That Xbox headset of yours will soon have improved sound quality, promise. This was Microsoft's claim upon releasing more information on their updates for the Xbox 360 this coming Fall.

The company apparently plans to launche the new design of the Xbox 360 in time with the launch of Kinect. Included in the redesign will be an upgraded codec and audio infrastruction, which determines the quality of voice communcation from one console to another. Now there should be no reason for teammates to blame miscommunication with one another when failing a mission in one of your multiplayer games.

Explained XBL Studios head Jerry Johnson at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival, "The codec we used when we first launched was a low bit rate codec and we stuck with that. We launched and we said we required broadband.We required a 64k connection, which not many people think of as broadband any longer. But that was the minimum requirement to run the service at the time.

It's time for us to move on. Especially if we want to think about broadening - a crackly headset on the top of your head – not what people think of when they talk about popular entertainment."

Hopefully they'll be able to deliver on this promise well enough. Multiplayer teams are counting on it.

Via [Eurogamer]

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