For Canada, the voice controls were probably delayed because of Quebec and possibly Newfoundland. It's still quite ridiculous to region-lock the voice controls for all of Canada though. Wouldn't a better approach be to have voice controls unlocked in all regions and simply say 'This is the current list of languages supported. More will be added in Spring 2011'?

It's always Quebec's fault!

5 bucks says there is a hack or a guide within a week on how to have your Kinect work in English, Japanese, MExican or USA-ish...lol

We can't even use English? What's with that?

Why? Just don't buy it until it's ready.

Pretty obvious MS wanted to launch Kinect as soon as possible which was always going to be when English and at most a few other languagues were supported.

It sucks obviously if you're outside their catchment initially, but is anyone really epecting MS to give Sony's Move a complete holiday season to launch in all to itself and delay Kinect until early 2011 to ensure full languague support?

If MS did that they'd be giving Sony a huge advantage regarding each companies attempt to compete more directly with the Wii - which is why they aren't doing it.

Wait why not us Canadians?

All we say different is the letter "Z". The could add a patch for Quebec in the Spring.

First Spain and now Canada?

I just wonder why can't people record their own voice commands on kinect and assign it to specific actions on the console.

Nintendo did that with a game called nintendogs, it works with every language in the world. It even works if you fart.

It's more than just Spain and Canada that are excluded...it's pretty much every country will not have voice control this fall. Only US, Mexico, UK, and Japan that will have voice control support this fall.

I don't understand why they didn't use this method either. Don't most voice commands for cell phones work this way, by you speaking a few words when setting it up to calibrate the system?