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Microsoft has discussed its plans for next Tuesday’s Xbox Reveal event, confirming that next week’s announcement will be about “laying the foundation” and taking an “inside look at the making of the new [Xbox] platform and the team that’s brought it to life,” before revealing “tonnes of exclusives” at next month’s E3.
“We’re really going to tell one story across two events,” explained Microsoft’s IEB chief of staff Aaron Greenberg on the latest episode of Major Nelson’s podcast. “So we’re going to start on the 21st, and really that’s about revealing the next Xbox platform; our vision for the future of games, the future of entertainment.
“We definitely have a lot of surprises planned,” Greenberg continued. “I know everyone knows the Infinity Ward team is hard at work on world premiering Call of Duty: Ghosts, so we’re going to see what that looks like for the first time.
“People are going to get a great inside look at the making of the new platform and the team that’s brought it to life. To be honest, it’s really about the team, the people here. That’s why we’re inviting people to campus; we’re going to bring them behind the scenes a little bit. We’ve never done this before and so it’s really exciting to be able to do that. It’s a lot of laying the foundation, probably the best way to describe it. And then just a couple of weeks later we go to E3.”
Microsoft will use E3 to reveal more about the titles headed to the next Xbox, Greenberg says.
“E3 is all about the games,” he continues. “At E3, I mean, if you’re a gamer, it’s going to be tonnes of exclusives, world premieres, and obviously even beyond that we have a lot to share between then and this holiday.”
Microsoft will reveal its next-gen Xbox next Tuesday, May 21 at 6pm UK.
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