Companies follow through with all plans they publicly announce. Especially at E3. This is fact and nothing will change in the months leading up to the X-Box One's release in spite of the terrible press -- rather, Microsoft can't do anything to forestall their console's impending demise because the majority of complaints are software-related, and as we all know, unlike issues with hardware, issues with software cannot be fixed easily.

Sony was in a similar position last gen, but because they locked themselves into a business plan built on unbreakable promises made at E3, the PS3 was a bust from the start and met with no success throughout its lifetime.

R.I.P. Sony & Microsoft, victims of wretched fate