Wait- I knew about the Wiimote rumours, but now they're copying the Miis too? :p Hahaha that's too funny! :p
Also, as far as them making 'realistic' Miis to appeal to the hardcore crowd the Xbox360 caters to, errm, that would make absolutely NO sense at all if they mean to attract the 'casual' crowd like the Wii. They already have the hardcore gamers. They don't have to convince them to get their machine. It's the casuals and 'non-gamers' they want, I assume that would be the whole point of making a Wiimote-like controller and Mii-system. Making these 'realistic' and such will do nothing but alienate the mainstream casual crowd and turn them off.
And I think it's far too late into this generation to pull something like this off. Wii was built from the ground up around the concept of user-friendliness, motion-sensing IR controls and the Mii/Wii channels system. Trying to tag things like that onto an already established 'hardcore' HD console doesn't make that much sense. It will get far, far less games that make use of the motion controls, and people who buy these games would also be forced to buy the Wiimote-controller.
Time will tell, but I really, really cannot see this work out well for Microsoft.
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