If I'm playing in Oct. guess who will
That quote was about streaming the GamesCom event, he stated that the reason they are not streaming it is because the new SDK's took a hit in performance. So MS was probably going to show off some new features from games with the OS and could not because of the SDK performance was not up to par.
CBOAT gave XB1 user some good news possibly getting an exclusive from Platinum and other Japanese Studios, with MS footing the dev cost. That's great news, but you want to over look that interesting nugget.
On Sony SDK are final and games can be mastered well, one of there European Bosses tweeted 1.0 on Aug 12, 2013, now with CBOAT's stating the SDK is final it makes more since, it was kryptic at the time and maybe I'm reaching but it seems like that's the case