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Sure, Microsoft

I totally believe you

Also congrats on making up 3+ months of ground on your development schedule against Sony out of nowhere



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pezus said:
TheSting said:
pezus said:
"This was simply a software issue in terms of getting local language and voice support in the dash. It's pretty straightforward, but disappointing I know for people who are missing launch."

Uhm, this was never an issue before.


Yeah I think it was. Kinect didn't launch globally because of it iirc

It launched in Iceland, where there has never been any support from MS. Most people in the delayed country can speak pretty good English, so why not just let them have it and then update with more voice support later on? Such a small issue shouldn't cause a delay of several months to a year.


Kinect 1.0 also didn't work on the entire console. Now it does.



endimion said:
Saeko said:

Sorry but just lie :p

Switzerland official language : French, Italian, German, and this get released in France, Germanie, italia, don't see how to explain this but just some fantasy excuse.

you do realize voice recognition doesn't work just by the words you say but how you say them....

But it works for French Canadians? It works for people from New England/Texas/Hawaii/Southern swampland states?

Switzerland was killed likely for the same reason as with PS3 distribution: PS3s mainly come from a Rotterdam distribution centre. I'm pretty sure XBoxes come from there, too. If Netherland/Benelux got nixed, no distribution from there, hence nothing going to Switzerland. (And the price is $180 more expensive so sales would have been horrible, anyways, compared tp PS4).



There probably is some truth to this, but it's not the reason to delay. Microsoft could easily pay a little extra to get the translations done on time if everything else was good for launch.



Saeko said:
endimion said:
Saeko said:

Sorry but just lie :p

Switzerland official language : French, Italian, German, and this get released in France, Germanie, italia, don't see how to explain this but just some fantasy excuse.

 

you do realize voice recognition doesn't work just by the words you say but how you say them.... I don't know about the Swiss German accent or Swiss Italian.... but if it is anything like the Swiss French accent it is probably not complete lies.... I mean sure some people could easily use it in any of those language but the overall QoS would be terrible for the thicker accent some might have and they probably don't want to release until it is tweaked so it works fine even with the thickest accents

Yeah yeah, when i talk on TS3 with french friend they not understand me at all and vice versa, and this not take month and month for some tiny accent because, south france french and north france french would not be same french and go on..........

yeah which means they might have worked out the French canadians different accents the French French different accents.... and so on.... they might lie too.... but the concept of kinect software not being ready for every countries even the one with the same language is not completely out there.... it is very complexe to have every subtle variation being implemented properly.... you and me being able to understand each other even with differfent accents doesn't make it any more easier for the machine to compute... they litteraly have no clue what you are actually saying they just compare data input to their library and a slight variation could mess it up or just make a perfectly understandable word to the human hear of a same language speaker completely unrecognisable to the hardware....



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anyway I'd be MS I would also opt to release a polished product instead of half assed one I will patch on the go... we all know the hellfire they would get if they did....



Yeah because MS is alright with people buying PS4 instead, yeah...like hell they would delay launch on any country for such nonsense.



The hell? It's not like they're dealing with new tech anymore, how hard can it be?