Microsoft announces a slim down XBOX 360 and renames their motion sensor that was known as “Project Natal” a thing that you add to your XBOX 360 that lets you do some foolish things while gaming, the new name is Kinect. It gets better because with this new XBOX you get a built in Wifi adapter inside this thinner 360. It looks great and a bit shiny, but this is a great thing because the wireless card for the 360 was like $70 bucks so now that it’s bundled the possibilities are endless.

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One of Microsoft’s top people, Steve Ballmer has hinted that Natal will probably come in as a 360 bundle. If you don’t what Natal is well it’s basically Microsoft’s competitor to the Nintendo Wii, and the PS3 eye camera motion technology. Where Natal separates itself is that no controller or gamepad will be used and if used it will be for very few things unlike the Wii and Playstation 3.

“for that big screen device here’s a piece of hardware that we build, there’s no diversity. You get exactly the Xboxes that we build for you. We may have more form factors in the future that are designed for various price points and options, but we think it’s going to [be] important.

“And when you see this Natal camera that comes with the Xbox this Christmas, I think what you’ll wind up saying is I’m glad they’re doing some hardware, too, because it permits a different kind of innovation, and we want to have both of those muscles working on behalf of you the user and the developer”

[Gearlog]