Why  does everything have to be a battle?  

Because that's what it is: A battle for our hard earned cash.

Doesn't EA have a stand? I can't find it for some reason.

Also, I noticed how sony and activision pretty much had 10000 meeting rooms each in the middle building there, while the likes of nintendo had none. Odd.

Well that ended quickly!  

Anyway they are the same as ever.  If MS did infact downsize then that's the real news here. 

So this is a weird thread, is this a normal discussion to have prior to the E3?

Bad for MS and good for Nintendo.

You'd think with the showfloor being open to the public for once theyd want even more space to give people hands-on opportunities with Scorpio. Not sure exactly how to read this move, but I struggle to think of anything positive. Whatever they announce probably isn't coming out for a long while, they must not have much playable at the moment.

Well now I have seen everything. Fans now declaring who wins E3 just by floor space...ok then.

I personally think otherwise, more floor space means more empty spaces !

It's all speculative of course, but I feel like a downsize shows either a reduction in scale or confidence from Microsoft HQ. I've wondered for a long time how the heads of the company as a whole have been viewing the entire devision lately. Impossible to know for sure, but the company is so large, and relies on so many vaster products and services that Xbox could be viewed as expendable. I wouldn't want that to happen, but maybe MS is writing Xbox smaller checks for stuff like this these days.