Nintendo will not be part of Gamescom this year

The headlines surrounding the Japanese video game company Nintendo have been piling up lately. Many employees have only recently sserious allegations against the company. In addition, Saudi Arabia has bought five percent of Nintendo. In addition, they are in the process of having numerous game soundtracks removed from YouTube. Nintendo’s latest genius prank is now not at the Participate in Gamescom 2022.

Gamescom this year without Nintendo

In fact, the Japanese video game developer will not be participating in the world’s largest games fair this year. “For Nintendo, Gamescom is a central event in the event calendar. This year, however, after careful consideration, we decided against participating in Cologne.”according to the official statement from Nintendo of Europe games economy.

Instead, you want in the frame Germany-wide events provide the ability to schedule Switch games. “Roadshows” are currently planned at locations such as the SWR Summer Festival and the Stuttgart Children’s and Youth Festival. But Nintendo wants to be present at the Main Matsuri Japan Festival in Frankfurt and the AnimagiC in Mannheim. Further dates are to follow. One could be this month Nintendo Direct occur. Because the publisher has been doing his own thing for a long time and is not part of events like E3 or that Summer Game Fest.

Gamescom 2022 finally with an audience again

Gamescom will be this year from August 24th to 28th take place in the Cologne exhibition halls. For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, visitors will also be strolling through the halls again. The organizers want this, among other things wider aisles and a improved admission management to implement. In the course of this, there should only be a limited number of visitors. Incidentally, the trade fair will be opened by the Federal Minister of Economics, Robert Habeck.