| Strategyking92 said: You can see a remote happening? There is already one, the dvd 360 remote  I think that is unlikely in all seriousness, but then again, you were right about FF13... |
Looking what they have done or will do. 1. The the next Xbox revision is a system on a chip design. They're integrating everything into one chip so they can simplify the design. It makes perfect sense to do this if you want to combine the device with other electronics because you can radically simplify the design or add more board elements without having complicated PCB tracing.
2. The update in Xbox live would work VERY well with an airmouse type design. Its very visual and with an air mouse it looks like it would work very well. http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/mice/devices/3443&cl=us,en Check out the above link, thats an example of what Nintendo copied to make the Wiimote. So I doubt Patent protection would help much to prevent the concept from being copied.
3. The new focus on Buzz/Interactive game show type events. This would work extremely well as interactive TV and would fit into the Cable company model.
4. A smaller Xbox360 has a lot of synergestic parts with a standard Cable box. Record functions - done on HDD which can be shared with game downloads and the Xbox360 CPU can be used to compress and encode video streams on the fly. It would't cost much more money for an Xbox360 Cable box vs a Vanilla Cable box with similar capabilities. The extra expense would be more than covered by the extra revenue from delivering Live and other services/games via Cable.
5. The TV market is stagnating or shrinking with the key 18-35 male demographic spending less time watchign Television. They can try to get them back by integrating more features and making TV more relevant to the viewers.
6. An airmouse would work perfectly for changing channels and selecting content. Infact for many people it may work better than a standard remote. I think their next move is integration and online content delivery. They can do both and implement an airmouse at the same time whilst tapping into new markets.
Tease.
