I did answer the question though in my opinion some of the basic features of the XB one will require Kinect and will prompt the user when launching the said app or menu and same will go with some games....
the head count theory is a broken one.... I could easily turn the Kinect sensor toward a single person in my living room rendering the idea useless...
but lets admit this will be enforced why has it to be negative on the consumer... who is to say it won't be cheaper per head than a PPV ticket is today??? or it could be used for day 1 release of movies... and here too it could be cheaper to pay per head a 5 bucks ticket than go to the local theatre and pay 10 bucks per head (theoretical pricing here)...
the second point is not vailable either.... since your sample is not random it'd be a sample of gamer enthusiast only.... you have very little information through just the eye of Kinect beside physical features and head count, nothing on the household income, taste, type of housing etc.... Nielsen studies would be still vastly superior to anything MS with Xbox could ever come up with....
and once again why would it be bad ???? after all those studies are made to provide products and content that appeal always more to the customers.... I don't see how that would be bad to have better quality programing on TV based on what people are apparently enjoying the most.... ???
but in any case if they wanted to do that they would have to expressively let you know that they are collecting data for marketing purposes.... and lets imagine MS is the true evil here and doesn't tell you and does it completely illegally.... it wouldn't take me 10 second to realize the sham.... so enough with the conspiracy theories they are all more broken than the other....
