With E3 coming to an end, Gamescom became the biggest game show of the summer, but this year's Gamescom will be missing one key player: Nintendo. Nintendo's official spokesperson confirmed to several media outlets that Nintendo will not participate in Gamescom 2024.
An official Nintendo spokesperson said that Gamescom is a great event, and every year Nintendo evaluates whether they should attend or not, and this year, after careful consideration in many aspects, Nintendo has decided not to participate in Gamescom 2024. However, players will have the opportunity to experience the fun of Switch games at other events this year.
Nintendo's absence from Gamescom 2024 is a sad affair, as Nintendo has been an exhibitor at Gamescom in the past. However, as the Switch has gone through 7 years, this console launched in the middle of the eighth generation has also entered the end of its life cycle. There are more and more rumors that the successor to the Switch will be launched this year, and on this premise, Nintendo may also be trying to make the news of the new console public at its own mature launch event. At the same time, compared with the first-party main works such as "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom" and "Super Mario Bros. Surprise" in 2023, this year's Nintendo is still dominated by "horse characters", and many of them are cold rice remakes, which may be one of the reasons why Nintendo is absent from Gamescom 2024.