No Kinect voice control at launch

Demon · 25 Aug 2010 at 12:47

LOLz..
Go and read it again..
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-08-24-no-kinect-voice-control-at-launch

It's been confirmed that voice control is in..

Seems the fail-bandwagon has failed..

PiKe · 2 Sep 2010 at 12:21

Voice control isn't in again.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...-voice-recognition-disabled-until-spring-2011

Demon · 2 Sep 2010 at 12:25

PiKe said:
Voice control isn't in again.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...-voice-recognition-disabled-until-spring-2011

ARTICLE said:
The company confirmed rumours that the voice-recognition software will only accept American English, British English, Japanese and Mexican Spanish at launch this November

So in for most of us, out for the rest of Europe by Spring 2011..

Not ideal, but then it at least is coming shortly after, and they are catering for their largest markets, regionalisation is a PITA, but an inevitability, especially on something so complex where region has such a big impact on the technology.

Maybe they should do the standard practise of releasing in supported regions only, and rolling it out to other regions after full region support has been added..

PiKe · 2 Sep 2010 at 12:35

Very silly that you can't speak English to it in an unsupported region though.

ic1male · 2 Sep 2010 at 12:43

PiKe said:
Very silly that you can't speak English to it in an unsupported region though.

Yeah, the Dutch can speak English better than the Scousers.

DBT85 · 2 Sep 2010 at 20:36

Regardless of the problems it has it'll sell because Microsoft will advertise it heavily. It may not sell well outside of the US but I expect it to do well there at least.

Kitejumper · 3 Sep 2010 at 13:26

Just made my preorder for this. Looking good. Naturally this for the kids, as who wants to play Forza without a wheel or pad ? . At least Forza 4 you can be handfree or use the wheel ! I think that this will be a great piece of family fun kit. Voice activation is going to be very handy. The chap in game told me ( after i had finished the preorder ) that its likley that unless you actually get your order in the units may not be walk in and purchase one till after Xmas. So stop dithering and move with the times. Who knows, ill lete you all know when it lands!

Cheers
KJ

Edz · 3 Sep 2010 at 16:20

Kitejumper said:
Just made my preorder for this. Looking good. Naturally this for the kids, as who wants to play Forza without a wheel or pad ? . At least Forza 4 you can be handfree or use the wheel ! I think that this will be a great piece of family fun kit. Voice activation is going to be very handy. The chap in game told me ( after i had finished the preorder ) that its likley that unless you actually get your order in the units may not be walk in and purchase one till after Xmas. So stop dithering and move with the times. Who knows, ill lete you all know when it lands!

Cheers
KJ

Sure it's not just Forza 3 Kinect, i.e. same game just limited version (i.e. Kinect only)?