It seems like early-mid June is going to be rather busy in the games industry. There's E3 2021 on the horizon, and it's now emerged that the Geoff Keighley-led Summer Game Fest is set to gazump its rival by a couple of days.
Though Summer Game Fest will be throughout June and beyond (and lists the E3-centric Ubisoft Forward among relevant events), it'll get ahead of E3 with a 'spectacular live world premiere showcase', which will include performances from Weezer, Day of the Devs and more. It's scheduled for 10th June at 2pm ET / 11am PT / 6pm GMT.
Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Keighley said the following about the kick-off event.
The idea is that we will have a big kick-off show this year. Everything last year was so spread apart by nature of the pandemic. And the feedback from everyone is that they want these games shows all together. So, now we are going to just do a big full-on show for Summer Games Fest that leads into the big publisher events. Which is hopefully more of what people wanted, where things are more condensed and combined together. So people have a date and a time to show up for news. That's what we are going for.
In terms of confirmed publishers involved in the course of the festival, the following are inked in - 2K, Activision, Amazon Games, Annapurna Interactive, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Battlestate Games, Blizzard Entertainment, Capcom, Devolver Digital, Dotemu, Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Finji, Frontier, Gearbox Publishing, Hi-Rez Studios, Inner Sloth, Koch Media, Mediatonic, MiHoYo, PlayStation, Psyonix, Raw Fury, Riot Games, Saber Interactive, Sega, Steam, Square Enix, Tribeca Festival, Tencent Games, Warner Bros, Ubisoft, Wizards of the Coast and Xbox.
No Nintendo involvement in this particular event, notably, though it is planning an E3 appearance.
It should be interesting to follow, in any case. Are you looking forward to this year's Summer Game Fest?
[source gamesindustry.biz]
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The wording on all this is so funny, all while trying to undercut and piggyback off E3...
Maybe Nintendo doesn't have a Direct at E3 after all and it's just something like a Smash Presentation.
Nice that they've decided to condense and make one main event. Last year was pretty fun, but then there were some events people had completely no interest in. This time we could still get a short announcement in the show, and for those wanting more they could organise longer presentations later in the summer.
Nintendo having nothing to do with it makes me feel a little less interested than I am with E3.
I'll just wait for the Switch-related announcements to be posted here. There's no sense tempting myself with games for a system I can't afford.
@Grumblevolcano
How does Nintendo not participating in SGF deconfirm an E3 Direct?
as expected Nintendo is not in this event and when Nintendo is gonna do her tradicional E3 Direct Presentation?
@Grumblevolcano Or it could be that Nintendo has no need to appear at Summer Games Fest, since they're appearing at e3, and doing their thing there? Nintendo didn't appear last year at Summer Game Fest, and not to mention the thing is happening 2 days before e3. Why would Nintendo do something there, when they'll be doing something else 2 days after?
@westman98 Summer Game Fest promotes other events as part of it like last year the PS5 event, the Xbox events, etc. were all promoted as part of Summer Game Fest so E3 2021 will probably be promoted as part of Summer Game Fest.
@Grumblevolcano
This year, SGF will be its own livestream, independent from E3.
@westman98 The June 10th stream is the beginning of Summer Game Fest, not the whole thing.
@Grumblevolcano
Sure, and E3 isn't part of SGF (it's not mentioned on their website).
I also find it very difficult to believe Nintendo would pay the ESA hundreds of thousands of dollars just to show a Smash Presentation and nothing else, when they could just air a Smash Presentation at their own time with no ESA involvement, like how they have been doing over the last 2+ years.
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