No Kinect voice control at launch

ic1male · 24 Aug 2010 at 13:20

From Eurogamer - http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-08-24-no-kinect-voice-control-at-launch

The most hilarious line in this article (I haven't stop peeing myself with laughter yet) is -

Last week Microsoft's vice president of interactive entertainment Chris Lewis told Eurogamer core gamers will "love that they can jump into a game like Joy Ride, which should really appeal to the hardcore community".

mcwildcard · 24 Aug 2010 at 14:00

At this rate Kinect is going to end up just being a painted smarties tube.

chrisxuk · 24 Aug 2010 at 14:05

Also there might not be the video chat as well at launch...

Fortyseven · 24 Aug 2010 at 14:07

What will hurt sales least, missing features with unrealiable ETAs or a push back of launch?

Clearly Microsoft think the former, I am not so sure.

iamtheoneneo · 24 Aug 2010 at 14:10

oh dear, yet a further nail in the coffin, so lets count up what we have so far:

no voice control
pretty much have to be standing up
ridiculous price tag
lack of games
removal of dedicated cpu
reduction of joint positions from what was orginally proposed.

Result! well done MS

PiKe · 24 Aug 2010 at 14:11

UPDATE: Microsoft has confirmed that Kinect WILL launch with voice control.

Nanoman · 24 Aug 2010 at 14:13

iamtheoneneo said:
oh dear, yet a further nail in the coffin, so lets count up what we have so far:

no voice control
pretty much have to be standing up
ridiculous price tag
lack of games
removal of dedicated cpu
reduction of joint positions from what was orginally proposed.

Result! well done MS

The biggest thing is laaaggg.

braveheart · 24 Aug 2010 at 14:36

Yes Kinect will include the voice control so its near 2 month time - Ive pre-ordered for my Xbox 360 Slim 250GB.

iamtheoneneo · 24 Aug 2010 at 14:37

braveheart said:
Yes Kinect will include the voice control so its near 2 month time - Ive pre-ordered for my Xbox 360 Slim 250GB.

why??????

Dave85 · 24 Aug 2010 at 16:30

I hope this flops so badly.

PiKe · 24 Aug 2010 at 16:33

What happens if you're playing a game and get really angry, telling the AI or whatever to **** off, then the Xbox goes off? That would be really frustrating

iamtheoneneo · 24 Aug 2010 at 16:49

PiKe said:
What happens if you're playing a game and get really angry, telling the AI or whatever to **** off, then the Xbox goes off? That would be really frustrating

but there are no games for kinect so your be fine

biron_w · 24 Aug 2010 at 17:22

Kinect is gonna fail bad I suspect.

antijoke · 24 Aug 2010 at 17:24

Well I've just placed my order for Kinect and all the launch day titles. So excited.

ic1male · 24 Aug 2010 at 17:51

PiKe said:
What happens if you're playing a game and get really angry, telling the AI or whatever to **** off, then the Xbox goes off? That would be really frustrating

What about giving it the finger and it switches off? LMAO.

Oh wait. It can't recognise fingers any more can it? :rolleyes:

msmalls74 · 24 Aug 2010 at 20:31

I still want a film to have the words Xbox stop or xbox pause in a film, that be quite funny

PhillyDee · 24 Aug 2010 at 20:32

If Apple made Kinect, this is how they would do it

Tonyator · 24 Aug 2010 at 23:47

anticonscience said:
Well I've just placed my order for Kinect and all the launch day titles. So excited.

My preorder is in too, although not for the games just yet.

Alpherah · 25 Aug 2010 at 10:32

Its only Dashboard voice control which is gone, titles programmed to use voice control will still work as intended.
Media in omitting important pieces of information to bash MS shocker!

Sanchez · 25 Aug 2010 at 12:27

DAvE18 said:
I hope this flops so badly.

Why? Are you against games that people enjoy?