This being a gaming forum I know it's sort of natural for the focus of the Nextbox to be hardware power but that's the least important aspect for it be successful imo. 95% of the gaming world really don't care about high end graphics. The Wii selling almost 100 million really emphasis that. Microsoft ought to offer new gameplay experiences that can't be found elsewhere. Otherwise I believe the Nextbox will be less successful in terms of sales than the 360. There has to be a 'catch'. Whether you like it or not, the mass market likes 'gimmicky' things. I really wonder if Microsoft has something that would be a mass market attention grabber for its next console. Maybe they will go the U Pad route with improvements?
They already have a natural interface... it's called Kinect... it's succesful... and a Kinect 2 will be even more precise and have higher resolution