If E3 is to be revived, it apparently will not be with Nintendo on the LA Conference Heart.

A number of sources confirmed IGN Nintendo, together with console rivals Sony and Microsoft, won’t be current on the 2023 occasion scheduled for June 13-16 in Los Angeles. The occasion could be run by ReedPop (which manages PAX expos and its personal retailers like Eurogamer, amongst different occasions) along with the Digital Software program Affiliation, the gaming trade’s commerce group.

E3 2023 was to be a return to an in-person occasion after a three-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic and different elements, however ESA has tried to carry a sequence of on-line showcase occasions in 2021. The final pre-pandemic E3 present in 2019, on the identical time Microsoft had the Xbox present flooring on the Microsoft Theatre, positioned in the identical complicated because the E3 host venue, the Los Angeles Conference Heart. Microsoft has already introduced plans for an in-person summer time occasion, however has but to supply location particulars.

Nintendo could select to carry a Direct to coincide with the occasion in June, however this isn’t assured; There have been no particular Nintendo occasions in 2020, and June 2022 noticed a Direct devoted to Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and a Associate Showcase six days aside on the finish of June. The final “E3 Direct” from Nintendo was in 2021.