jetsetfluken
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Stuff has always leaked even before the Internet. There are going to be megatons at E3 this year believe me. I know of 1 big thing that only a few people ere have even come close to guessing. E3 will be very fun.
Anticlimactic would be announcing it less than 24 hours before Sony announces their console at the same event. You get lost in all the noise.
Announcing before E3 get you out with the initial details and gets you the full attention of the media. Then, days/weeks later you show off more and release further details at E3.
I hope you're right about the megatons. But it's just worrisome, that maybe someone that has the same info as you, will spill the beans.
You have a point with the gradual tease strategy instead of full-blown reveal announcement, but MS could make it work. We're at a time where the market is starved for "new and shocking", where we've been regurgitating the same-old. An announcement at a small event is still much smaller than the big E3 week.
The Wii U was met with meager excitement and even now it's actually released and is kind of an after-thought (at the moment). Nintendo announced that and did the gradual tease strategy with the more "detailed" info at the next year's E3, and again, the console launch was met with meager excitement. It isn't the "new and shocking" that this starved consumer market is after at the moment.
The gradual tease strategy there met the common media with articles about a "new Wii" just as a gradual tease will get some initial buzz about a "new Xbox" but maybe forgotten after. Instead of a giant blast of a reveal all at once, with other announcements drawing attention to that one, and vice versa. It's the same industry, after all.
There needs to be some big things and I hope you're right with the mystery megatons, but I have faith a gigantic reveal for both alone will really re-light that wick for many becomingly apathetic consumer base and industry.
Minds will be blown by the software. Not some random numbers...
I was implying an early announcement which would more or less feature some kind of software or at least visual teases. They won't just come out and say "The Xbox Next is coming and it has 678897987987 TFlops and 32 GB RAM."