Xbox One

Microsoft finally put a name and face to their once mysterious console when they introduced the Xbox One. With 15 new titles and 300,000 new Xbox Live servers promised, I'm already gathering what little money I have.

We are faced with a sleek rectangular console, void of any awkward curves like we've seen previously. They confirmed Blu-ray support in the slot-loading drive, good news for larger games as we'll no longer be faced with the dreaded "Insert Disk 2". We've lost our front USB ports, but they've likely added just as many on the back for multimedia devices and this time they've gone 3.0.

It doesn't stop at its good looks though, we now have a massive 8 cores to play with. The 8GBs of system memory will allow for their '3 Operating Systems' to run, this makes switching between movies and games almost seamless. We have a HDMI In/Out as expected and a 500GB Hard Drive to store downloadable content and gameplay videos after editing them naively right on your console.

Xbox One's controllers bare a similar resemblance to the 360's but this time packing updated ergonomics, a taller base and thinner holds. The Xbox Guide button is wider than before and is positioned next to the bumpers. They've changed the D-Pad design to something more accurate and thanks to the internal battery you'll no longer have to hide your AA batteries. And for the first time ever we'll have feedback resistance for our fingers, something I've wanted for a long time.

The new Kinect looks more visually pleasing than the previous model being shorter and more square. It is more accurate at tracking motion than before as displayed at the reveal event and will interact with the '3 operating systems' allowing you to use voice commands to switch between apps.

All of these amazing features combined with the 15 release titles I'm sure we're in for a great December. Next stop: E3 where we'll get a chance to see some more of the Xbox One in action.