This is just Pach being Pach. M$ will not be launching another redesigned 360 anytime soon... the only thing that may change over the next year is some of its internal components, which M$ has been doing almost every year since its release with new chipsets and such.
And while he's right that the NextBox isn't coming out in 2012, he's also nuts if he things M$ is going to wait until sometime in 2014 to launch it. Holiday 2013 is where its at... he probably just doesn't want to say it for fear that M$ will get on his case because so many other business people in the industry do listen to him when it comes to the financial aspects of his analysis.
It's like when he said almost every year for the past 3 years that Nintendo was going to put out a "Wii HD"... I mean you knew eventually they were going to make an HD console, but Pach couldn't come right out and say it was gonna be all new, so he just throws out half-truths like it being an updated or redesigned Wii with the ability to output in HD. Of course, Nintendo did recently release an updated / redesigned Wii that dropped things like built in WiFi and GC backwards compatibility... the point being that Pach isn't just going to come out and tell you that Sony, M$ and Nintendo are planning on doing x y and z and spill their entire business strategies, because they'd revoke his "insider" privileges in a heartbeat. So instead he always pussyfoots around the issues and throws out half-truths so that if you read between the lines you can almost pick up on what he really means.
On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.
