Gaming is not about hardware.  Gaming is about games.  "Hands on" the hardware is pointless unless they are actually showing people playing games.  Even for a console specs reveal they should be showing off gameplay.  Otherwise it is not really "hands on".  

This is just two guys talking.  Lame.  

Seriously...is this a joke? You know MS doing a digital games event in place of E3 right? They showed gameplay of State of Decay 2 loading comparisons between Series X and Xbox One X. Also they showed suspended games resume for 5 different games. The gameplay is shown and it’s impressive. 

If them misusing the words “hands on” is the best negative thing you can say about this reveal, that that means this is a complete success by all practical accounts. 

Pictures of the controller:

What a difference a generation makes. They broke down all these features and elements of the hardware and virtually all of it is worded and catering to hardcore gamers, things that will actually impact gaming on the console. Such a stark contrast to the Xbone marketing and reveal.

And so much of these features for Xbone are internally developed by MS. Wonder what difference this will give it from PS5.

All Xbone games get HDR. If that works out, that’s fucking amazing. And talking about how some guy unplugged his console for a week, plugged it back in and updated, and was able to resume his game state with no loading. Wow.

Everything sounds powerful and neat. Now we can move towards new games.

Looks like a very well thought design, but the memory split is strange. I hope it won't become a problem later.

Or, there simply isn't that much impressive game play to show to get people excited. For many reasons, games aren't ready yet, diminishing returns, you tube is really crap at showing off modern game play, screenshots don't do HDR justice, etc.

Also the earlier you throw around the specs the more impressive they look. In half a year GPUs have all been updated again and PCs are a step further along. The message will change when we get closer to release. Specs for the hardcore first, bull shots later.

The memory situation is a bit concerning tbh. 8 GB was a struggle a few months after release already (although the OS kept 3GB at first). 16 GB total seems very small to me. I had hoped for 24 GB at least. My modest 1080p gaming laptop has 16GB system ram plus 6 GB dedicated video ram (can use 14 GB for GPU) and it's very memory constrained in modern games.

Well 10GB is of the fastest available, so I don't think it will be much problem.

It's fast, there's no doubt of that, but sometimes quantity also matter.

They showed jumping between games in seconds and continuing their progress as if they continue from a quick save. That's a huge feature that makes playing multiple less of a burden.

State of Decay 2 loaded in seconds even with no patches. This would suggest all content could load faster. I would credit the storage and CPU for that.

We saw Gears Ultimate went from 1080p to 4K. Which could suggest X1 content is going to get a 4x pixel count boost. This means 720p content becomes 1440p, 900p become 1800p and 1080p content becomes 4K. This is big news for people who people who care about BC content, which is many.

They showed some tech videos of Gears 5 running 4K and ultra settings, a massive boost over last gen consoles. We saw Minecraft using ray tracing on Series X, which is the first we've actually seen ray tracing on a console.

9th gen content isn't really being shown yet, but there was still a lot to glean from these two videos simply showing how it can improve old content. Also, spoiler alert. For the next couple years most content is going to be cross gen. So at the very least we see how Series X content is gonna be a massive improvement in visual fidelity, ray tracing can be enabled, performance is going to be much better, load times will be significantly faster, etc.

We essentially saw much of what we hoped being demonstrated.