hardly are) at that point, but considering all the people he shook hand from that region it could have been. Surprised the number weren't worse earlier.