Honestly, I think they actually are hitting their demographic pretty well. If you read around the web, a lot of writers are not on the same page as their readers with the backlash. These guys have full-time jobs and do a lot of their gaming on their phone/tablet on the way to or during work, and when they come home to their significant other and/or kids, their Xbox is used for the various ways in which it can play media. To that end, it's not hard to find people who actually did find the Xbox One event fairly compelling.

Personally, I was actually intruiged by some of the gaming features they did announce. Especially with the way Achievements evolve along with the user's playstyle. As a big multiplayer addict, I was pretty inspired by them teasing that their server architecture would allow devs to expand what multiplayer can be into a much more ambitious undertaking. And as I said in the Sony thread, turning my gamer profile into its own content hub is one of my favorite things about Steam. I like what Sony is doing with sharing, but it sounded like Microsoft is going even further. I'd like to see this stuff in action, and I assume we will while watching someone play Fallout 4 and the Respawn game onstage at E3.

I was surprised that their big innovation is tied to live TV, though. Not just because of the Exodus away from live tv over the last few years, but more so because Microsoft was kind of its Moses .

Welp, Valve is up next and it should be interesting to see how they round out, and possibly subvert, the next-generation of consoles.