You should go back and watch the whole thing as you saw some of the worst. Most of what they showed, in my perspective was bringing Xbox Live features (friends, Facebook, chatting, ect.), some potential Kinect/Wii with the tracking of the movement of the controller with its LED triangle, and moving from phone to tablet (Vita) like Smart Glass.

I've had a problem with lagging so I can't really tell you about the FPS demo. I want to find it on another site. But it looked much like better graphic Halo Reach New Alexandria episode to me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw0A_3JjS4c

The two big clunkers were, and you saw one:

The Puppet thing with the Move - it looked to me like Wii Music all over again. Yes, I said it, Wii Music.

The 3D builder thing - yea it's cool, but something you play once. It's really hard, and reminded me of some of the multi picture stuff in Kinect Party/ Happy Action Theatre. Where you have a 3D capture, and you can add on to it.

I thought Sony did a decent job of taking some of the best features from Xbox Live and the WiiU and integrating them into their system. Now, wither they can actually pull off "the fasted gaming network," integration with phones, etc. remains to be seen.
They didn’t show anyone using the new touch pad, and it seems awkwardly placed – so I didn’t see why they put it there yet. Perhaps they will show how it is useful at E3. I do think the ‘share’ button is a nice thing.

I thought they did a good job, but did I see anything that made me go, "I HAVE to get that system?" my answer would be not really. I'll be looking forward to what Microsoft has to offer, and I have a feeling they will be not only integrative, but also innovative with Kinect 2.0, that room projection thingy, maybe those VR goggles, and stuff we haven't thought of yet.

First of all, thanks for the clearly written post, and honest opinions, this is how it's done, great read.

Now for mine:

THE HARDWARE:

Although not terribly suprised by all the recent leaks and spec discussions, I was pleased with the HW specs Sony put out, it seems like a VERY capable closed-box system, while being very developer friendly.

The 8GB RAM was a small suprise, and a very wise choice, we've just had a full 7 years with RAM bottlenecking games, and the ATI/AMD APU seems capable in it's own right and a wise choice, although the potential lack/lack of HW BC is a little dissapointing to me personally, although I can understand why from a engineering perspective.

Standard HDD and disc drive are always a plus, so good job.

Controller wise it seems like an improvement, I haven't held it yet obviously, but it seems more natural fitting than the DS3.

GAMES AND PRESENTATION:

Let's start of with the actual meeting: OKAY, WE GET IT! You finally listened to developers and created a good development enviroment instead of the matrix, saying this is good, saying it twice,  okay, it got rather obnoxious after the 3rd time though.

There was also a rather (For me personally) dissapointing lack of games, I really liked the KZ4 demo and the Watch Dogs demo, but what about the rest? Driveclub was a few minutes of talking and 10 seconds of "gameplay", Infamous was pretty much a trailer, and for the rest it was pretty much a tech demo, which is fine... aslong as you have a significant amount of games being shown.

Most of all, Sony got someone on stage for 10 seconds to say we'll hear more about a new FF... at another conference?! That was just... lolwtf?!?

Advertising wise, big mistake, start of with a "Yoga isn't gaming" advertisement, and then show a muppet show... What were they thinking?

Fortunately, KZ4 and Watch Dogs looked amazing though, so that makes up for lost ground.

Rating:

• Hardware: 9/10
• Presentation: 6/10
• Games: 7/10

Room for improvement, but not bad. :)

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As this thread got oddly locked, i'd like to finish by saying, grow up people and learn to participate in friendly discussion instead of being trolls.

I didn't watch it but I followed the thread here just to get the jist of what was going on. The Killzone video is fucking insane to me, but I like shooters and I'm easy to please. I could see someone saying that it's boring or doesn't show anything "revolutionary" but you could say that about most FPS games. The sheer beauty of the game is what's impressive to me. I know it's next gen and I know PC gamers have been seeing these cool graffix since forever but still, it made me say wow and it made me want to play it. It also makes me hope that 720 games are going to look that good.

The game capture thing seems cool to me, if I understand it right and it's something I would use. Most of the other social stuff, I don't care about and I doubt I'll care about what MS has to offer in that regard.

I'm not ready to jump ship or anything as I'm optimistic that MS will be able to satisfy me but I'm not gonna sit here and pick apart every little thing that Sony showed and play it off like it all sucks because it doesn't.