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[statham]

I don't think they're waiting until June. Paul Thurrott said on Windows Weekly ages ago that he'd heard from a solid source that they were announcing it at an event in April. That was before Sony announced their PS4 press conference. He might be wrong, but he seemed very confident about it.

I just want an announcement of the announcement. nothing today it looks like. I want to know what Paul Thurrott meant by multiple skus, I get the impression its not harddrive sizes only.

and LOL@iceatcs

 

[Satchel]

360 is only console I own this gen.

Yeah, that's not true.

 

[ekim]

True, true.
As for the crazy part - I don't know if it should be that crazy. What I really want is an ARG / viral thing - I love those kind of things and the lack of it is a bit sad honestly.

I'm with you.
But what if the whole Durango stuff (Leaks, SuperDAE) is the ARG?

Spoiler

lol

 

[Leflus]

I'm with you.
But what if the whole Durango stuff (Leaks, SuperDAE) is the ARG?

Spoiler

lol

Makes sense. All will be revealed when we find the secret sauce.

 

[ekim]

Makes sense. All will be revealed when we find the secret sauce.

SuperDAE comes on stage and spills everything : "NVidia Grid IS the next Xbox"

 

[iceatcs]

Yeah, that's not true.

.

 

[Phonomezer]

Really now?

...

 

[statham]

nothing big, but it shows MS is starting to get their marketing together (if real)

 

[shinobi602]

nothing big, but it shows MS is starting to get their marketing together (if real)

 

[McHuj]

Probably talking about the Xbox720 part.

Where is allegedly this from?

 

[statham]

Probably talking about the Xbox720 part.

Where is allegedly this from?

saw it on reddit. guy doesn't say.

 

[sangreal]

that looks like it is from pepsico not MS

 

[infinityBCRT]

It looks like its 7-eleven's big promotions calendar. The Xbox 720 promotion goes from Nov 1 to Dec 31.

 

[Takuya]

that looks like it is from pepsico not MS

It's 7Eleven you can see it in the top right corner...

 

[sangreal]

It's 7Eleven you can see it in the top right corner...

oh, right

 

[DopeyFish]

I dunno if that's 7/11 or not, all products besides Xbox are Pepsi products

Pepsi is the one who does the game marketing, though. (Mountain few, usually)

Pepsi had a huggggge marketing thing for the 360 launch if anyone remembers... Getting the Xbox 360 before anyone else type of campaign

I will say this though, retailers usually don't know these things until 4~ weeks out and 7/11 is just one retailer of many so it's kinda confusing across the board

 

[infinityBCRT]

I dunno if that's 7/11 or not, all products besides Xbox are Pepsi products

Pepsi is the one who does the game marketing, though. (Mountain few, usually)

Pepsi had a huggggge marketing thing for the 360 launch if anyone remembers... Getting the Xbox 360 before anyone else type of campaign

I will say this though, retailers usually don't know these things until 4~ weeks out and 7/11 is just one retailer of many so it's kinda confusing across the board

Definitely 7/11. The current promotion on that pic is called "Energy Ambush". I found it on their website as well:

http://www.7-eleven.com/Only-at-7-Eleven/Promotions/Energy-Ambush/Default.aspx

complete with the same logo:

 

[Satchel]

Also, Microsoft isn't calling it the 720, so there's that.

 

[infinityBCRT]

Also, Microsoft isn't calling it the 720, so there's that.

I'm pretty sure that logo is the fake blue "Xbox 720" logo thats been floating around the net for a while. Someone who put together that slide probably just google image searched and pasted that image there. That being said, we don't know what it will be called. No one has confirmed it will or won't be called that.

So whether or not the console is called Xbox 720, its probably a real 7/11 presentation, and they probably are having an Xbox-Next promotion in November/December. If not, someone went through A LOT of trouble to fake that.

 

[diamount]

So when in April is this event supposed to be?

 

[sangreal]

Definitely 7/11. The current promotion on that pic is called "Energy Ambush". I found it on their website as well:

http://www.7-eleven.com/Only-at-7-Eleven/Promotions/Energy-Ambush/Default.aspx

complete with the same logo:
http://www.7-eleven.com/images/EnergyAmbush/img_footer.png

well even if it weren't their presentation, that row is labeled 7-11 themes or something. Anyways, I don't think it really matters. The news I guess is that someone, probably 7-11, is planning a marketing push in November. I think that surprises exactly nobody though

 

[jbug617]

So when in April is this event supposed to be?

26

 

[infinityBCRT]

So when in April is this event supposed to be?

There was a rumour from CVG saying it was going to be on April 26th. No one else has corroborated that, but a lot of people have said it will be announced in April.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

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I don't get it, is this supposed the 360 is the only console you own this gen?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/iceatcs/IMG_0971_zpsdd03b305.jpg

Your posts, as showcased earlier, suggest otherwise.

 

[ekim]

The site vanished from the google search index supporting my thesis that it was indexed implicitly from other sites linking to www.xboxevent.com

 

[ekim]

Interestingly... the sites is now again linked to an actual IP, which was not the case for the last 2 weeks when it first redirected to bing.com and then not even could be found. (no DNS entry but google search index entries)

The IP is the same as it was before that 2 weeks (64.85.67.139) and belongs to eventcore but this time SOA is still msft.

Spoiler

it's happening.gif

 

[derFeef]

I hope they do something before April 1st or the jokes will be horrible.

 

[ekim]

I hope they do something before April 1st or the jokes will be horrible.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=529359

 

[CrunchinJelly]

http://www.buildwindows.com/

June 26-28. Notice the Xbox logo. Paul Thurrott is speculating Xbox announce in April and they will hold Xbox dev sessions at Build in June.

 

[MCD]

http://www.buildwindows.com/

June 26-28. Notice the Xbox logo. Paul Thurrott is speculating Xbox announce in April and they will hold Xbox dev sessions at Build in June.

Because it's happening again
Because it's happening again
Because it's happening again

 

[Syphon Filter]

Potentially a month away!

 

[Doffen]

http://www.buildwindows.com/

June 26-28. Notice the Xbox logo. Paul Thurrott is speculating Xbox announce in April and they will hold Xbox dev sessions at Build in June.

They also had the Xbox logo last time.

 

[Maximilian Kolbe]

http://www.buildwindows.com/

June 26-28. Notice the Xbox logo. Paul Thurrott is speculating Xbox announce in April and they will hold Xbox dev sessions at Build in June.

So a event at April,then another event at E3(Early June),then another event again at late June?that's pretty intensive

Will they really planning release at September?

 

[Phonomezer]

http://www.buildwindows.com/

June 26-28. Notice the Xbox logo. Paul Thurrott is speculating Xbox announce in April and they will hold Xbox dev sessions at Build in June.

That website is vile.

 

[ekim]

Space Ponchos relate to Durango...
They get verbose.

Edit: I'm wrong. They gave out ponchos at the kinect reveal.

 

[ekim]

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1mByAgF0RrCY01TVWVRNzRiRkE/edit
comes from:
https://twitter.com/BoxAt1015

prolly fake...

 

[TheUnsunghero26]

^
Looks like a silhouette of a playstation controller on that first image.

 

[ekim]

lol... you're right.

 

[dragonelite]

^
Looks like a silhouette of a playstation controller on that first image.

No #TeamAsymmetrical betrayalton.
Ms i though we were buddies should have know better after halo4

 

[TriGen]

Yeah that's gotta be fake.

 

[ekim]

The code on the colored pages is written in Brainfuck (the programming language)

[ - ] > [ - ] <
> + + + + + + + + + [ < + + + + + + + + + > - ] < + + .
> + + + + + + [ < + + + + + + > - ] < - - - .
> + + [ < - - > - ] < - .
+ + + .
> + + [ < - - > - ] < - .
> + + + + + + + + + [ < - - - - - - - - - > - ] < + + + + .
> + + + + + + [ < + + + + + + > - ] < - .
> + + + + + + [ < + + + + + + > - ] < + + + + + .
+ + + .
> + + [ < + + > - ] < + + .
> + + + + [ < - - - - > - ] < - .
> + + + + [ < + + + + > - ] < - .

Translates to :

Storm Clouds

 

[El_Chino]

Isn't Microsoft having a investors call soon for the Fall quarter?

 

[Rösti]

Isn't Microsoft having a investors call soon for the Fall quarter?

Today. 2:30 PM PDT.

http://www.microsoft.com/investor/default.aspx
http://www.shareholder.com/visitors...tion.cfm?MediaID=54727&MediaUserID=0&player=1

I'll probably make a thread about it. Earnings results will be posted when the market closes.

 

[pswii60]

There are four images. Translated as follows:

Storm Clouds
More than now
Deep Computing
Petaflops>Teraflops

The last one makes me thinks this is seriously fake nonsense.

 

[ekim]

ok... it's fake - translation of all Brainfuck source there:
"Storm Clouds"
"More than Now"
"Deep Computing"
"Petaflops>Teraflops"

edit: beaten.

 

[dragonelite]

There are four images. Translated as follows:

Storm Clouds
More than now
Deep Computing
Petaflops>Teraflops

The last one makes me thinks this is seriously fake nonsense.

Add 300ms latency or so to it

 

[El_Chino]

Today. 2:30 PM PDT.

http://www.microsoft.com/investor/default.aspx
http://www.shareholder.com/visitors...tion.cfm?MediaID=54727&MediaUserID=0&player=1

I'll probably make a thread about it. Earnings results will be posted when the market closes.

Thanks! Any chance of getting news at all of this?

 

[ekim]

There are four images. Translated as follows:

Storm Clouds
More than now
Deep Computing
Petaflops>Teraflops

The last one makes me thinks this is seriously fake nonsense.

Or they talking cloud computing...

Spoiler

no they don't

 

[Phonomezer]

Do they all say the same thing?

 

[ekim]

Do they all say the same thing?

Nope:
Storm Clouds
More than now
Deep Computing
Petaflops>Teraflops