they announced the 360 in may (yes earlier to some people but officially with specs and stuff in may), not sure why they should do it much ealier this time just because sony did it. as if it would make such a difference for the console itself if a small part of gamers already talk about it on internet forums.
devs will know already some stuff about the nextbox, maybe even as much as they know about ps4, the rest is not that important 8 months or so before release.
i mean, most of the people on vgc and other sites already know which console or consoles they will buy, it's not as if most of the people here will buy a ps4 instead of a nextbox because of the earlier announcement, they knew it already way before the ps4 announcement and outside of this forum world it's important to be in the news weeks before release and not now.
