This is going to be a short blog. After watching about 30 minutes of the press conference I turned it off and went back to doing something useful with my life. Kinect control of TV, Movies, FPS, 'gun customization', and more I realized it all demos really well, but it would do the following to me mentally: 1. Annoy me: "Xbox, Home" - "Xbox, Movies", yeah this is great and all, but once you are in there then what? "Xbox, play Castle", no I don't think so it would then probably force me to do the hover junk with it. Yuck, I hate Kinect. 2. Just watching they guy hunched over in the FPS reloading with massive arm swipes and attempting to aim... it just looked uncomfortable and lame. He did the expand and changing of gun parts and it just looked flashy but I couldn't fathom this being any more fun than doing it with a controller. "Customize - Close range"... how about "Xbox - get lost". And then there is Mass Effect 3. I can now 'Say' the dialog wheel... WOW... or I can tell my teammates to move up and fall back... but see the problem is they then do what they think I meant. With a controller I point to the spot and tell them - Go right there. Much less chance the moronic AI would get that wrong. I don't know the Kinect inclusion just looked horrible, and unfortunately it drags down with it my enthusiasm for playing it. This just isn't cutting it. I'll already admit, other than playing RB3 my Xbox gets hardly any use at my home. Unfortunately they have moved past what I want a game console to do. I doubt they will ever turn back so I don't think I'm going to worry about the Microsoft stuff moving forward.