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“We can confirm that we are transforming the E3 experience for 2021 and will soon share exact details on how we bring the global gaming community together.” An ESA spokesperson said. “We have great conversations with publishers, developers and companies from all walks of life, and look forward to sharing details of their involvement soon.”
This news follows a report by VGC, in which E3 2021 blurbs sent to game publishers featured the proposition that three days of live coverage of the previously announced dates of June 15 to 17, 2021.
The plan includes “multiple two-hour presentation sessions from game partners, an awards show, a preview night on June 14, and other smaller feeds from game publishers, influencers and partners. media”.
The broadcast event would be preceded by a week of media preview and demos would be made public during E3 2021 to help celebrate the future of video games.
ESA also plans to make it possible to “enable partner companies to remotely broadcast playable game demos to the media through ‘thousands’ of scheduled meetings,” as well as individual developer support.
According to the report, those plans for E3 2021 still need to be approved by ESA members, which include some of the world’s biggest gaming companies.Before COVID-19, many companies, including Sony, had previously abandoned E3 to host their own digital events. In addition, the Video Game Awards and Summer Game Fest’s Geoff Keighley had also withdrawn from E3 2020, and has no plans to return this year.
Being a part of E3 is also very expensive, and a video game company has indicated that it would rather host its own digital event instead of “paying the six-figure sums needed to join the E3 2021 schedule.”
VGC notes that ESA has not officially canceled plans for a physical E3 2021 event, but the digital event is indeed the primary focus.The proposed show would run from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. EST, with regional reruns scheduled around the world. A typical day would include “a 30 minute pre-show hosted by a media partner, followed by a 2 hour” exclusive press conference “by a console platform owner, followed by a question and answer session. responses and a reaction from the panel.Then there would be more presentations from third-party editors, a wrap-up show, a teaser for the next day and an “after the charity party” feed.
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