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Xbox 720 a No-show At This Year's E3

Posted by timothy on from the tony-hawk's-graduated-to-bigger-numbers-too dept.

itwbennett writes "Microsoft dropped a bomb yesterday: they won't be showing new hardware this year or 'anytime soon.' Microsoft told Kotaku that '2012 is all about Xbox 360.' Meanwhile, Bloomberg's mysterious sources are saying that Microsoft 'may show the successor to its Xbox 360 in June 2013 at the E3 conference and put it on sale that same year.' This would 'be a fast journey from announcement to launch,' says Peter Smith, 'but it'd mean we'd still get a new Xbox for holiday 2013, which is about the earliest anyone has expected it to arrive anyway.'"

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  1. Null press release by tomhath · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft issues a press release to announce that they're not going to announce anything. And it makes the headlines of Slashdot. And I'm reading it on a Friday night. That's it, I'm off to drink beer, even if it isn't free.

  2. Wait'll next year! by R3d+M3rcury · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bloomberg's Mysterious Source: Microsoft will show the Xbox 720 this year!
    Microsoft: No we won't.
    Bloomberg's Mysterious Source: Microsoft will show the Xbox 720 next year!

    Next we'll hear that Microsoft was planning on showing it this year, but something happened at the last minute and they couldn't. So the rumor-monger wasn't wrong--it was a last minute change.

    Gads, they're as bad as the Apple rumor mongers.