Actually, I was thinking it looked more like some new DVD player from Panasonic.

I realy truly honestly wish and hope this Xbox One will fail, even worse than WiiU.

Doubt it with all that camara and movements of the warrior character and the "HUD" is clearly tacked-on.

But lets just hope it does not end up like that flying a dragon launch game on the PS3 whatever its name was.

Lair.

I have it myself, it's not as horrible as people claim it to be. It got panned by critics because of the six-axis controls that didn't work, but a patch was released and you can control the dragon just with the analog sticks. After the patch it's a pretty decent game.

And the reverse happened with the Xbox 1 (I guess thats what to still call it) to the 360 and they got some of the games working. Sony also has a near 100% software based PS2 emulator for the PS3 that was discovered locked away recently by hackers.

Even full software emulation of Power PC is possible on x86 from programs like Dolphin for the Gamecube and Wii.

It might not have been perfect, but it would have been something. As is people with big download collections on the 360 have even less incentive to get an Xbox One.

Holy dickmuffins that box is ugly. Looks like two old external 5.25" diskette drives that have been unceremonously taped together.

Did anybody watch the whole part where they talked about "transistors in the cloud"? Did you catch what the purpose of this was, to outsource in-game calculations to a server if connected? Does that mean that gameplay performance might scale to whether you are connected and how good your connection is? Because that sounds a like a much more horrible idea than effectively banning used games.

At any rate, I wasn't going to get an Xbox anyway due to my rabid PS fanboierism, and MS have certainly done nothing to win me over here.

Well, I have a personal thing about Microsoft so I don't care about the Xbox myself. The PS4 on the other hand I think is going to be sweet.

Indeed. MH3U is seeing the most playtime from me at the moment on any platform. Awesome game.

Also just discovered The Conduit, a (Wii, not Wii U) game that has managed to prove me wrong about first-person shooters and the WiiMote - the WiiMote is superior to joypads for FPS.

Things I'm worried about:

- This possible requirement to register and install games. I can see a lot of places going out of business over the loss of the used game market and I just don't want to be forced to register my games online. It's a physical disc. If you want to force me to register my game, just make me buy it from the marketplace or something.

- Forced Azure access to run games in a playable manner.

- The ugly design of the new Xbox controller.

so did they mention the specs? anyone summarise the announcement?

What's wrong with Azure?
Blu-ray (surprise to me), 8GB RAM (no idea which kind), x86-64 architecture... my guess is that we'll get more info during the Build conference (since that one is about developers).

Forgot about voice navigation, Kinect capable of 1080p video with 2Gbits data rate.

Using it forces you to be online, even in single-player games.

First time hearing Azure forcing you to do anything... We're talking about the same thing, right? http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/

I'd consider buying it (since I do have a 3DS)...but I've never played Monster Hunter and couldn't get into it when playing the demo of MHFU and MH3U (and don't have a second circle pad attachment).

But that tech demo "Deep Down" looked interesting.