Prediction made in February: Microsofts NextBox is a region locked media box with few games... *Revisited*

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DanneSandin said:

As you might have seen as of late I have claimed to have inside information of the gaming industry. I have tried to make people understand why Nintendo isn't getting any 3rd party support and I have made bold (but fairly vague wording to protect my source) predictions for Sony's upcoming e3.

And now I have inside information of Microsoft and their next Xbox. And it's no pretty read. Brace yourself.

First of all, this is nothing I'm actually predicting, but what I've heard from my source from a 3rd party developer working on nextGen titles...

Microsoft will apparently be focusing their e3 presentation around the media functionality of the NextBox, because they don't have too many games ready.

The 720 will also be region locked...

And it will launch with VERY FEW games.

I'll try to put this in the same way as my source put it to me (I don't know if this is speculation or what is actually happening right now over at MS): "They're running around shitting their pants [...] They fucked up."

With the little information I have right now the 720 will look VERY disappointing to a great many people. BUT, I also would like to point out that this certainly must be subject for change, and if the situation changes I will let you know.

Okay. For a moment let us assume that I believe you. How credible is your source? Yes he is a developer, but are you sure he is close enough to get decent information? I'm not interested in details since if true then you have to protect your source, but I just want to know how certain you are that this person who is divulging 'information' is not just selling you dreams.