 Supposedly caught flat-footed by Sony's PlayStation 4 curtain-raiser earlier this week, Microsoft is now rumored to be planned to unveil its own next-generation Xbox as early as April. Microsoft has been teasing a big product reveal at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in June. Most industry watchers have assumed the software giant with introduce the successor to the Xbox 360 at the big Los Angeles gaming show, though Microsoft has been diligently tight-lipped about anything to do with its next-gen console as it tries to squeeze out more sales of its current one. But on Friday, CVG UK reported that "a growing number of developers and other industry professionals" are saying Microsoft has moved up its debut party for the next Xbox to the start of the second quarter. The software giant is also expected to broach the topic of its next-gen console, internally code named Durango, at next month's Game Developer Conference, according to the gaming site . "It is said that Microsoft will now showcase its console at a one-off media event in early April," CVG UK said, adding that its sources included some Sony employees. One unnamed "senior Sony official" told the site that Microsoft was "caught ... off-guard" by Sony's New York PlayStation 4 event. "We definitely ruffled some feathers," CVG UK quoted the source as saying. Of course, Sony wound up showing the world everything but the actual future-generation PlayStation itself at its event. Perhaps Microsoft plans to one-up its console-making rival by serving up an actual Durango-class Xbox for the crowd at its rumored April event. Naturally, all of this is speculation. Microsoft refused to comment on any next-gen Xbox rumors this week—even withholding comment on the police raid of the home of an Australian man suspected of leaking Durango details this month and selling a next-generation Xbox developer kit on eBay last August. Still, Dvice.com on Friday passed along a clue from a NeoGAF.com forum user which points to something brewing from Microsoft vis-à-vis the unveiling of its new console. It turns out that the event planning company which staged Microsoft's E3 2012 appearance on Thursday registered the Web domain "XboxEvent.com," according to NeoGAF.com user "ekim." On the other hand, all of this talk reminded Brier Dudley of The Seattle Times that "early April" is a notoriously unreliable time of the year, so perhaps we shouldn't get our hopes up after all.  via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFzRGoQLYwVWYWnTZ1c7i2BkESRSA&url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2415785,00.asp | |||
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