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

[Shinobi-san]

superchunk said:

Shinobi-san said:

I think its obvious that the E3 got mixed with the reveal event. This was not a prediction but insider information which can obviously change at any time.

There was also rumours that MS was not going to do a reveal event and that they will wait for E3. It was only until recently when we started getting concrete rumours about the console reveal event.

Other than that the information highlighted in the OP is correct. And as far as im aware no1 else went out their way to highlight the complete focus on media and lack of games, which is exactly what happened at the reveal.

I think we should give credit where credit is due. I mean it's literally impossible to prove these things and DS got pretty much everything correct. Also this is from Feb!

MS stated before their reveal that it would only focus on OS and services. Games would be at E3.

Yes the OP info could of clearly got E3 vs reveal mixed, but the OPs point is that it won't have any games because MS is way behind. That is not proven or disproven yet and I personally think will be wrong come E3.

As I pointed out in my post, I have a thread (that I recently talked about being right on) that did state MS would have as big or larger focus on media/entertainment as it will on games.

Additionally quite a few of us always maintained that MS would have to have a reveal prior to E3. Its just too obvious to not happen.

When E3 comes, if almost no games are slated for launch beyond the common multiplats, then yes OPs source was spot on.

Personally, I also think this PS4 and WiiU threads are factually wrong. Especially the WiiU thread.

This was done in Feb Superchunk. It was rumoured then that MS would not do a pre E3 reveal. At that point in time there was no reveal event.

So take all the information from the OP and apply it to the reveal not E3. Obviously things changed over the months. Actual rumours of the pre e3 event only came up recently as in rumours from insiders, not random guesses from people on forums. Theres a difference.

And yeah MS didnt show much games at the reveal so i think OP was correct for the reveal. Whether E3 shows games or not is irrelevant.

And to be honest nobody saw the complete focus on multimedia coming. Nobody. Yeah people were saying it would have great multimedia capabilities..but not a single person predicted the complete and total focus on that aspect of the console for almost the entire reveal event. Which amazingly enough is exactly what happend...plus almost zero focus on games.

Both of us can probably spin this to suite our opinion but imo this is already done and the OP's info seems 100% correct and validated as of right now. If you choose to take the OP as is and not assume things obviously changed since Feb internally at MS then thats your own thing i guess. I dont see how anyone can prove they have insider info then if thats the case.

Not sure why you bringing up the other threads that is not being discussed here.