PS4 and ONE. The wisdom of 33 countries versus 13.

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Burek said:

binary solo said:

Chile = dialectic variation perhaps?

Belgium = Dutch, the richest bit of Belgium and the majority language by a considerable margin, can you imagine the gall of being told to use your Kinect in German of French for a Dutch-speaking Belgian?

Switzerland = dialectic variants of the 3 main languages maybe + Romansh(?)

Kinect was an excuse not to release.

I mean, out of 13 Tier 1 countries, voice recognition worked in only 10. By MS's own admission, it didn't work in Ireland, New Zealand and Austria, yet it didn't bump those countries to T2.

"“Voice commands are currently available in 10 of the 13 original launch markets including: US, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, Canada, Mexico and Brazil,” Microsoft told Game Informer. “We’re working hard to bring voice functionality to additional markets, but have no other details to share at this time.”   

"Of those ten countries, only five (United States, UK, France, Germany, and Canada) have access to what Microsoft calls "premium/natural voice" and the "Xbox On" command. "

http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/04/xbox-one-kinect-missing-voice-commands-five-months-after-launch

NZ, Ireland and Austria are no-brainers even without Kinect voice functionality. In the case of NZ and Ireland there is no language localisation necessary, for either Kinect or for in-game VA / subtitles, manuals etc. It's all English, so to not release in those countries would be just stupid. And Austria, likewise is monolingual German, and right next door to Germany so it would also be idiotic for it not to be Tier 1.

There is no way NZ is actually a tier 1 country in terms of sales and revenue. Though we probably have a better per-capita gaming market than many tier 2s. We just get to play with the big boys because we speak the same lingo. Because there is no language barrier for the native Xbox language, and we're next to to a legit Tier 1 country (Aussie), which also speaks English, we get to coat tail on this sort of stuff.