The WiiFit Board is already copied.

Here is a link to the german amazon site, which sells the black Version from Snakebyte:

http://www.amazon.de/Premium-Fitness-Board-schwarz-Wii/dp/B002R9J5TO/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1276096310&sr=8-4

Or does this not count as copied?

Yes I have WiiFitted and honestly so has my whole family and we dont give a rats ass about the posture and balance parts of it.  What I have noticed with doing the exercising that my wife and I committed to starting in January is that although we dont use any of the WiiFit posture and balance exercises the test that WiiFit puts you through shows that simply doing more exercising has improved our posture and balance.  Not to mention we at this point dont know how sensitive to movement that Natal will be.  Maybe it will be able to detect very slight movements.  We will find out soon.

Sony's goal is not to jump headlong into the new market, they are juist trying to stop Nintendo at the current tier (which is where Motion Plus is). Sony only needs games for that tier. Microsoft is trying to absorb the new market, but they will probably make their own fitness game for Natal.

At this pointe I say If Xbox not going to sell much more. and they are dead in Japan. why dont they just integrat Natal into a New Next gen Consule.

I think thats what MS need to do with Natal. Make the experience a hole new Consule.  But im geting off topic now sorry.

I dont see the Twins making a balence bord.  Its like smashchu says Sony just wants to stall Nintendo on its motion control

exclusive.

Albion,

That is a great idea. MS thinks they have a really good product here, but they should wait 3-4 years and release it with the next Xbox.

Like other people said, Sony and Microsoft consoles are mostly geared towards hardcore gamers, and I'm not sure hardcore Halo fans would enjoy doing yoga in front of their TV as much as they would enjoy playing Halo.

That's because you don't have enough immagination. MS could exploit its best brand's recognition and launch Halo Yoga, it would sell like hotcakes, with sunning effects: Halo fans would remain as fat and pimply as ever before, but they'd become a lot more peaceful and relaxed... Imagine them ditching their black, skulls and thunderbolts ridden heavy metal t-shirts and their stinking sneakers and start wearing colourful tunics and indian sandals, smoking curiously smelling leaves, putting flowers into their virtual guns... The next step would be ditching old FPS and pretending new Halo FPS (but this time meaning First Person Smokers). Imagine, it's easy if you try!   

The thing is Sony and MS are not in the industry to make software easyer better and for more kinds of people. 

They are 3 very diffrent companys with 3  very diffrent agendas. Sony and MS have no branch that inovate for Software to expand there market. It may make one but always will remain a after thought.

Nintendo as a Software studio Is the exeption to this. they see it as. if they can sell easy and cheap software to new  100 million  costumer userbase it will have succeded, to expand the market they always have been in.

Dont expect Sony or MS to make anything other then copy cats of Nintnedo. its not why they are in this bisness.  Could they change this. YES. Sony and MS can start Devloping and Inovating. but it see's this as more of a  money sink then Nintnendo, so Nintendo will always make a bigger effort of it.

I see MS going this route. Natal looks very much like they want to open a Devlopment and inovation section in the company and Fund it with proper cash for results.

Albion,

Wow you drink the Nintendo cool-aide

Not sure how he is drinking the "kool-aide." Most of what he said is true. Sony has never been an innovator and have copied a lot of stuff from Nintendo. They also are not focused on growing the market. if they were, they wouldn't have made $400 and $600 systems.