E3 2009: Microsoft Wants to “Break the Bank,” Look Further Into the Future

E3 this year is going to be something different.

One reason it will be different is because it will be the same; that is, they’re looking to make this year’s E3 more like the E3s of the past, the memorable ones, rather than the near-total trainwreck “business summit” which we’ve been exposed to for the past couple of years.

But it’s going to be different for another reason as well, at least in Microsoft’s camp.

“The last two E3s at least, if I use that a proxy for what’s coming, we’ve talked a lot about what its coming in the next five to six months after E3, and we’ve had some pressure that maybe we want to think a little broader about what we want to say at E3, a little further out in the future.

I came out of an E3 planning meeting just about an hour ago, and we were looking at some of the plans for the future and things that we might want to tease, and it’s very exciting.

There’s a lot of stuff on the docket, and maybe we’ll break the bank a little bit and talk about things that are further out, which will hopefully get the community excited.” — Phil Spencer, Microsoft Game Studios boss, to Major Nelson via videogaming247

What do you think he could mean? A new Xbox controller you can waggle? A new Xbox?

…both?

It’s intriguing that they are planning their E3 so far in advance. I wonder how many other companies are doing the same thing.