Why didn't MS leave the pricecut and app announcement for their E3 conference?

[sales2099]

DerNebel said:

sales2099 said:
It was said, but they want to show games and only games. They got the services and sku crap out of the way.

Where as "others" will waste time talking about features and hardware, MS will just focus on what games it has coming. They want to win the online forums after E3 settles. Core gamer word of mouth baby.

I'm sorry but I just don't believe that.

A pricecut and this whole thing with the entertainment apps (which apparently was a really big deal for some people considering it got 23k upvotes on Reddit), would have only made their E3 presentation better in the eyes of the core gamer and it wouldn't have taken long at all.

Also it is just too much of a coincidence in my mind that the new SKU comes out at the day of the conference, maybe they originally planned on revealing it at E3.

Phil Spencer did say May would be a great month for news.....and he ain't kidding. This was calculated. MS didn't have to annoucne this all, but they did. They have some plan in place, what it is we don't know.

Guess the logic is that while great news, they are just business polocies that Sony allready has done. It is great news for Xbox fans, but non-news to prospective buyers and gamers in general.