It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, but this year's Tokyo Games Show will not take the form of a physical event this year. The expo scheduled for late September will now follow in the footsteps of other industry conventions by taking the digital route to deliver news and information on upcoming games.
The Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association issued a statement, saying:
Due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on a global scale and the situation remains unpredictable in Japan as well, the organizer and the co-organizers have reached this decision after a long consideration to place the utmost priority on the health and safety of visitors, exhibitors and stakeholders. We ask for your kind understanding and cooperation.
Sony has attended many iterations of the Tokyo Games Show in the past so it'll be interesting to see if this affects the Japanese giant's plans in a significant way. With the PlayStation 5 still scheduled to launch at the end of this year, you have to assume that the hardware manufacturer would have had the console on the show floor for attendees to demo.
[source gematsu.com]
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Going online is the route to go these days.
It's unfortunate, but the safety of the staff and visitors and everyone involved has to come first.
Hopefully the digital event works out. I usually look forward to this more than e3. I need my dose of Japanese game trailers :[
This might be the strongest start to push the industry to go Digital. Even Geoff Keighley is pushing his own Summer Game Fest to convince the industry that Digital events is the best possible way to go moving onwards.
@Judal27 Same here, I will always love me some anime and Japanese gaming.
@louieverr I truly hope conventions will start offering more digital options in the future.
However I don't want physical cons to also die out...once COVID has effective vaccines I'd love to go to another convention.
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