Ok, we all know that kinect is mandatory with the new Xbox. Get over it, right? The problem is that MS is not bundling a headset with the console but instead expecting people to communicate to the console and/or teammates using this kinect.

What do you do if you invested in an expensive surround sound set? I understand kinect has noise cancelling, but to what extent would this work? Games these days are LOUD so I expect a massive amount of muting or echoing in online lobbies.

I guess those people with expensive sounds system will have to buy a headset...

i bet there will be a version without kinect

But the ones who choose to ignore getting a headset: They'll cause excessive echoes in the lobbies due to the kinect picking up sounds from the t.v.

Yeah this will most likely happen. People will just have to mute those folks and maybe send them a PM telling them to buy a headset...

Microsoft has trumpeted the noise cancelling on Kinect 2.0 quite a bit, maybe they got us covered.

This is a disaster waiting to happen. I can see many people not getting a headset or even not using a headset they own because they just "don't care". Depending on factors like placement, speaker loudness, delay, distance between the Kinect and the player, ambient noise... could make people unintelligible.

kinect is not mandatory acording to MS

Kinect can be turned off at anytime unless it is needed for games. So if you don't buy a headset and don't want to use Kinect then turn Kinect off.

What if someone screams XBOX OFF???

It does look very good - http://youtu.be/6Dcn6wWhiv0?t=4m39s