The wii is successful because it makes playing games easier, Natal makes it even easier. Therefore more people can play and are interested.

How does using Natal make thing's easier?, from what we've seen so far Natal relies on more effort being used to make the game fun.

On Topic: Natal has received plenty of marketing before release, it's known in the casual American market and bring's an interesting concept to gaming (sshh about Eye Toy). These are reasons why it 'may' be succesful, no one know's what could happen. No one has seen any decent software for it, no one know's if all the previous bug's it had have now been fixed and no one know's it's price. It could very well be the greatest thing to happen to gaming, it could be a complete flop or it could fall in the middle and become the Xbox Eye-toy. Wait untill E3.

Oh, I agree with all this.  And I think Natal will shift quite a healthy amount of units.

I just think it's worth pointing out the massive difference in industry response to Natal versus Move, or even Wii really (which still has head-in-the-sand press, analysts and developers predicting it's inevitable downfall... any day now).  And most of that comes down to Microsoft's amazing stagecraft imo.  Sony and Nintendo could learn a thing or two from them...

A standard xbox controller has 16 buttons and 2 joysticks. 

Natal has your body.

If you look at other forms of entertainment they dont require skill, and if they do very little.

Listening to music 

Watching a movie

Reading a book

All of those are simple and require no skill.

I don't think anything. At least, until I see some actual games for it.

to be honest no one really thinks this apart from the hadrcore xbox 360 fans, the 360 needs something to get its ass back in the fight and for the 360 fans they want natal to be "it"

That look's like alot more effort than reading a book

The biggest issue is lag, which will keep natal from being as good as MS wants until we can have faster processors to make NATAL virtually lag-free. This will be a few years, perhaps the 720 will be somewhat more optomized for NATAL so that this will happen. Either way, Natal will be a B- product for a while.

Because they are going to bundle it into every single xbox sold after it's release.

I think most of the hype you are seeing is manufactured by viral marketers being paid by MS, or industry analysts who's best interest it is for MS do to well in the industry.

I think most actual gamers aren't getting too hyped with a more improved PS eye hardware that hasn't even shown any game for it yet, and will probably end up costing $100+.