Huber's list inspired me to start keeping track as well. It's a great idea for a thread too.
Work's been keeping me busy but so far my list is:
January:
Divinity Original Sin 2
February:
Doom (2016)
March:
Star Wars Episode 1 (The movie game, on PC)
April:
XCOM 2
May:
Bravely Default
What you say is true, tooling is quite important as well. The PS3 cell processor may have been powerful but it took ages for devs to learn to use it properly. What might be cool if new consoles stick with AMD is that this would be a rare case of console generations not having a drastic changes in architecture. So devs would spend less time re-working engines and tools and more time developing new stuff.
I think the leap in CPU performance (AI, Physics, and overall complexity in gameplay scenarios) is going to be bigger than people are expecting.
I've been researching CPU and GPU architecture for my masters project and I've found that the bobcat cores used in both Xbox one and PS4 were very much designed for ease of customization and manufacturing. Not as CPU number crunching powerhouses.
AMDs new architecture is quite impressive on the CPU front, I'd be surprised if they didn't leverage it for new console hardware.