Pads etc
The Controllers, with the release of the US XBox a lot of comments have been made, the controllers are indeed large, but they are easy to use - not as simple as our Gamecube controllers which are smaller and easier to hold. Microsoft has adopted a very clever system in to this though, a break away connectors, this is to stop the console from being pulled off a shelf or where ever it is located. They are connected via USB, so in theory you could wire other systems to the console.
We were going to take apart the console but we decided to opt out of this at the moment, there are good pictures of this over at HardOCP.
We will do a full feature of the games for this in separate reviews.