That's something different. And I even think it's something you'll get in 7 days. But defining studio acquisitions or AoE IV not as "big" seemed odd to me in the first place.
This is exactly why I was so confused about people crapping on X018 so much. "Nothing worthwile happened" except for, ya know, 2 studio acquisitions?!?!
Say what you will about inXile (I think they're a great pickup, didn't expect them either), but Obsidian is a big enough name for casual gamers to recognize.
Not to mention we got announcements of games like "The Good Life" that were actually originally thought to be skipping the Xbox platform.
Just my two cents though. I'm expecting some awesome games to be shown with hopefully at least one studio acquisition, but we'll see!
Wasteland 3, PoE2, Psychonauts 2, Bleeding Edge, Battletoads, third party partners (Dying Light 2, DBZ: Kakarot, etc.) and Game Pass announcements is already enough for it to be a good show for me. People just need to keep their expectations in check.
The biggest thing I expect? Studio acquisition(s), XCloud, and maybe some Scarlett news. That's it.
Oh, btw, looks like White Owls, Cyber Connect2, and maybe Asobo (that's a big maybe, since MS FS is listed as Microsoft Corporation/XGS) will have games there.