I wanted to make a thread...I was just too lazy to find all the material to post. I knew someone else would do it eventually.
I like everything that was shown. I think the controller looks really nice, but I'm kind of confused on how practical that touch pad is going to be. What do you actually use it for? Only thing I can think of is swiping through menus, but maybe they'll come up with something impressive.
The dominate thought going through my head during most of the show was, "That sounds awesome...if it works right." I can see the streaming thing being really impractical for a lot of people with less than awesome connections.
Watch Dogs looks awesome, mostly because it's a current gen game. I feel like launch titles are usually not amazing, because these days they are almost always just tech demos for what the hardware can do. Knack for example looks really neat, but I feel like it's mostly an excuse to get a lot of particles on the screen.
Graphics are not the reason I'm going to purchase a new console. My PC will always have the console beat in terms of visuals, so it really comes down to exclusives and what neat features they can tack on.
I'm actually really excited for the Share button. It has happened so many times that I'll be playing a game, and do something incredible, and really wish I had a video of it. With the system always recording, I can find it and share it.
I also like how you can put the system to sleep and immediately resume. One of my biggest beefs with Xbox is how much of a pain it actually makes playing a game. Gotta sign in, gotta see a dashboard full of ads, launch game, oh game needs an update because the system only caches the last 5 you played, gotta pick a storage device for your save files, oh we changed some security setting, you need to verify this code. I just want to put a game in and play, please.
The upgrade to 8 gigs of RAM is crazy. Just for comparison, the PS3 has 512 MB, and it's split between the CPU and the GPU. 256 can ONLY be addressed from the CPU, 256 can ONLY be addressed from the GPU. This is 8 gigs of unified RAM. Any bit of it can be accessed from anywhere else.
In addition to better and faster textures, you can expect better and less compressed audio.
Unless microsoft announces something crazy or a big change to Live, I'm definitely leaning more towards a PS4 at this point.