Found this while web-surfing. I thought of posting it in the x360 forum but it mentions the Wii too.

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has offered further hints at the direction Microsoft's gaming division is taking, and if his comments at last week's All Things D conference are anything to go by, Gates wants to outdo Nintendo's Wii.

"Software is doing vision and so, you know, imagine a game machine where you're just going to pick up the bat and swing it or the tennis racket and swing it", he said.

A bit like Wii then, Bill? "No, that's not it. You can't pick up your tennis racket. And swing it." Oh, right.

Earlier this year Xbox boss Peter Moore hinted that Wii-like motion controls might be in the Xbox's future. "We have plans. This does not come as a surprise", he said.

Frankly, we're quite happy with our bog-standard 360 controllers as they are, but with these increasingly common comments considered, E3 could just be the place where we see Microsoft shake things up"

Source here

So, is the Wii format the future? Are we looking at a possible miicrosoft Wii60?

Yep.

Xbox 720 coming coming sometime in 2009!

adding motion to 360 would be useless, most devs would not use it.

Yeah. First it was dangerous to swing an 8" wiimote while playing Wii sports. Now, Bill Gates expects us to swing full sized rackets and baseball bats inside our living room? Is he planning on making some sort of unbreakable TV. OR, is he going to come up with a Titanium Universal Wrist Strap, which attaches to your entire body?

Bill Gates is getting old... Maybe all that money has gotten to his head, or reached his head-assuming he is swiming in a pool of it.

If Microsoft abandoned the 360 in 2009, it'd be game over for them in the games industry.  Who'd want to buy a new system with such a short lifespan attached to it?  It'd be Sega all over again...

I guess William H Gates III has been living in 320-bedroom houses far too long to realize that people in countries such as Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan simply do not have the space to swing a racket inside their living rooms.

I actually had to check, by holding my TV's remote control, whether or not I could do a proper serving motion before I bought my Wii, being that ceilings here are quite low.

No I think he is referring to something closer to the power glove only with a great deal more motion sensing. My guess is a glove that controls what your hands do in the game. If you open your hand the hand on screen opens as well. That sort of thing. Either Wii is a Gimmick or a great idea, I wish Microsoft could make up its mind.

i hope more games like baseball games wih motion sensing come out....but it has to be done right....its bad enough having bad console controls, but to feel out of control actually doing the motions would be dangerous......wii sports are fun because they are lighthearted and simple...to create a REAL tennis experience with the nunchuck, and real physics will be difficult....baseball would be even harder......

Motion sensing is amazing, but its not just about the novelty, IMO the best games on the Wii, SPM and Zelda both use the wii controls properly.....we will not see games like people are envisioning, it just wont be crisp enough to be enjoyable, it will be too frustrating 

Its not a Great Idea until Microsoft does it... Next-gen console will probably spontaneously combust, because the Red Ring is a great idea...

Red Ring lol. But i think too that he was talking about some kind of VR expierience, but he made the mistake of blatantly using areas where the Wii tread first as an example. Even his own execs made fun of him.

I think this is what Nintendo is trying to do. By the time Sony or Microsoft releases motion controls, Nintendo will have already INVENTED the next best thing.