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E3 2017: Xbox Press Conference Runtime Revealed, Apparently

97 minutes long.

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After confirming that this year's Xbox E3 2017 briefing will be longer than 90 minutes, Microsoft has now confirmed what appears to be the specific runtime for the show.

Writing on Twitter, Microsoft Studios GM Shannon Loftis suggested that the show will be 97 minutes long. She mentioned the figure in a tweet regarding how the briefing will be broadcast in 4K through Microsoft's Mixer service. Microsoft's E3 briefings usually run for 90 minutes, but this year's is longer because Microsoft wants to show more games.

Also new for Microsoft this year at E3 is the date and time of the Xbox briefing, as the show is now taking place on the Sunday before E3 week instead of Monday. The event kicks off at 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET.

Microsoft is expected to announce the name, price, and release date for Project Scorpio during its briefing, while there will be a "little something" for Halo--but not Halo 6--at the event. As always, there should be surprises and other reveals, too.

For more on the event, check out GameSpot's breakdown of everything you need to know. You can also read our thoughts on how Microsoft can win E3 or see them in video form.

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It be nice to see them push more games with that extra time, running on scorpio not a pc in the back.

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Give me Scorpio and games!

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Aaron Greenberg of Xbox Marketing replied to that tweet saying the Xbox Conference is going to be longer than 97 minutes

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Are these 97 minutes Native, True minutes? Apparently they are Fat... Glad to know that because I hate Skinny minutes.

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After the whole to do about needing more time for games and they only needed 7 minutes. Honestly they could have cut 7 minutes of the BS talking and just give gamers what they want. Games.

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97 minutes? Why not just say an hour and a half or whatever... It's not like these shows ever end on time.

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Looking forward to the Deadly Premonition 2 trailer!!!

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Ah well 7 minutes is still plenty of time to show off a few trailers. More realistically they probably didn't want to have to cut anybody on account of showing off more than just a trailer for a couple of their titles. Either way I'll be happy to see what's up in every's camp since it's felt a bit quiet this year.

I'm not sure if Sony's quiet because they're worried they're not going to be able to follow up last years hype, or if they're trying to beef up before the show. Microsoft is probably quiet because they know they need to hit it out of the park this year and there's no excuse for not making that happen. Nintendo has it pretty easy, they just need to throw down some good classic IP's to keep everyone satisfied and if they can throw in a couple big name 3rd party titles people will freak out.

What ever happens at E3 I can't wait to finally see what's up with the next year in gaming.

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@preacher001: "quiet"... Sorry after 3 tries my OCD went off ;)

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@joshrmeyer: When you feel something's wrong but the spellcheck doesn't flag it. :/

Corrected for your sanity.

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This is a news story. Eddie Makuch thought this was news.

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@Thanatos2k: I'll take any news today... Getting pumped for E3.

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That's a very long Gears 5 trailer. HEYOOOOOOOOOOOOO

But seriously, it will be interesting to see what they have in their hat

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