20 Most WTF Video Game Moments Of The PS4, Xbox One & Nintendo Switch Generation

For literally decades, E3 has been the Super Bowl of the gaming industry, that glorious week every summer where publishers converge to blow gamers away with their new titles.

And while E3 may not technically be dead as of 2020, its signs of life have slowed to a faint heartbeat at best for a multitude of reasons.

For starters, Nintendo stopped holding a physical stage show years back, and in recent years both Sony and EA have backed away from the traditional pomp-filled conferences, with Sony even skipping out on last year's E3 entirely.

In 2017 E3 was opened to the general public in an attempt to rejuvenate interest, though agonising queues and a general excess of people left journalists and fans alike annoyed.

This year E3 was cancelled for obvious reasons, which many have signalled as the probable death knell for an institution whose relevance was already waning, and whose parent company couldn't even keep journalist data private.

This isn't to say that future E3s won't happen, but with the reduced costs of virtual events this year, publishers are likely coming to appreciate how utterly unnecessary these lavish feted unveilings actually are.

In short, if E3 does survive it'll likely be a far more modest event, as companies pivot to their own Nintendo Direct-style virtual reveals throughout the year.