The excitement I seem to detect mostly boils down to:

--the hardware seems genuinely powerful

--the architecture breaks from Sony's previous model, which should make ports and development much easier

--Major relief that the "nightmare scenarios" of used games being abolished and constant internet connections required at all times that everyone was fretting about did not come to pass, it seems.

..That's about all I took away. Everything else was...well...pretty standard, if not downright "meh".