While Project Natal may very well revolutionize the Xbox 360, Microsoft Game Studios head Phil Spencer says that the company has no intentions of stopping there. In fact, he says they want to continue evolving the console well beyond that point.

"We effectively reinvented the Xbox once already when we rewrote the dashboard," Spencer explained to Develop in an interview, citing the New Xbox Experience and addition of Avatars as a "major transformation" for the platform.

"It's not about trying to sell consumers a new piece of hardware at the wrong time," he continued, "it's about evolving the platform continuously. And we are going to find things, like Natal, that are hardware-related to also do that."

"When Natal is added to 360, which is already an online-enabled powerful box, it starts a new generation of entertainment."