SELL wants to make it a multi-site event like the Games

With 188,000 visitors for this 2024 edition, Paris Games Week is struggling to regain its health before the COVID crisis (317,000 visitors in 2019). It must be said that the current rather gloomy context in video games does not help publishers and manufacturers to push the show upwards. Between Sony Interactive Entertainment almost absent, and which only focused on an experience around Astro Bot, the absence of Square Enix or even Electronic Arts this year, the aisles were significantly less crowded than in the past . An observation that SELL, the organizer of the show, has noted and which will allow it to change things for years to come. Speaking to France Info, Nicolas Vignolles (general delegate of SELL) and organizer of Paris Games Week, explains that we need to rethink the show. He would like to see an event inspired by the Olympic Games with a ticket that would go to several sites throughout Paris.

“Video games need recognition, to be put at the top. It is the leading creative and cultural industry in the world and in France, it needs recognition. My ambition at the PGW is to put it at the forefront. high. So we have to think together, we have to be very open. But yes, we will undoubtedly close the somewhat classic PG that we have. We have to renew it, we have to rethink it. I dream of something a little crazy, which may not take place, but which I would like to try, with a multi-site ticket for four or five days, which would give access to several places in Paris, with the capital which would be dressed in video game colors and pop culture.”

A Paris Games Week which would be highlighted throughout the capital and located in several iconic places would undoubtedly make it possible to celebrate video games and pop culture in a more spectacular way, but it would be necessary to manage to move its communities throughout the city, and that is clearly not something won… In the meantime, we remember that

Rachida Dati, Minister of Culture, provided strong support to the sector, by reinforcing the video game tax credit, an economic pillar for the development of the industry in France. His pro-attractive and pro-business speech was highly appreciated by all professionals. Gabriel Attal, outgoing Prime Minister, also came to wander the aisles of the show and notably test Dragon Ball Sparking Zero, which he has the quality of “chicken”. He is indeed the codes of his own generation.