Kinect's Voice Recognition Limited at Launch

[LawlessSquirrel]

Seems Microsoft saw the limited appeal, and figured hey, why don't we make it MORE limited? You know, make it one of those hard-to-get things where people want it just because they can't have it?

Sure they say now that they'll keep adding support, but that's the same claim they made about backwards compatibility. But here I am with a large stack of unplayable games (or in Panzer Dragoon Orta's case, playable for 2 levels).

Slightly distracted there, but the past is relevant in estimating the future. (Note: I have a slight grudge against Microsoft for taking all my money without warning me, then suspending my account when I couldn't pay any more. Possible bias on my part.)

Then again, maybe I'm just holding the 'leaders of the industry' to too high standards. Anyway, off to Steam I go!

 

[Snotnarok]

This is gonna be the 32X of the 360, though I do like the 32X, it has Knuckles Chatoix! :U

 

[Nouw]

Goddamnit! Oh well, it's not like I'm going to buy it any time soon.

 

[Kriptonite]

You know, back when this thing was still Project Natal, my cousin explained it to me. It sounded super cool! As I continue to learn more and more about this, I continue to grow more disappointed. (Ready for the hate? I am.) *sigh* I guess Microsoft should just stick to making Operating Systems and keep away from the gaming community...

 

[Outright Villainy]

I love the Powerglove. It's so bad

The controller or the band?

He was making a reference to the Wizard. Lucas had the powerglove and it was bad.
[small]So bad.[/small]

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

why the hell would they disable it? are they gonna suddenly make gamers in other regions pay extra to use it when its ready? hmmm well that does kinda sounds like ms

They would neve- Oh wait...

 

[Thunderhorse31]

So wait, there are people outside of North America, the UK, and Japan?

When did this happen?

 

[BucketCake]

The answer is simply to just not buy it until the voice support is released. That way you can see what sort of games are coming out for it and also maybe pick it up cheaper.

 

[Dungus]

This doesn't make any sense. I'd understand if they just had a smaller amount of available languages at launch, but to restrict regions is just awful. Microsoft is just saying; we'll get around to it, in the meantime we just don't want you to have the full experience because some users wouldn't be able to enjoy it.

Screw that, I can speak English, gimme my voice recognition.

 

[valentingalea]

How do you pause a game in the middle of the action without voice commands?

 

[The Almighty Grigard]

This is a really stupid move. If i were to get a Kinect, I most certainly want all it's features available from the start.

I don't care if I have to speak English because I and everyone else in Sweden knows English. I most certainly don't want to speak Swedish to my Kinect after all these years of English in games, Swedish just sounds stupid in games to me.

Not that I would buy even if it featured every single language and farted diamonds.

 

[SirCannonFodder]

why the hell would they disable it? are they gonna suddenly make gamers in other regions pay extra to use it when its ready? hmmm well that does kinda sounds like ms

Maybe because it has trouble with the other accents, and they don't want the public perception of it to be damaged?

 

[tlozoot]

Anyone else get the feeling that, in 10 years, Kinect will feature on one of those Gamespot "10 worst console add-on" lists?

 

[Jared]

Dosnt surprise me - They are releasing it rapidly, and functions arent all there yet...typical MS

 

[Femaref]

You mean like it's limited in all other categories it's supposed to be good in? Yeah, I can see where this is coming from.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

(there are people planning on getting that thing right?)

I doubt it.
I know I'm not, and all my friends who've got 360's aren't planning on getting it either.
Most casual gamers would already have a Wii anyway.
Kinect may just be screwed...

 

[Svenparty]

Why don't we ditch the whole motion control fad, eh guys? If people really wanted to exercise while playing a game, they'd get off their arses and play tennis. Can't we just focus on the games?!

I foresee a world where people find the ideas of controllers stupid and everyone is washing virtual windows and other eyetoy bullshizzle

If I wanted motion gaming I'd dust off my Wii

 

[JaymesFogarty]

Why don't we ditch the whole motion control fad, eh guys? If people really wanted to exercise while playing a game, they'd get off their arses and play tennis. Can't we just focus on the games?!

We can't just ditch it, as long as it makes the companies money, it will continue to be used.

In that case, we should not buy it, and simply ignore it. The quicker we stop buying this bullshit, the quicker we can start focussing once again on the games.

 

[Worgen]

why the hell would they disable it? are they gonna suddenly make gamers in other regions pay extra to use it when its ready? hmmm well that does kinda sounds like ms

Maybe because it has trouble with the other accents, and they don't want the public perception of it to be damaged?

nah, really just saying that it doesnt support so and so language would be fine but to totally disable such a thing, even for those in said country that might speak other languages is just stupid and weird

 

[Lim3]

F*** you microsoft. We always get treated as a separate lower class market here in Australia. You take forever to bring some games here and you price gouge our market making us pay around 35% more for games then you do in America.