The organizers of the Tokyo Game Show today announced the online edition calendar that will replace the usual fair, and surprisingly we discover that Microsoft will open the event with a live title " Xbox Tokyo Game ShowShowcase 2020"; The showcase will take place on September 24 at 14:00 (Italian time), will last 50 minutes and will be broadcast on this live YouTube.

The news comes as a surprise because microsoft has been attending a conference at the Japanese fair for several years now, and the fact that this time it has a 50-minute event suggests that it has something to show, probably in relation to Japanese productions. It is likely that part of the showcase will be used to promote Xbox Series X/S and xCloud, but it is also possible that new Japanese productions in the works for Xbox will be revealed.

We don't expect Microsoft to wait until this event to reveal Xbox Series S, announce the price of the two new consoles and open pre-orders: this will most likely happen sooner, between this and next week.

Given the term "Showcase" used in the event title, however, we do not expect a real conference but more a roundup of movies with a few short comments as seen in theXbox Games Showcase in July.