Microsoft has revealed more information about next week's highly-anticipated Xbox Games Showcase event this afternoon, including that an Xbox Series X price reveal is unlikely to feature.
In an update on Twitter, GM of Xbox Games Marketing Aaron Greenberg acknowledged that there have been some "wild expectations," and clarified that the show will be focused entirely on games rather than "business, devices or similar news." Basically, it sounds like we won't be getting any pricing or Xbox Series S announcements!
Greenberg also mentioned that the event will include world premieres and updated looks at some of the games Microsoft has already revealed, while the pre-show (beginning one hour prior) will feature reveals, predictions, insights and more on some already-announced titles coming to Xbox.
The Xbox Games Showcase will be available to watch on YouTube (1080p/60fps followed by a 4K/60fps VOD), Twitch, Facebook and Twitter, and we'll naturally be covering it here at Pure Xbox as well. The main show begins on on Thursday, July 23rd at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm BST / 6pm CEST and will last around an hour.
Happy about this, or were you hoping for pricing / Series S information? Let us know below.
[source news.xbox.com, via twitter.com]
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They'll reveal the price of series x in august when they reveal lockhart..
@Bmartin001 Yeah, agreed. It wouldn't make sense to reveal the Series X price ahead of the Series S reveal.
Can't wait!!!
I don't care when they announce the Price or Lockhart. It doesn't matter to me as they aren't releasing in the next month and not buying Lockhart in any case...
I'd like to see them knock this out of the park. Would be great for consumers if all three major consoles were firing on all cylinders next generation.
I’m still dubious about the Lockhart. Something tells me, at least for now, it might just be a server rack. XCloud is not meant to stream 4k, not yet anyways, but they would want ray racing and all the higher performance to hit XCloud quick and on an economically scalable way.
A slightly cheaper console, that can only push 1080p, but otherwise equal, with lower thermal requirements due to being confined to a cool data center, sounds like the kind of device MS would want to build for their own XCloud hosting use.
It could still be sold to end users, without the advantage of lower thermal requirements.
@Tharsman Xcloud will upgrade to new Xbox Series X server blades from next year, this is already revealed during the hardware reveal. That server blade can run 4 instances of Xbox One S with multiple times better encoding.
This is good, bc I just want to hear about games.
This whole price reveal staring contest is so tedious. And that's coming from someone who gonna drop double or triple what both next gen consoles combined on a new PC soon.
It's just annoying at this point.
@zane547 I'm not even looking at it bigger picture style. I'm just sick of every 2nd article on every website being made into it when it may even have practically nothing to do with it.
@Menchi Nowhere near as tedious as Nintendo's silence. With Paper Mario out today, Nintendo now has exactly 0 upcoming games with release dates at this point.
"Greenberg also mentioned that the event will include include..."
A glitch in the Matrix. 😫
I don't mind this logic!
@Grumblevolcano And Paper Mario is their second game this year after Animal Crossing that was scheduled for 2019. The other games in the first half of the year are ports and a mini games compilation.
@Grumblevolcano I find it hard to care about Nintendo, they've been disasterously handling everything since the N64, so it's just business as usual.
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