I tuned in to see the box and the OS/featureset. I understand they want to make the focus on games at E3. But I really like what I saw as far as the hardware, OS, and featureset goes. Don't give a shit about sports, Forza, CoD, or TV, but the deep Kinect integration to the OS (as well as the pack-in) and sane application management looks leagues ahead of what's available on the 360. The architecure panel later was awesome, I'm a huge fan of Microsoft's work with Azure and the improvements to the backend and OS-machine hypervisors was also impressive to me. All the hubbub about used games or online authentication doesn't effect or bother me since I rarely buy used games and I have a reliable, persistent internet connection at home. I also just renewed my Xbox Live Gold sub, so that'll carry over, too. I'm in love with the new controller. Although I'm in love with the PS4 controller, too.
Cool minor things that I wasn't expecting: 15 MS Studios games year 1, 8 new IP. That at least has my interest piqued for E3. Remedy's new concept sounds great, and the Halo TV show should also be interesting.
Microsoft told me not to expect games, so I didn't. I got an inside look at the actual hardware, box, architecture, etc. just like they said. Now I await E3 for the games.
Exactly, it's like people expected 20 exclusives to be shown, even though they warned up this is a two-part story. The OS looks good and I like how quick I can go from one thing to the other. The kinect video after that showed it works in a completely dark room is pretty awesome too. FUD was great so I don't see how as Spielberg series can be anything but cool. And like you my current 360 hasn't been unplugged from the internet in years (as i'm sure is the case with many people) so it's not that big of a deal to me.