Rumor: Sony And Nintendo Have Upcoming “Digital Showcase” Events This Year (For E3 Week?)

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Nintendo reportedly has an upcoming digital showcase coming this year.

This rumor comes from Kotaku reported Ethan Gach. He tweeted:

“Sources are telling me both PlayStation AND Nintendo will have additional digital showcases this year.”

The timing of this tweet has other outlets, like GoNintendo, speculating if these digital showcase events are planned for this coming E3 week.

Of course, by now we all know fully well that E3 was cancelled for this year, for reasons that were outlined here. However, that does not mean that game companies can’t use the date for their digital events.

In fact, Microsoft is going ahead with scheduling their Starfield Direct and Xbox Showcase event on that week, and have even planned with Fathom Events to present it to fans for free in US theaters.

For the record, Sony announced that they would stop participating in E3 events in 2019. Sony had several disagreements with the E3 organizers, although they continued to be a member of the ESA.

While Nintendo did not make such a declaration, they almost may as well have done the same thing. Nintendo did not participate with E3 in 2020, 2022, and 2023. For 2021, Nintendo held a digital presentation during E3 week, as well as a Treehouse Live event.

For all the discourse about how E3 has been rendered unnecessary, there is no doubt that gamers will still be looking for game announcements and presentations within the period that the event is held.

It would also be a good time for both companies to hold presentations. While PlayStation in particular have a few major third party releases in the immediate future, they have only confirmed Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 to be the only first party game releasing for the rest of this year. Subsequently, the only