I think your understanding of the "average" living room is also way off.  Sure some areas will be restricted like dorms and small apartments that college kids/single people will have (though my own apartment is plenty big enough for Kinect).

Most people with families will have a large enough living room space to support the 8ft necessary for 2 players.

Also, I think the lag comments are exaggerated and you only notice them because you specifically are looking for them.  The only game I have played so far that saw noticeable lag which took away from the gameplay was Rallyball and to a lesser extent reflex ridge.  Most of the time when simply playing the games it worked so well that you didn't notice lag at all.

Dance Central isn't masking/hiding the lag, either.  It works because it is taking the raw data and matching it up to the dance move you have to do.  The only place where lag is present in Dance Central is when it returns the data in your body outline on the right side or during free style and even then it is very minor.

Hell, even Kinect Joy Ride worked surprisingly well for me.  It takes you a little practice to get the right turn gesture down and to figure out how much gesture is needed for certain turns, but after that was settled it was pretty fun!

The voice control and hand guided menus worked flawlessly for me and I loved them.

The lag basically kills it for anything "serious" that requires precise timing and reaction.
I tried playing New Super Mario Bros once at a friend's place, and their HDTV's processing introduced lag, which made it pretty much unplayable (missed jumps, enemies/projectiles hit by mistake). After we were about to give up, we discovered that the TV had a special game mode, and then it was fine.

Unfortunately for Kinect there's no button to press (hah!) to turn off the lag.

Right?  Because we're talking about people who bought Wii's for 100% price mark up, people. lol

I was called a liar by nightsurge, this is exactly how i felt with kinect, having played it with more space than maxwell had, it's kind of sad, that you can't give TRUTHFUL IMPRESSIONS of what you experienced, without being attacked by "fans"

you either have to say something good about it, or something slightly bad about it, but if you decide to give a full in impression, you're a liar

-everyone that posted in my thread

Ugh, everything I hear on Kinect sounds awful.  But goddamn... I NEED Project Draco, Steel Battalion, etc. :/

How many meters do you need to be apart from the camera for it to work?

You mean everything you hear from PS fans.

All the MS fans seem to love it as well as the casual audience that is playing/buying it.

I never called you a liar.

"I guess it's pretty easy to make stuff up on the internet, and since you've never been a fan of the 360 or Kinect it really is hard to believe you."

It was pretty funny when you massively edited your OP to remove all the trolling comments.  Now it is 1/3 of the original OP.  God, I wish I had quoted your OP.  Also, you do realize that both you and Maxwell are heavily PS favoring individuals so any impressions from you guys will be clouded with a lot of bias whether you intend for it or not.

Of course, it all makes sense now! The weak launch line-up and the lag were created by Playstation-fans to harm Kinect! Damn you, Playstation fans and your diabolical plan! *shakes fist*

Lol, nope.  Just the awful exaggerations!

In comparison the Kinect line-up is actually fairing better than the Move line-up, btw.