Kinda what Nintendo did with their early 2013 Nintendo Direct?

Yeah possible, but I honestly question the effectiveness of announcing games that are over 2 years away from launch at this point in time, CGI/Teaser trailers for games that are that far away and that aren't part of huge franchises really have a hard time of grabbing people's attention, look at Scalebound for example the trailer for that doesn't even have 600k views and that was pretty much the most hyped of the 3 CGI trailers shown by MS last year.

Maybe they will announce more exclusive money hating title like Tomb Rider, i don't know what , you can guess. But i doubt they will just announce tittle from last year. Microsoft is full of pride, they will not just let everything slip to SONY favor this year, they have the budget and if you are working with SONY i bet you will not underestimate them.

maybe but i'd bet against is.  publishers just can't afford to ignore (even for a while) the biggest audience.  as ps4's lead grows the cost of MS to money hat a game gets bigger and bigger.  at some point (even if ms can "afford" it) it's just a waste of money for ms.  a timed exclusive won't make people switch consoles,.. i'll just wait my 6 months to get tomb raider.   an exclusive or 2 helps more but a AAA exclusive won't come cheap.  ms would have to pay the entire development cost most likely.  an indie exclusive will mean nothing.

frankly, ms's best opion if they want to invest in xbox long term is to do what sony did during the ps3 gen.   buy/create more first party studios.  it's the cheapest most reliable way to get exclusive games for your system and does a lot to excite the fanbases. 

As I said before, I think Microsoft's press conferences will be predictable with some surprises here and there.

- Halo 5
- Forza 6
- Rise of the Tomb Raider
- Scalebound
- Quantum Break
- Crackdown 3
- Gears 4 announcement
- Gears of War I Remaster
- The Division
- Rare's new IP(s)
- Phantom Dust re-announcement
- Another big 3rd-party game (likely Assassin's Creed again)

you forgot the gears remaster,.. i expect it to ship with a demo/beta access to gears 4.

you forgot windows 10,.. i think they'll spend a significant chuck of time on that and what it means.  i expect you'll hear a PR phrase like "window's 10 is enabling hundreds of games to be brought to xbox" and they will list the 2 or 3 games that are worth mentioning. 

I just added the Gears remaster to the list :p

As for Windows 10, in terms for the XB1, I think it's going to be an OS overhaul/redesign + added compatability with Windows apps.

I agree with you to an extent. The line up is already so comprehensive its difficult to conceive there are a great many more unnannounced major titles landing in the next 18 months.

As much as i agree with u, but reality is not that simple. I just guessing what will be the worst possible situation. Actually i hate money hating title as well. But we are talking about Microsoft here , If it's not SONY making the first move Microsoft will, i don't want to feel safe with SONY current situation like when FF 13 was announced back then for PS3 exclusively and in the end becoming multiplat (it really hurt my feeling honestly ) and Tales Vesperia exclusive on Xbox One in US is ridiculous movement by Microsoft. Microsoft is good for pissing of SONY camp like how they good pissing their own fanbase with DRM.

Going to be a solid showing from MS if they show the majority of that.

I don't see how they can reboot Battletoads tbh. Unless its a smaller digital only beat`em up or something.