Microsoft: You Don’t Get A Headset With Xbox One, That’s What The Kinect’s For

The Original Xbox Headset

Microsoft’s relationship with Plantronics started with this short-lived communicator, dubbed the Xbox Communicator. Using a “street style” around the back brace, you could freely move the mono speaker/headset from one side to the other at your preference. That is, until the armature that allowed it to click into the brace snapped. …and it always snapped. Also: losing that puck that the headset plugged into? No bueno. This originally came with the $35 Xbox Live Starter Kit with some demos and plugged into the top of the controller, taking over a memory card port. Wearing one of these felt like you were in the future since every game supported it, which was fine until other people started talking into. Highlight of this era of Xbox Live? Voice modulation. You could sound like a robot or a little girl or a demon or whatever and it’s sad that this functionality never made it to the 360…