Its going to sell consoles because its going to be bundled with a console idiot. Nobody is going to buy a separate 360 console and then buy a Natal package later. If they buy a console they will have Natal therefore MAGIC = Natal sold a console. No the price will not go up, it will stay the same with Natal. The unbundled 360's prices will go down. All this before a holiday = huge sales bump.

I think that sony is a better machine , but they are too far behind microsoft at the moment. and in a world wide recession.which will slow down sales across the board . i see them both suffering . i do belive that microsoft banning modded consoles from the live service will turn some die hard 360 fans to free online gaming ,  i my self will be purchasing the cod mod2 on the ps3 which is a first for me .both systems have thier good points :-

`the sony is a much better dvd / blu ray / music /has more power in graphics department , while the x360 has the people online to play with vod / games od/ and is pretty much more flexible online .with a bigger games catalogue.

                i can not see either getting any better the sony is a slimmer machine but the first gen console was the best made with sacd and battle ship build quality. hence the very exspensive price .the 360 will never hit the $99 mark not for at least 2 years anyway . and most game sales for the 360 are pirate coppies . so the gaming industry loses every time with the 360 at the moment . sony will have to up thier online gaming and attract millions more to thier online service . which is pants compaired to microsofts live service . and microsoft are going to have to fit a blu ray drive to combat piracy. ....there is room for them both in this world ..... i have both

presumptions only not facts. i think liverpool will win the league next year ....not likley lol ...but you see it could be possible. microsoft will have to pull out all the stops with thier sham of a customer service .. millions of  units which have had the dreaded 3 red lights , and scratch discs . i am on  my  3rd 360 .and lots of shagged games aswell :(

bitch bitch bitch.....they are both going to become cheaper ...hence the quality will go down ..thats until one of them has the balls to make something with the power of a modern up to date pc.. other wise they will carry on and please the share holders by cutting back on quality ..to make £&$.

And another week of PS3 outselling 360 in every region.

who cares

I think all the natal lovers are forgetting something important here, and that is the PS motion wand would have been released way before natal, if you ask me natal is going to come too late and too expensive.
Also the sales of FFXIII and GT5 will push the PS3 to the same install base as the xbox 360, the trouble is there is no must have exlusives for the xbox 360 this year, halo and forza have already come out, and really if anyone wants MW2 they can get it for the PS3 as well.
I predict by next christmas(2010) the war will be over and PS3 will have 2nd spot, and microsoft will kill xbox 360 just so they can jump on the next xbox bandwagon and try and get the better of Sony, but it will not pay off again.

GT5 and FFXIII aren't this year either so the PS3 has no must have exclusives by your logic this year either.  If you mean over the next year then the 360 has Halo Reach, Crackdown 2, Alan Wake, Mass Effect 2, etc.  Microsoft are in profit so can cut the price of the 360 anytime they please which will boost sales, plus they can also release a new "slim" model if they wanted too.  Sony has no cards left to play other than on price which the company canot afford, there is only one company on dangerous ground here and it isn't Microsoft.  Note I didn't even need to mention Natal which has huge hype already in the mdeia unlike the wand.

Ok you really are delusional, halo or forza do not push the same amounts of sales as any ff or gt franchise, so yes they will make a difference, what i meant was that everyone who wanted those games already has bought them, it's always the same with xbox games everyone always rushes out to buy it on day one or week one, its different here, we like to spread things out a bit which is why uncharted 2 still sold 200k recently, it will keep on selling well for the rest of christmas, after christmas it will hit 2m which ios not bad at all.
Natal is going to come too late and too expensive, and ultimately nobody will care as much about it, as for the hype its getting, just wait till the PS Wand comes out, that hype is going to die, especially as we all know Natal is really just an eyetoy in disguise

natal will sell i think... wii is losing its steam so there is alot of opportunities that
sony a microsoft can take to obtain a share of the casual market.
Its all about marketing xD