I hate being right all the time... (not really).

So Sony has shown its hand, and based on what's been revealed so far, a lot of my predictions have turned out to be accurate; cloud-based backwards compatibility, a pad with an identical button layout, even if it's not a carbon copy in terms of shape, and the console being based on developer-friendly 'supercharged PC'-style architecture. I did get the name wrong though, as they've gone for plain old Playstation 4 as opposed to the more exotic but probably more consumer confusing Playstation Orbis or similar moniker that I predicted. 

As impressive as everything sounded in the many impassioned speeches given by Sony high-flyers during the presentation, it's important to remember that at this point the console itself is little more than vaporware, and may not even have a final form factor yet. The demonstration footage of games currently in development for the new hardware looked breathtaking at face value, particularly that of Killzone: Shadowfall, but whether any of it will look quite as good on your television at home this time next year is, at this point,  an unknown. After all, no Playstation 2 title ever looked quite as good as that remastered dance scene from Final Fantasy VIII that Sony used as a showcase for that console's graphical capabilities, did it?

Personally, I was most excited about Blizzard's announcement of a partnership between them and Sony, the first fruits of which will be a port of Diablo III for both Playstation 3 and Playstation 4. I'm a huge Blizzard fan and have waiting a very long time for them to finally dip their toes back into console development. While  Blizzard didn't explicitly state that the console version of the game would be a Playstation exclusive, describing their relationship with Sony as a partnership does imply such an scenario, and I would imagine that an Xbox port of Diablo III is precluded by the closed nature of Xbox Live and the Xbox platform as a whole.

If the promises made at this historic announcement are delivered, Sony may yet wrestle control of western living rooms back from Microsoft. Your move, Chief.