PS. In the end though, that same hype would then obviously make the product fail in gamers eyes (since it wouldnt even release).

Every single video I've seen of Natal in action doesn't look like it's something that is sustainable. The simple concept of the hardware has far too many glaring flaws for me to believe that it will take off significantly.

1. Many people do not have the space in their living rooms (Much less their bedrooms) to be flailing their bodies and limbs about in the way I've seen demonstrators do on large empty stages.
2. The lack of something to hold or buttons to press will limit the number of games and that speed and accuracy with which games can be played. A controller might be a significant barrier for some people to play games, but it can just as easily be said that the lack of a controller could be just as big a barrier. It's possible that Microsoft could release some kind of controller to work with Natal, but that would completely defy to point of Natal to break the controller barrier and the device could be considered a failure.
3. Almost nothing I've seen beind done with Natal isn't capable of being done with Sony's PlayStation Eye.

As I've said before all the games that will end up using Natal will be a few party games from 3rd parties (like you'd see in Wii play) and maybe a couple XBLA games. I highly doubt there will be any full fledged big budget games that take advantage of Natal. Quote me on that.

Natal itself is great but there won't be enough games for it to justify spending any large amount of money on it.

Well i can see NATAL going either way... In my mind it just seems like a larger version of what the eye toy from what Sony tried to do. It has more features that the eye toy but in the end is used in similar ways. Some features I don't even understand how it's being able to detect motions, and other "games" just seem pointless, boring, and a wast of microsofts time. The thing is everyone is branching off to try new ways to get non-gamers to play (Wii), so congrats on microsoft in trying somthing somewhat new, but i believe that it is just a pointless now way to get more money. In the end, I think there is nothing big enough shown to keep this product alive so it's going to fail.

To be clear. Im not saying that the product itself will fail in any way, nor do i try to calculate the different variables that needs to be fulfilled for it to be successful or not. My concern is THE HYPE (capital letters).

THE HYPE, imo, has skyrocketed NATAL to the point where it through the eyes of the consumer basicly can not succeed, no matter how good the final product will be. People, like i stated a few post back, thinks that this product will let them take the roll of their favourite FPS character and let them play some sort of matrix shooter in their living rooms. Or to act like a war lord and vocally shout out orders to their RTS army on their way to global domination. And im 99% sure that will not be possible, so once NATAL finally goes live with its software line-up, it will "fail" no matter what. Even though it may have some really good casual games.

THE HYPE might help MS attract new customers, like richardhutnik posted above, but THE HYPE might just kill the value of NATAL itself once gamers get their hands on it.

Natal looks good, but when it comes to game development.... the nightmares will truly begin to the developers