Language issues? Did all the original 21 countries already have good voice recognition support?

Yeah, almost all of my friends that own a gaming systems owns a 360 here in Sweden. I am curious to what MS is trying to do. It's like their resources has been cut to hell. I wonder if it's a language barrier.

i wonder why they are doing this. production issues maybe?

Well...We didn't want it anyway!

Tier 3 or 4... maybe holiday 2014

true wasnt really trying to defend the decision or anything just making sure i had it right lol

This news pretty much confirmed that.

"Our priority is ensuring our customers get the best Xbox One experience the first day it is available. To do that, and in order to meet demand, we have adjusted the number of markets that will receive Xbox One in November to 13 markets"


?

So to give the best X1 experience, some countries will nog get it?

I can't see the logic in their statement.
They say: Releasing 100 X1's in Germany is giving a better X1 experience than releasing 50 in Germany, 25 in Denmark and 25 in Sweden.


I think this action is pure fail.

It can't be language, just look at Brazil and Portugal. One gets it and the other does not. In the earlier thread I talked about the Netherlands and Belgium and still found it funny how people said that it was false however we got confirmation this morning from microsoft employees.

In another e-mail which major retailers received this was also stated. Microsoft was actually surprised that Sony already started production and acknowledge how well they planned everything and Microsoft has not even passed FCC yet. Microsoft has also still heat issues and can't provide enough working systems. 2014 has always been the releasedate for the Xbox One but Microsoft did not want to loose territory. But that is to late now.