Microsoft begins its countdown to E3 2013

<p>Did you know that &lpar;at the time of writing&rpar; it is only 157 days&comma; less than 23 weeks away from E3 2013&excl;&quest; Nope&comma; neither did we but Major Nelson has decided that we should be more than aware of the days by posting a countdown clock on his blog&&num;8230&semi; already&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is widely expected that E3 2013 will be the time and place when Microsoft &lpar;and arguably Sony&rpar; show off their next-generation consoles for the first time&semi; after all&comma; it has been more than seven years since the Xbox 360 originally launched so a new console would be nice to end 2013 with&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For comparison&comma; the PlayStation 3 launched a year later in 2006&comma; meaning that console has been on the market for more than six years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With games retailers blaming the long console-generation for troubled cash-flows&comma; everyone should be happy come the end of the year as long as the predictions of two new consoles becomes a reality&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Do you think we will see new consoles from Microsoft and Sony at E3 2013&quest; Are you counting down the days to E3 2013&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;majornelson&period;com&sol;2013&sol;01&sol;02&sol;countdown-to-e3-2013&sol;">Major Nelson<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;oxm&period;co&period;uk&sol;48856&sol;and-its-on-microsoft-starts-countdown-to-e3-2013&sol;">Official Xbox Magazine UK<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" alt&equals;"" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;3fb2adb8-037e-4ecf-9276-cca0f971521a" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;