Trade-off concept can come into play...as microsoft tends to reduce the price of the console, the specs will increase with Natal and thus bringing the price of the console to around same or likely more. Wand on the other hand will be launched after price-cut bringing in on the same fate. And then we need to see the sales of the HD consoles as real test begins. It mite be time for either consoles to reconsider a new successor, especially the one that mite fail to attract masses.