Re:Purchase On Impulse? (Score 1)

At £50, it costs more than most games cost, and given that games themselves aren't impulse buys (at least, not for me anyway), then I wouldn't call this an impulse buy either.

However, what you don't consider is that if the games supporting Natal are as numerous as is being suggested, then the potential market should be quite large - think about how many people have spent £70 on plastic guitars that can only be used for a handful of games (not to mention drum kits). It looks like there will be more Natal games at launch than there are guitar games in total (even though Activision aim to have that number doubled by the end of the year..), so the chances of someone buying this would be significantly greater.. and that would just be for existing Xbox gamers.

I'm sure there are also more people like myself that want to involve other people in games (ie. getting my gf to play, but equally others may be aiming to get parents involved, etc) but do not want to buy a Wii to do it. Again Natal opens that possibility if the right games are there, even if Natal controls in games is not something that I want to use myself.

Of course, same will apply the PS3 wand system assuming that falls into a similar pricing level.