This yr’s Tokyo Game Show conference, unsurprisingly, gained’t be happening.
Tokyo Game Show (TGS) 2020, beforehand set for September 24-27, won’t be internet hosting a bodily occasion this yr as a consequence of coronavirus. TGS organisers revealed, nonetheless, that there are plans to host an internet occasion instead.
This is the primary time in TGS historical past, since its inception in 1996, that the occasion has been cancelled. No specifics about mentioned digital substitute have been revealed as a part of at present’s announcement.
Though disappointing, the information isn’t actually surprising. Most of this yr’s main occasions in gaming and elsewhere have been cancelling. Just this week, Paris Games Week organisers confirmed that it won’t return this year.
The two greatest business occasions, E3 2020 and gamescom 2020 have each been cancelled, to say nothing of many different smaller gatherings, tournaments like EVO and the like.
It’s additionally doubly disappointing that TGS, basically the final main business occasion of the yr, will get cancelled in a console launch yr, however these are unprecedented circumstances.
