Steve Ballmer spoke at the Executive’s Club lounge in Chicago today or yesterday now for us and spoke about quite a few things but he did make one big announcement…

In 2010 a new Xbox 360 will hit the stores and be equipped with technology that is really really close to “actually”, the console will have a built in camera and a ‘natural interface’ that will be able to recognise movement and voice. This could be linked to a demostration Microsoft did a week or two back with the new Xbox Natal they called it, see video here.

Looks very interesting and 2010 is not far away now… If you like you can see coverage from there event here from TG Daily

**Update – just been checking around and while its a ‘new’ console the Natal will work wilth current consoles it seems and just the consoles in 2010 will have it built it. At least now we know when Natal will go live. Click here to see more on Natal.