I'm sorry but I got to say something here. As an network engineer I know its not trivial to make something from Draft to standard. Theres a lot of thought and qualitiy checks that needs to go into a standard.

Think about it, they have to make sure it works for upwards of a couple hundred million possibly billions of devices. I think they want to make sure its correctly done.

I agree Levi,

I'm fine with co-op but I hate it when the game suffers in single player mode. Like you said it sucks playing single player with computer controlled co-op like having bad co-op A.I. or stupid 'game ends if co-op player dies rules' or even game is too difficult to play by yourself meaning you 'must' have a another human to win.

Some cases where playing an 'intended' m-player game as a single player:
1) When no ones on line where you are on the campaign.
2) You want to play a quick game in the middle of the night but cant find anyone (similar to #1)
3) You brought a used copy a year after the release and no one is online to play with.

@gordo

I read the article and it doesn't say that all tasks are done on the "on board processor". The custom processor may process some of the initial sensor data. But I think that a lot of the major tasks are done by the 360.

For example do you think that the Wii could run Natal, if you just attach the camera to it? I doubt it.

Obviously the addon just adds a new better camera and mic. But the most of the processing of Natal is done using the 360 hardware. Its called post-processing.

Yeah I have to also agree. Not sure why lots of people didn't like it. The story was lacking but the game play was absolutely fun. Isn't that 80-90% the point of a game?

Yes the "[The] always satisfying lunge maneuver..." is always good! ;-)

My strategy is "Store and Forward"

I absolutely agree with you. Its actually pretty obvious why XBL do not give you "real" previews. They hope that people will spend money on a couple of themes that really suck until they find one they like.

Its like going from Xbox to Atari because Obamas campain was used to high level of tech but now moving into the white house there is a much lower level of tech (well at least the facebook kind of tech)
hence Xbox -> Atari

Hope I win!