Kinect was never very good with certain accents and languages, so it’s no surprise that Microsoft has revealed – in the small print of one of their pages – that the Xbox One won’t support voice commands in all countries at launch.
Point six at the bottom of the page states:
Xbox voice commands will not be available in all markets on the product release date. Voice commands will be available at launch in US, UK, CA, FR, and DE
It appears that voice control localisation wasn’t the reason for the massive delay in various European countries then, and eight countries will lose voice commands for Kinect at launch.
Given that Kinect is included with every console, and that Microsoft has stated time and time again that it’s a core part of the system, the fact that these controls won’t launch everywhere alongside console is ridiculous.
Source: NeoGAF
hazelam
this launch just seems to get more and more shambolic.
and still no launch date.