| kitler53 said:
time yes, and they've had 8 years already.. if MS has to make provider specific deals then that opens the question,. will support ever come? will the non-NA tv providers what to make a deal with xbox or will they fight them? ..there ought to be certain very universal librarys for voice commands: 'channel up', 'channel down', ect. and honestly, if MS isn't letting me do my own mapping for "xbox play ESPN" than they are approaching the whole thing wrong. i will not be able to easy pick up hundered or thousands of voice commands that MS chooses. MS should just let me choose the command ala setting up radio pre-sets and have a very small, simple library of universal commands. ..otherwise it is just too complex and user-unfriendly.
and i'll repeat - if you can't support your main selling point at launch your product isn't ready. it would be like sony saying ps4 only supports games in NA at launch because they haven't figured out the PAL region. |
Whether they're preset commands or customized by the user, you need to understand that mapping a name to a channel may not be an out-of-the-box feature of cable boxes, and will require special integration between the xbox and the provider's api.
What time it takes is like the time it took for the PS3 to do many of the things it ended up doing after many firmware upgrades. This isn't a showstopper just something they want to deploy over time and they didn't have time for that prior to launch so they are doing it incrementally I don't see the issue.
