Reasonable said:
MS
First 360 console - terrible for me. Too hot, too loud, too unreliable, no WiFi, terrible disk tray. The largest power brick I briefly considered having in my house before thinking better of it. Good controller and at least they packed in a headset. 4/10
360 Slim - great console. Nice design, good USB placement, quiet, better disk tray, good wifi, smaller power brick (still too big IMHO but at least they tried) and seems very reliable. 9/10
Software - exclusives decent but not enough for me. I know MS pushes safe bet big titles over variety for the most part but I like to risk trying new stuff vs sticking to a few titles. 7/10 (9/10 if you bring in third party efforts).
Controllers - 8.5/10 for their gamepad. Nice to use but drops a point and a half for the D-Pad and the use of batteries with a horribly big and badly positioned (at least for my fingers) battery case. Kinect 7/10. Great device, but for me too limiting for games. Great for voice commands and menu use though. Needs a Wand IMHO to really be useful.
Online - 9.5/10. The gold standard really. Lots of features and a very good service. Stuff like Facebook should be available to Silver though (I say this as a Gold user but I think Silver get's shafted a bit).
Summary - a good gen overall for MS, particularly for me once they got past RROD and the original 360 design.
Sony
Fat PS3 - great console. Nice design, great feature set (I'm basing this on the PS2 compatible versions) and broad support for digital and physical media thanks to the card reader and Blu-Ray. Ran quiet and didn't get too hot. No power brick (trumped even the Wii in that regard). Only negative was it should have had 2 USB at front and 2 at back instead of all 4 to the front. 9.5/10 (I loved my fat PS3 - it was a pity I killed it myself)
Slim PS3 - very good console but oddly I'd argue a step back. Probably saved Sony's bacon but the feature set was cut back and 2 USB is a bit tight really given the amount of other stuff Sony in theory wanted you to hook up to it. Still at least it's quiet and reliable. 8.5/10.
Software - lots of exclusives, some great and some crap but lots of variety. 8.5/10 (9.5/10 if you bring in third party)
Controllers - Sixaxxis was too light and lacked rumble. 8/10. Dualshock 3 corrected all that and remains a better fit for my hand. 9.5/10. Move - works great and seems able to support a variety of gameplay types. 9/10
Online - very good now but not quite matching Live. 8.5/10 (9/10 in if you Plus and use the discounts)
Summary - doing okay now but boy did they start the gen in a terrible way. Pity the fat PS3 with full PS2 support was too costly to make and thereby too costly to afford - because purely as an electronics device it was definitely the best console this gen IMHO (I mean on its own just to be double clear - i.e. purely for what it contained separate from games)
Nintendo (going to make this one shorter)
Wii is a great little console that launched with the best integrated motion control package. Works great and is easy to use. But the online was horribly weak and personally I felt it should have played DVDs. As HD TVs became the norm I also felt it was underpowered vs the resolution of my TV. 8.5/10
Summary - the little console that went big but ran out of steam first.
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You also forgot to include that Xbox controllers have built in mic jacks. Resulting n cheap FIRST PARTY mics.
