[flohofwoe]

I think E3 was already kind of an hollowed out husk in the years before, for instance Sony already skipped and did their own thing in 2019: https://gamerant.com/sony-skip-e3-2019-why/

This article also reads like the writing was already on the wall: https://www.indiewire.com/2020/06/e3-uncertain-future-gaming...

Covid at most accelerated its death by a year or two.

[MBCook]

All it really did was officially prove nothing bad happened when E3 wasn’t held. Which almost everyone seemed to have already suspected.