More details on Mass Effect 3's Kinect usage

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Rainbird said:

dahuman said:

uh, and I'm saying that it's not as hard as you are thinking, it's not like there are not open source libaries out there that they can look at, the coding gap is much closer these days, and remember that the game has been delayed by many months too, they could easily put some more Kinect features in and add voice support for all versions and add patches later, it's 2011.

Look, I don't know what's going on inside BioWare. I'm just making the observation, that apparently they don't want to spend time and ressources on this feature outside of Kinect. I'm not looking at how easy or hard it is, I'm just observing that they don't want to put the extra effort it requires into the other versions.

Assuming it is extra effort, and not just MS 'asking them nicely' to only use the feature on Kinect, and not every other mic, which, as several have said, would likely be almost no harder. At the very least, if using MS software, MS could allow the game to use any mics on their platform, but that isn't happening either. Seems very fishy to me. Sure, I may not see much use for the feature, but as this thread shows, others do, and most won't be able to use voice commands as they don't have a Kinect. Looks like a kick in the balls to normal 360 owners who love ME to me.