It’s not about hardware, but about games! At least this is the first prediction about this year’s E3 Media & Business Summit. In 2007 the games software will be in the spotlight comparing to last year’s expo, when one focused mainly on hardware.

It seems that the already famous battle between Nintendo’s Wii, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3 will continue, but on a new territory; that is the companies’ inventory of games to choose from for their video game consoles. While Wii has already become the leader in sales, Microsoft will however be ahead of its two old rivals when talking about games. Being released a year ahead of Wii and PlayStation 3, Microsoft’s Xbox unfortunately lost the start for becoming a sales-leader on the market, due to quality problems.

But Microsoft has tried to do its best in mending the console’s problems, and, on the other hand, in releasing a wide inventory of video games. That is why, predictions say that this year’s E3 will be in fact Microsoft’s promoting agency.

The E3 Media & Business Summit will kick of on Wednesday and it will run for three days; although the summit shrank in size and become invite-only, everyone is impatiently looking forward to finding out what the companies are having in mind for the year to come.

Nintendo, for example, is expected to release in the next two months to come several games such as Battalion Wand Brothers in Arms: Double Time, Alien Syndrome and also the online Mario Strikers Charged. Sony is also expected to announce the release dates for exclusive PlayStation 3 titles like Grand Turismo 5 and Gods of War III and others. Sony has announce the release dates for few game titles like Warhawk, The Gateway 3, Heavenly Sword and Killzone 2, although some of the dates could easily be changed.

The E3 Media & Business Summit has been speculated that would be used especially by Sony for announcing price drops for PlayStation 3. But the company has recently denied the rumor.