Microsoft Natal. Will we see an increase in console sales when it arrives?

[DirtyP2002]

mrstickball said:
One other thing I'd mention about the precedent of this happening:

Nintendo has had a great track record of breathing life into dead consoles with sweeping hardware revisions. They've done it twice: Once with the Gameboy/Gameboy Color, and another with the DS revisions which were decent sized overhauls. If MS does it right, we could essentially see the 360 break the typical sales peak at year 3, and maybe even peak at year 5 or 6 - a dream for Microsoft, really.

good point.

I think Natal will move consoles. Not just a big spike, the sales will be sustainable.

The media will go crazy about it, MS will advertise this like crazy, it will be bundled and the developer support will be there. I can't see it fail in any way.

Sega is working on it, Square Enix is working with it, Rare is focussed on it, Take Two is playing around with it, THQ got them as well, Lionhead has at least one Natal-thing coming up (Milo), EA has them, too.

And I would not be surprised if the Microsoft Game Studios are working on this as well.

A fitness-game is coming, I bet my money on this. MS already said that Natal will be their next generation without the need to launch a new console. So this gen will still last for a very long time.