Not sure how I feel. The box looks pretty nice, but it's surprisingly big, for some reason. Kinect looks pretty big too. Controller just seemed like a nice refinement of what we have, which is ok. I like the way the UI worked. It seems very smooth and well implemented. The thing is, I don't have cable or tv, and don't plan on getting it. I was hoping for more talk of their own tv service. They did announce their Halo tv show, but I don't know if that's what convinces me to buy a console. More announcements for something like a "Netflix Originals" series would be good. To be honest, I would have liked to have seen more of Kinect as well. It's Time Of Flight now, and it would have been good to see some real demos of how well it works in a game. They didn't talk specs as I expected. The lack of game demos is ok with me. Those will come at E3. I wanted to see what this box was all about, but they left too many holes. What exactly makes Xbox Live better this time around? Was really hoping to see an "app store" for indie development. Nothing on that front. There was an "apps" view on the main UI screen, but they never even glossed over it.
In many (if not all) ways I thought this was a better reveal than Sony did for PS4, but that isn't saying much. The Sony conference basically said, "We will have games." No shit. Microsoft showed their console, and a little more of how it worked and some of the features, but they left too many questions. So far, both MS and Sony have left me pretty unimpressed. Maybe I'll skip a gen, or what for a Valve console. I don't know. I'll have to see what E3 reveals.
In many (if not all) ways I thought this was a better reveal than Sony did for PS4, but that isn't saying much. The Sony conference basically said, "We will have games." No shit. Microsoft showed their console, and a little more of how it worked and some of the features, but they left too many questions. So far, both MS and Sony have left me pretty unimpressed. Maybe I'll skip a gen, or what for a Valve console. I don't know. I'll have to see what E3 reveals.
