Microsoft Scraps European Xbox Show July 20, 2007

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There are changes afoot in the Xbox camp. A few days after Peter Moore – Xbox 360 boss – decides to leave Microsoft suddenly, the company has announced that it is cancelling its European console event, X07.

The X0 shows have been the big platform for Xbox/Xbox 360 announcements but the company has pulled plug, without saying why. I sniff serious belt-tightening and re-trenching here. Aaron Greenberg, group product manager for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, said in a blog:

“There is not a real X07 this year but I think that we will figure out some way to talk about 2008 some time at a different event or a different type of programme.”

The X0 events have been running since 2001. The company may offer a smaller UK-focused event in its place but so far there are no details.

Could Moore’s departure and the cancellation of the show be related to the $1.5bn Microsoft may have to shell out to replace dodgy Xbox 360s with the Flashing Red Ring Of Death?-Martin Lynch

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