(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Microsoft has confirmed to IGN that Xbox One will not come bundled with a headset, as per Xbox 360 tradition. Instead, Microsoft points to Kinect's "highly sensitive multi-array microphones designed to enable voice inputs and chat as a system-level capability, both in-game and with Skype and other experiences."


If you want a standard Microsoft Xbox One headset (which Microsoft calls "a must-have," ironically), you'll have to purchase it separately. Additionally, Turtle Beach headsets and Polk headphones will be available following the console's launch. For context, Sony doesn't default to packing a headset with PlayStation hardware, but the PlayStation 4 is bundling a mono earpiece and mic.

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Something else extra on-top of the already overpriced Xbone...

Oh god no!
Kinect has a crappy mic.

Lol it will pick all the background noise up

come on, does this really honestly surprise anyone.

Doesn't the kinect have a microphone and it's wireless don't you want that instead of wires around you and in your head. or just want to be pro gammer you just go and get astro headset or Tritton

all Xbox360 owners know how annoying a kinect microphone is whilst playing games. its so loud and echo like hell on its own.

Yea I fear what this means.
Hope they bundle it after all PS4 is going to do that.

Well it's for the new gamers that will want a decent headset gaming that comes with the bundle. I myself will just plug my own headset if it's compatiable with the new gaming console.

Not a big surprise, is it? Go greedy-ass, mother fucking, full of SHIT XBONE :fa: