Xbox One Launch Delays Not Caused By Supply Shortage, Microsoft Says

[Rack]

Hmm. While I can't imagine there being supply shortages of the XBone I similarly can't see them having ever put any effort into making Kinect work as opposed to marketing it.

 

[Griffolion]

word for word.

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Otherwise, I agree. XB1 is by no means bad now that the crap has been taken off it. But MS just seem to be utterly clueless.

 

[Erttheking]

Yeah, not selling the consoles in all of those countries is a bit of a flaw isn't it? I mean, I'm not sure how big the gaming communities are in those countries, but I imagine it would be possible for you to get one or two million sales out of each. If you put all of them together, thats 8-16 million sales you just handed to Sony on a silver platter. Maybe even more!

Seriously, is the Kinetic really fucking worth it?

 

[-Dragmire-]

...the problem is localization."

"In regions like Switzerland where people speak German and French, they can get a German or French console," he explained. "It'll work fine."

Even if the Swiss speak very distinct dialects (they do) you're releasing in Germany and France (And I assume Italy, but I'm not 100% certain) so what's your excuse? Surely in your localization for Germany you have enough combined phonetic data that the program can handle a little Swiss German without being totally confused.

I recall some kind of an announcement that the kinect would be far less accident prone when it came to understanding when a person is giving a verbal command and when people are just talking within the kinect's earshot. I imagine localization becomes very important if they want to prove that kinect 2.0 is a quality piece of equipment. If the console comes out and entire countries are having kinect audio response problems... Well, I don't think Microsoft wants to be known as the most expensive console due to a mandatory([sub][sub]As in all X1s being sold come with it[/sub][/sub]) peripheral that doesn't even work. My theory is that they believe the bad publicity of poor localization affecting the consoles core functions is worse than not releasing the console in those areas until they are confident it will work as advertised.

Not to say that won't happen anyway, but Microsoft will want as little truth to that accusation as possible.

 

[RicoADF]

You know what. I don't think anyone thought it was due to shortages. I mean be honest. Did any reading this thought it must be due to demands?

What makes this more funny, besides the fact this guy seems to think not selling out of stock is a good thing, where as this has only 13 countries to sell to it's still not sold out, yet PS4 at 33 markets has sold out just about everywhere and Sony cannot keep up with demand. Kinda says something about which system has started this generation at full steam and will get the most and best games in the long run.

 

[Strazdas]

Its not a supply shortage due to demand, its supply shortage due to their failing processor prototype.
As for localization, fuck localization. if i ever were to get one the first thing i would do is set it to english so it would not confuse my lithuanian as commands. and i would never want to speak to computer in anything else but english anyway. all the "localized" games i always set to english. and that damn youtube keeps resetting its localization. no i dont want your localization you stupid.