Who said anything about abandoning the controller? Of course they won't do that. Wouldn't make any sense to exclude. Even if some hardcore games have motion support, in one way or another, there will most likely be an option to turn it off and just use your controller.

MS has always implicitly retained the xbox360 controller for those who prefer to use it.

Kinect has been misaligned by the press and the haters as trying to replace the controller. Of course, this thinking is quite ignorant.

While Kinect has the 'ability' to control menus and interactivity, it does not purport to replace anything.
Kinect, in its pure form, ENHANCES the aspects that we are used to, while retaining the familiar.

For precisely that reason, MS has retained the handheld controller as its primary interface, for the 360.

The kinect functionality is an addition to the features of the 360.
It does not seek to 'replace' anything.

It seems there's a lot of haters, fanboys and websites that are missing this crucial point.
What's with that?
Why are people so bitter and negatively one-sided?

try to bring sense and logic in here commodore, don't you know you'll just get disagrees for it? :(

I suspect the voice recognition software will capture voice samples from the people who will be using it. I can't imagine that it would take commands from anyone else. If it does however, that would be incredibly funny.

You need to post a youtube video, so I can laugh at u.

Kinect is retarded

Unfortunately, your comment shows a lack of understanding of modern audio software and technology.

One of the things mentioned in the article and utilized by multiple software and hardware products is noise cancellation and also a system which knows what audio is being output by a device so that it does not take the output as input, it cancels that out as well.

Sony even implemented similar technology into the PS3eye. While this technology is not perfect, it would likely be sufficent to solve the scenario you described.

Beyond this scenario, a simple solution to the problem would be to disable voice commands while within the context of an application (game). This would prevent any incoming voices from ordering the system to take an action.

Lastly, as is already known, Kinect requires additional CPU and memory from the system to function. As a result, games like MW2 will not have the Kinect device enabled while the user is playing. As such, it will not be able to handle voice commands.

The last thing that even if none of the above were in effect that would likely prevent your idea from working is that most gamers utilize headsets while playing. In this scenario, your speech is not likely to reach the Kinect device.

That's true, but it gets worse. I remember seeing independent analysis from CNET or something like that. They concluded that PS3 was not only the cheapest, but also had the best video quality of any BD player.