Uh, the consumer didn't win... just a bunch of noisy adolescents that follow the crowd. The consumer would have won if he had a choice. Now the consumer basically has two identical systems (though serious gamers will likely still go with the X1 due to it having more than double the exclusive titles).

Sony has 7 exclusive games. The Xbox One has 15 exclusive games, and now no DRM to complain about (not to mention standard Kinect, Smartglass, etc.).

What are you, twelve? Look at iTunes... that's all DRM, and it works great and things are cheap. All we've got thanks to naval-gazers like you is another decade of disc-based media that'll become unreadable in 15 years, and far less convenience right now. Congrats on setting is back another 6-8 years.

No, "good guys" did not win. Populism and a megaphone won. Innovation and the future just got set back another 6-8 years. And I lay blame squarely at the overtly-biased feet of Kotaku editors like Luke and Kirk and their incessant fanning of the flames.

Sorry, Reggie. I just traded in my Wii U this week... I only played it three times. The rest of the time was spent on updates and waiting for system menus.

GEEZ Kotaku... even when you run a semi-favorable XBox story, you STILL have to find a way to denigrate it first. Can we get beyond this already and just talk about the XBox's 15 exclusive titles vs. the PS4's half-as-deep 7 exclusive titles? That's just as big of a story for those of us that care about the games.

So, Sony hypes digital game downloads but refuses to give specifics about DRM and you just let that go? It could easily be the same or worse than Microsoft or STEAM. How is this not the main story? Why are we letting Sony "win" this next-gen topic by simply not answering the question?

This is SUCH a non-issue, really. I don't play games from 10 years ago, because most them are crap compared to what's out now (anyone pining for "Road Blasters" or even "Mortal Kombat 4?" ... Anyone?). There will be a next system, and probably one after that, and the few great titles from this generation will survive…

Trying a little too hard to make a headline now, aren't we?

I bought a launch-day Wii U deluxe set. I have played it less time than I have spent updating it. That is all Nintendo should need to know about how well this cycle is going to go for them.

I have to say, this miserable waste of 2 hours of my life gave me more reason than anything I can think of to pay attention to what Microsoft has in store for us. Surely it will be more innovative, at least as graphically impressive, and hopefully they'll be smart enough to actually show us hardware. Dumb, dumb move,…

The hilarious thing is, this parody video is actually spot-on... if you wasted 2 hours of your life (through choppy video, I might add), you mostly got stuff you've seen or knew about before, no true innovation, and nothing to even think about as it relates to the physical unit. This really might be one of the worst…

This is terrible, irresponsible reporting, and you should be ashamed of yourself, Esther (just like Annalee should for posting the original story). You do realize we have enough problems with animal abuse as it is not to be encourage people to have fear or animosity toward domestic animals, don't you?

Dumb question. Until we see it and it has a price and a date, it basically doesn't exist.

Ok, I can appreciate nice graphics as much as anyone, but I'm more interested in doing something different... give me a different control interface, or a different way of displaying the image (whole room projector or Oculus Rift), or even different media/entertainment uses.

These specs really aren't that impressive. And the fact that it's x86 simply means it'll be easier for developers to make the same games for PCs... which will be capable of looking significantly better.

This was a huge fail... there are plenty of things to save for later (exclusives, certain aspects of functionality, price, specific release date, etc.). But to announce a console and not show it?! Bizarre, and frustrating.

I've actually owned no less than 3 Subaru XTs (one a turbo, two of the 6 cylinder variety), and I have to say, those dashboards were awesome, and actually pretty well though-out. The only caveat is that sometimes buttons would stick (the headlight button had a double-click function). But it looked cool, and made you…

Looks good, actually... and with a TDI? I'd totally buy it. Big and brash, indeed.

Holy CRAP that is ugly!