E3 Has Cancelled Venues in 2024 & 2025, ESA States No Final Decisions Made

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It looks like E3 isn’t coming back in the next two years, at least, not where we expect it to be.

As reported by Video Games Chronicle, the Los Angeles City Tourism Board shared a recent meeting summary revealing that “includes E3 cancellations for 2024 and 2025”.

Now, the reason this is newsworthy and not just idle gossip is E3 has used one venue since its inception; the Los Angeles City Convention Center. It certainly looked like this was an indication that the ESA had given up on the event in the near future.

However, the ESA did share a statement responding to the Video Games Chronicle article, stating that:

“ESA is currently having conversations about E3 2024 (and beyond), and no final decisions about the event have been made at this time.”

E3’s presence in the Los Angeles City is somewhat centered close to the founding of the event, and the ESA itself. Originally known as the IDSA, or the Interactive Digital Software Association, the ESA’s original purpose was to come together to create a ratings system in response to pressure from American legislators towards the video game industry.

ESA’s organizers then recognized that the industry needed its own trade show, as its presence was deemphasized and undermined at other bigger tech conventions like the Consumer Electronics Show and the Electronics Computer Trade Show. There was no particular special reason to use the venue itself, but it proved to be just right for E3’s original purpose; to show off games and game systems to retailers, not the general public.

For a brief period in 1997 and 1998, the Los Angeles City Convention Center was under renovation. E3 events for those years were held in Georgia World Congress Center. Attendance and participation from game