Bill Gates himself talks about the "camera thing".

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10286309-56.html

I suppose some will try to spin it as "console exclusive" or a "Microsoft exclusive"

Oops already posted.

http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=80000

A little over a year? Either that's confirmation on the long duration of this generation (yay for rhymes!) or on the release of the next XBox.

Natal has been confirmed to be an addition to Xbox 360 and Microsoft executives have stated that the system will be around well into the next decade.

Yeah now its ''Only on Microsoft''.

I think I'll spin it as "new standard for motion controls" and "never going to be on the Playstation 3."

The cancer is just spreading

Nothing surprising...

What is really funny is people don't see PCs as part of the console wars. Yet they are playing a large role for Microsoft.

I swear.

I mean hell, with this move, Natal is going to have much more meaning for the Xbox brand, as it is now no longer saddled to the 360. When it is released for Games for Windows(which is MS as well, btw OP) it will have a whole new audience, and a station to ride into the next console war. It won't be "last gen tech" since it's just a camera, and the firmware is what basically requires updating.

Very smart move for MS. Opens up their tech to a whole new audience, and expands the meaning of it into future generations. This is actually a huge boon for Natal, and certainly nothing bad for the 360.

Yeah I heard that news about 5 days ago...