The North American publisher is pessimistic through Twitter, a message that suggests a possible cancellation of the angel fair.
Returning Digital has blown up all the alarms this morning with a message that does not encourage you to think about optimism: "Cancel your flights and hotels for E3, everyone." More than 13,000 "likes" in less than five hours and a number of professionals who support, without official confirmation through, that the E3 2020 will announce its cancellation in the coming dates; because, presumably, because of fear of Wuhan's coronavirus (COVID-19).
Also, journalist Jason Schreier says he has sources that say "it is a matter of time" that the cancellation of E3 is announced. "Publishers can't wait much longer to make their plans." Wario64, who usually advances leaked information from the videogame sector on Twitter, also believes that the announcement of the cancellation is a matter of hours. For more inri, developer Mike Futter also makes it clear: "cancel your plans."
Cancel your E3 flights and hotels, y’all.
– Return Digital (@devolverdigital) March 11, 2020
The organization has not responded to this information on the date of publication of this news.
State of emergency in Los Angeles; ESA studies the situation
The message of the North American publisher comes only a few days after iam8bit, which was going to be in charge of the creative production of a fair that wants to reinvent itself, announce that they had renounced that role and that their relationship with ESA, at least in This edition of E3 2020 – planned for June 9, 10 and 11 – had come to an end.
Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles County, California, has been quarantined for days. They declared a state of emergency after registering the first deaths and, in the last hours, the spread of the virus in the western part of the United States begins to be increasing. For its part, the E3 organization, the ESA (Entertainment Software Association) has repeatedly explained how it wants to evolve a fair to "live up to it."
His latest official statements ruled out a possible cancellation, but acknowledged studying the situation minute by minute: "Although ESA maintains its plan to celebrate a successful E3 from June 9 to 11, we are monitoring and evaluating the situation daily."
The situation around the coronavirus has had a severe impact on the stock market of the main video game companies. According to the Ministry of Health in Spain, the progress of the disease in our country already leaves 36 dead and more than 1680 infected, with more than 10,000 cases in Italy, the main focus in Italy. In China, on the other hand, the growth curve is getting smaller, indicating that propagation is being contained through extreme measures.
