{"id":112866,"date":"2020-05-13T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/square_enix_reportedly_ditching_plans_for_e3_2020_replacement_show"},"modified":"2020-05-13T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T14:10:00","slug":"square-enix-reportedly-ditching-plans-for-e3-2020-replacement-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/13\/square-enix-reportedly-ditching-plans-for-e3-2020-replacement-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Enix Reportedly Ditching Plans For E3 2020 Replacement Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b989897460201\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b989897460201\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Square Enix\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b989897460201\/square-enix.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b989897460201\/square-enix.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Square Enix\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>With this year&#8217;s traditional E3 event <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/e3_2020_is_officially_cancelled\">being cancelled<\/a>, publishers are having to come up with new ways to keep fans up to date with new releases this summer. Ubisoft has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/ubisoft_forward_announced_-_a_brand_new_e3-style_showcase_airing_on_12th_july\">committed to a new digital showcase<\/a> called &#8216;Ubisoft Forward&#8217;, set to air at around the time E3 would have taken place, but others are forgoing events altogether, doing things at their own pace.<\/p>\n<p>Square Enix looks to be one such example. Bloomberg tech reporter, Takashi Mochizuki, has <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/6d6f636869\/status\/1260531256812466176\">reported<\/a> that the publisher won&#8217;t be holding any online event around E3&#8217;s timing this year as preparing assets for such a show &#8216;has become difficult&#8217; thanks to the global pandemic. Instead, &#8216;it will announce new titles on [an] individual basis&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Back in March, in response to E3 2020&#8217;s cancellation, Square Enix had originally stated that it was &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/square_enix_exploring_other_options_to_share_its_games_now_that_e3_2020_has_been_axed\">exploring other options<\/a>&#8221; to share games with its fans, with many assuming this to mean that a Nintendo Direct-style presentation would be announced at a later date. It&#8217;s a shame that we&#8217;ll be missing out on the traditional E3 experience this year, but at least we can still expect to receive new game announcements as and when they&#8217;re ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With this year&#8217;s traditional E3 event being cancelled, publishers are having to come up with new ways to keep fans up to date with new releases this summer. Ubisoft has committed to a new digital showcase called &#8216;Ubisoft Forward&#8217;, set to air at around the time E3 would have taken place, but others are forgoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}