Xbox Natal is to 360 what Wii is to Gamecube?

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theprof00 said:

I wrote this 1 year ago and everyone called me an idiot.

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=49440&page=1

Slightly different perspective, but same concept.

Forward compatible, small increase

I guess the difference is that we now have more viable reasons for them to release updated hardware between advances in TV technology to 3D and new controllers as well as the general aging of the console 'fleet', so to speak.