It just seems to me that marketing natal as a seperate add-on would be a really bad idea. I don’t really care how well it sells though, as long as I don’t have to buy one to get the supposed upgrade.

I play my 360 at my desk, using my monitor. There’s no room for jumping around hitting virtual balls or bending over like an elephant so the full body motion wouldn’t really benefit me.

Even if they do combine CPU/GPU onto one chip, there isn’t going to be much room inside to store the natal components.

The Sega Saturn had an expansion port, and there were 2MB and 4MB RAM carts available in Japan that allowed some games to have more sprites (mostly Capcom fighting games).

If they could somehow create a ram cart for 360, that plugs into the multi-av port or into the memory card slots…I don’t see any other way to do it.

The 360 is capable of running 6 threads simultaneously (1 being reserved for OS use). Even in the PC space, not many games are currently running 3 threads.

The new chip and natal built into the same case and re-branded so they can market it to casuals makes more sense to me than an actual upgrade.

I assume they will be moving to a smaller die process, which reduces energy requirements and costs (more chips per silicon wafer).

I think this will allow them to have a more effective cooling solution than the original and current design.

This may reduce latency in CPU to GPU communications, but I doubt it will affect performance by any measurable amount.