I'm so at excited and at ease about this upcoming gen. I honestly don't care which is the strongest console. All I care about is that they give the developers what they need to make great games, and there is nothing that I have seen about Durango that indicates they aren't doing that. Who cares who runs at the highest resolution, or who has the most bells and whistles, just give me great and enjoyable games. Make me feel that the console I'm getting is not only a great core games machine, but that I'm also getting a really solid value and set of services with it.
I'm excited about the prospect of how prepared both Sony and Microsoft appear to be to try and outdo one another to earn our support. People tend to overlook these things, but these consoles will be connected in ways that would honestly once seem like a dream for any games console. You remember when this stuff seemed outrageous? Well, we are well beyond that now. In many ways I think people won't appreciate the significance until they see it happen, but this may very well be a bigger features, services and peripherals generation than some think.