MS sent Devkits out before Sony, they're just bididng their time if anything. A multi announce/release seems more likely than them not being ready.

My body is ready.

First off showing the actual console case means nothing, second they are planning a launch for this year's holiday so yes, why wouldn't someone believe that. The games are running on PS4 hardware regardless of the box that will be shipped to consumers, don't be fooled. Though I might agree showing the final console style would have been nice it doesn't change what it is inside, and maybe, maybe they can get more hype by holding off the look till a later date, and if not they seem to be doing a damn good job regardless.

The issues isn't MS not announcing right now, the issue is MS not annoucing while Sony takes advantage of the spotlight. Each day that goes by and each next gen game announcement that has been dying to announce gives the PS4 more press. It isn't as much as when they announce as it does "when" they announce, and delaying it is just exasperating the situation they are in. But as I said maybe it isn't a big deal in the long run, but it sure seems like a big deal in the here and now. Perhaps it is better to announce when things quite down...if they do. Their competition is getting all the press and no one can mention Xbox 3 at all. That itself is an issue. Why MS would give Sony time like this is beyond me. Hell, MS could have an awesome console but believe me, they aren't doing themselves any favors.

Well you know, all that but I really really want to know. It's killing me.

The 360 actually needed that headstart on Sony because the PS2 was the beast.  This gen is different because MS was able to make the 360 a household name and thus sits very well with MS releasing their console at the same time. 

What I do not understand is why people feel MS has to knee jerk respond to Sony reveal.  Before Sony reveal, it was rumored that MS reveal would be in April.  If this rumor was correct would it not look desperate for MS to change their plans to announce something in respond.  How can MS be caught off guard if they already have a plan and is just sticking to it. These consoles will not be coming out until November, which is plenty of time to get your message out and counter your competition.

usually in business if you are able to force your competitor to reveal their stragety first then you have the advantage.  Case in point would be the 360.  MS Had to get it to market first because going up against the PS brand at the same time would not end well.

Sending dev kits early means absolutely nothing when not being prepared for a reveal in April (dev kits change, issues come up etc). I'm guessing sony reveal caught them off guard. But yep waiting until they properly ready for a reveal is the best way to go

First off I said showing a WORKING console with games playing on it not a PC in the background.  What would MS gain by a knee jerk reaction to the PS4 reveal.  When neither product will be out until late November what does it matter if the PS4 has the spotlight now.  Once MS reveal the nextbox everything resets.  Either MS will be able to demo a console that either competes or exceed the PS4 or it will not.  There will be plenty of media coverage, breakdown of features, hardware and software specs for anyone to make a decision on what system they want.

It does not look like MS. Is losing out on anything because it seems people are looking for any info.  When MS does make there reveal, it probably will have more people tuned in because people, new sites will want to see their answer.  It seems to me that there is so much hype to see what MS response to Sony than what Sony is doing. 

Might as well just show it at E3 at this point. It'll let them go all out with it too. Specs, price, launch titles, you name it.

I figure out whatever time MS reply,half hour later or 50 years later,some people will still say "sony reveal caught them off guard."

So why don't just say"i hope they never announce anything"?lol

Thats called PR and Sony would do the same. Of course Microsoft is worried about what Sony offers and they are probably adding something last minute in with this delay.

lol worried

I've thinking the same thing forever now, there's simply no way they'd actually go through with 1.2tflop GPU rumour AFTER the PS4, the 1.84 is frankly already budget enough.

It wouldn't surprise me if they've decided to opt for a downclocked 8970m that would probably be released at the end of the year since the PS4 GPU is basically a downclocked 7970m, it couldn't cost that much more longterm.

And frankly, there's a part of me that expects Sony to follow suit, and leave us with two consoles that are literally the same under the hood.