I thought it went without saying we were talking about the rumour, I hardly claim that Microsoft actually unveiled anything yet.

So no tablet controller

Of course it would be close.. they share the same crowd and will get mostly the same games.. the one with the better gimmick and cheaper price will take the crown..

Your decision until we know actual specs. Either 50% less is wrong or being aligned is wrong.

 They already have Smartglass for that... In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they took it one step further and showed off a Microsoft manufactured Windows 8 tablet with physical controls to fully take advantage of it on par with the Vita and Wii U controller as well.

... Now I've got myself excited over all kinds of possibilities that would imply...

I can think of "remote play" on any device with support for smartglass. This would really be awesome.

Like the original Xbox being 2x times more powerul than PS2? Raw numbers are raw.

The original Xbox was whole lot more than just 2 times as good looking, though that was more do to effective VRAM (since the Xbox was all unified after all) and the incredible texturing difference plus usually twice the resolution w/ most PS2 games running 480i and than anything to do with flops. Roughly 1.2gb of texture data on screen per second on the PS2 vs about 34gb of texture data on screen per second on the Xbox peak.

Good, I like that.

as expected