Some disturbing information about the new "always on" Kinect features, how the new Xbox One will require users to turn it on and have it identify them before they can play, and how the system also requires an internet connection at least once a day, possibly to upload use data related to it's interactive eye and heart scanning advertisemant programs...

http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/07/new-xbox-by-nsa-partner-microsoft-will-watch-you-247/#ixzz2VYZSDzox

I believe that is what http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1462523-next-generation-consoles-4/ is for.

I like the name X-Bone.

I like to think that the voice it communicates in will be rather slow witted as well. Not to mention that if it were to be anthropomorphised that it would sit in the corner of the room eating glue grunting and saying "Okie" intermittently before poking itself in the eye.

Indeed.