I've always tried to watch the Microsoft E3 Press Conference live, but it hasn't always been so easy. You'd have to watch a live stream online and it would always be a little janky. Over the past few weeks I have gotten so many emails about how I can watch the press conference live, commercial free, on Spike. Major Nelson keeps tweeting about it also. I just feel a significant announcement is coming. Does anyone else feel this way? What do you guys think it could be? 
 
I doubt it's Xbox 720 because Kinect just came out, but all signs point to the contrary. 

I see it too. 
 
First Kojima goes full blown 360, then he shows the next-gen engine on 360, and now for the real surprises on Monday.

I bet you a billion brad bucks you're wrong

I bet they will make a big deal about Konami's HD collections coming to the platform.  As for surprises, I want it to remain a surprise.

Microsoft exclusive!  Duke Nukem Forever Multiplayer maps exclusive to X-Box live for the first week of their release!!!!!

Nah, they just want to create hype around the games they will announce at E3.

your name is green hence the eager excitement for what will essentially just be a show full of kinect announcements. 

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@foggel: Which is pretty much everyone does anyway.  That's what E3 is about.

As much as I'd love for them to announce their next console, I'm 99.9% sure that they won't. I think they are going to wait and see how things play out for Nintendo and possibly Sony if they announce before Microsoft; testing the water so to speak.

I hope they have something big. I love surprises.

I honestly don't think they'll have anything mind blowing. However, anything "big" they might possibly have, is probably a last-minute thing they cobbled together to so they can take away at least a little attention off Nintendo and Sony. 

The only "next-gen" console we'll see this year is Nintendo's. Considering it's as powerful as a PS3, I'm abstaining from calling it "next-gen". The PS4 and the next Xbox will be true next-gen consoles.

Look at how the internet works these days. Do you really think we wouldn't already know about a Next box when the NGP, Cafe, 3DS PSPGO and the 360 slim were all figured out before their companies wanted to show them?
 
They cant even keep their games a surprise (MW3) let alone a whole console. There's a lot of people involved in that chain and all it takes is one guy, be it factory line worker or middle manager to want to make some money/recognition and everybody knows about it before its official announcement. 
 
There has been ZERO buzz about a new xbox at this years E3.

The announcements they have planned are big for them.
 
Hope you like Kinect.

@AuthenticM said:

The only "next-gen" console we'll see this year is Nintendo's. Considering it's as powerful as a PS3, I'm abstaining from calling it "next-gen". The PS4 and the next Xbox will be true next-gen consoles.

And where did you hear it's as powerful as a PS3? 

Microsoft exclusive!  Duke Nukem Forever Multiplayer maps exclusive to X-Box live for the first week of their release!!!!!

Well I'd think we should just hold off on rumors, and just wait till they show something at E3.

@AuthenticM said:

The only "next-gen" console we'll see this year is Nintendo's. Considering it's as powerful as a PS3, I'm abstaining from calling it "next-gen". The PS4 and the next Xbox will be true next-gen consoles.

And where did you hear it's as powerful as a PS3? 

And I feel like they won't have diddly squat. Probably more Kinect BS and some Gears 3 and Forza 4. Maybe some exclusive DLC crap as well. 

I think;  
 
A giant Halo font '4' Flashes at the end. WITHOUT the Xbox 360 logo and closes with a big  'Coming 2013'. 

And I feel like they won't have diddly squat. Probably more Kinect BS and some Gears 3 and Forza 4. Maybe some exclusive DLC crap as well. 

MS has no face since J Mallard left and all their remaining puppeteers look like complete dopey shills. The product better be good because the presenters are going to be total shit.

The announcements they have planned are big for them.  Hope you like Kinect.

@Enigma777 said:

And I feel like they won't have diddly squat. Probably more Kinect BS and some Gears 3 and Forza 4. Maybe some exclusive DLC crap as well. 

This is what I've been betting these last few weeks with my brother. He thinks new console (possibly handheld, though I HIGHLY doubt that), I think either Kinect games or some sort of new addition to Kinect to make surfing Netflix ALMOST AS EASY AS USING A CONTROLLER!! (Because, let's be honest, there are no games coming out.)

But what about those of us that didn't buy and will never buy a Kientect?

Viva Piñata: Kinect Edition

@MattBosten: that alone would make me buy a kinect :')

Microsoft are likely going to focus on the media aspects of the 360.. Streaming interactive TV, adding stereoscopic 3D to future games and so forth. The other big focus will be on Kinect, apparently with them trying to focus on more of a hardcore audience.. which will be interesting. There are certain games I'd love to see for Kinect, things like Viva Pinata or Black & White would work brilliantly with the set up, and I can definitely see Rare bringing back some of their older franchises now that the 360 has found a more family friendly market.. things like Viva Pinata and Banjo might actually sell well.

For more traditional games, I think we'll be seeing more of the "better with kinect" logo. Forza 4 plays with a standard controller, but you can use kinect for head tracking, which actually does add something to the experience. I think we'll see Mass Effect 3 implementing it for the inventory, the dialogue system and maybe even the hacking minigames and so forth. Rather than making actual hardcore games that don't need a controller, I think we'll just see them utilize kinect to enhance the existing games instead.

We certainly won't see a new system from Microsoft and in terms of big surprises, I'm not sure what to expect. They know people were disappointed last year and they know they're going to be getting the least attention because they don't have a new system to show off like Sony and Nintendo do.. So I'm sure they'll have something big to try and grab the spotlight.

Integration of games between PC and Xbox 360 console. Also known as transfarring.

Whatever Microsoft show off at their conference, they'll try to hype it up as something "big" whether it is or isn't. Major Nelson could be plugging a streaming service just so they get more exposure in general. That's probably because people are hoping for big things out of the Nintendo (Cafe) and Sony (NGP/Vita) camps.

That's not to say they won't have something amazing to show, that's just saying that things would be this way regardless of what content they're showing.

And I feel like they won't have diddly squat. Probably more Kinect BS and some Gears 3 and Forza 4. Maybe some exclusive DLC crap as well. 

Keeping a brand new console under wraps is near impossible these days.  Think about it.  We knew about the new Nintendo console, the 3DS, the NGP and even the GO before any of them were officially revealed.  If Microsoft gets on stage and says "we're working on a new console" the obvious response is "well, duh!".  It won't be much like the final unit though because no leaks surround the software kits have gotten out suggesting that no other publisher is working on anything for the imagined system.  At best, I believe Microsoft could come out with a new "slimmer" model or one that has Kinect integrated into the single unit.  The biggest reveal I think they are going to have is something like a price drop and maybe, finally, a browser. 

Hoping for a surprise that doesn't involve Kinect.

@Zabant said:

I bet you a billion brad bucks you're wrong

You're either going to be a very rich man or a very poor man soon.

I think they'll try to appeal to the casual with Kinect and hardcore with some other stuff.

Valve now loves Microsoft more than Sony, and Half Life 2: Episode 3 will be an Xbox 360 exclusive.

GTA V?!

If it's anything like last year's E3, the Microsoft showing will blow.  
Kinect out the ass and nothing but already known game trailers to subside the boredom, which leads to more boredom. 
GOD last year sucked. I hope Microsoft isn't planning that same strategy this year too.

your name is green hence the eager excitement for what will essentially just be a show full of kinect announcements.