I can't see it myself, they're going to ride this into the ground, can't jump off the train now.
They did already 180.
My reasoning is this:
First of all we need to see what they tried to do:
- Always online
- Azure cloud
- 3 OSes (main, game, app)
- Surface integration
- All Win 8 apps working on Xbone
- DVR (TV)
- Their UI with Snapping
- Finally Kinect as intergral part of Xbox.
All of that delivered Day 1 on premiere this or next year. Do you know any hardware or even software that could do something like that without major fuckups day 1 ? I don't. Features like those should be integrated gradually to ensure each of them works well.
Skeff do you believe all of those features are easy to implement ? Because i KNOW they aren't and probably anyone who used any kind of PC or console also knows that this is shit ton of features that each of them is complex and it takes looong time to implement.
Long story short they did 180. 180 with all those features that were supposed to deliver and they planned from start to work on them till launch. Now with 180 they need to re-engineer all of those features because every feature is connected and they can't just switch off features at will (beside some minor features).
I can't even think how much devs are currently crunching in MS. Probably heads since they already spent money set deadline for them which is known to us release date but at the same time they probably have plan B if they won't be able to meet deadline without major bugs.
As of what you said Skeff. They did 180. Nothing is impossible and i can't think of any megaton that would hide bish in his bunker.
CBOAT probably didn't yet leak any info because MS internally still didn't decide if they will delay console. Probably people are already talking about this but heads didn't yet made decision hoping that they will meet goal without spending shit ton of money delaying console.
Recent problems with OS are imo biggest truthfact for my theory. If they did 180 because they feared preorder numbers then i bet they fear much more consumer backlash when they will come to home with their new Xbox One and trying to play call of duty with friend and they won't be able to do that because OS will crash, friends invites won't reach people and so on.
Also people who leak stuff KNOW that consoles may have launch problems. They wouldn't leak stuff if it would be something minor. No one would leak that OS have bugs if those bugs wouldn't be serious. They leak this stuff because there are some serious OS bugs and there is veeeery little time to fix it before people will get hands on consoles.
CBOAT already also mentioned that 2014 would be much better time to release console (which pretty much confirmed Xbone was planned for 2014)