Last night I watched the Xbox One reveal conference. It was late and I was kinda sleepy. Afterwards I spent about an hour on Twitter and Facebook discussing it with people. I’ve now had about 15 hours to think about it all. Well, I did sleep for a while so I had that and my dream about bats outside my sliding door being exterminated with a flamethrower to think about. I have read plenty of articles on many websites and have decided to compile my own thoughts on the hot topics. Let’s take a look:

The Xbox One is Powered by magic. It was mentioned multiple times during the conference. It’s kinda like saying god has blessed you with the gift of music. Well, no, musicians work hard to learn their skill, just like the hardware and software developers did who worked on the new Xbox.

The “extra box” referred to for live TV is just a set top box, cable box etc. Does this mean I can connect my PS3 (hopefully PS4) to the HDMI-in port and use Play TV. Hell, will I be able to play Playstation games through my Xbox One?

My fingers will FINALLY vibrate when I pull the triggers.

Apparently the Xbox One will be practically silent. I guess what this really means is they put a bad cooling system in the machine. I guess this means a repeat of the Red Ring of Death crisis.

The technology in the new Kinect Sensor is leaps and bounds ahead of the original Kinect. With a wide-angle 1080p and full spectrum IR camera… I’m still not gonna play Kinect games.

There is going to be a whole slew of content unavailable in Australia.

EB games will have to do away with their 7-day returns policy on Xbox One games.

You can’t borrow my games without borrowing my profile… Unless you pay full price. And you aren’t having access to my password…

Even though each game needs online verification upon installation, Microsoft said I will be able to trade games in somehow. (Maybe this is where the magic comes in.)

Microsoft Studios has 15 games in the works and over half are new IPs. This means most of the other 7 are probably Dudebro shooters I don’t care for.

Forza 5 is a beautiful visual masterpiece that I will never play.

There is a dog in Call of Duty: Ghosts that is an in-depth character who you will become deeply involved in and will probably love.

I assume the dog is going to die.

The dog still doesn’t look real.

The Xbox One is designed to be an all-in-one box. From what I saw, this means when I say “Xbox On” it will turn on my Xbox, TV and amp, set everything to the correct inputs and launch. My TV is getting pretty old now so I doubt this will be the case.

Being the all in one device that the Xbox One is, I will no longer have a need for my Xbox 360. You know, unless of course I wanna play any of my Xbox 360 games or play any of my Xbox Live Arcade games or indie ga… Oh wait. Never mind. I live in Australia.

The Xbox One is probably going to be in a constant sleep/on mode. Otherwise everything won’t be instant. SCREW YOU CARBON FOOTPRINT!

Being that at least the Kinect is going to be constantly on, I assume Microsoft is constantly watching… I will only be naked when I play games. Who knows, maybe I will play some Kinect games after all.

My useless Gamerscore is going to be more personalised and will constantly evolve and will tell a story about how I earned my achievements. My Gamerscore will still be a useless number.

Xzibit will love Snap mode. “Yo dawg! I heard you like to browse movies while watching movies so I went ahead and let you watch trailers to movies while you browse and watch movies.”

Steven Spielberg is involved in making a Halo TV series for Microsoft. Hey Sony, now’s the time to announce an Uncharted TV show! Ahh, who am I kidding, if the Super Mario Brothers Super Show taught us anything about videogame TV shows…

EA’s new sports engine looks weird to me. At first I thought it might be the uncanny valley, but then I realised that things look too fake and the animation seems cartoonish.

8 core CPU, 8GB system memory, 500GB HDD, Blu-ray drive, 802.11n wireless, HDMI in/out, USB 3.0. The only thing I really care about is too small. If games MUST be installed that 500GB is gonna dry up pretty fast.

Quantum break looks pretty cool. What is it? A TV show? Actually I like the idea of this game. It’s a step forward in what Remedy wanted to do with Alan Wake.

This thing is gonna cost me a shitload…