simply put nope... patching ain't an option in that case.....

for longer answer check above....

ok bye haters see you soon on an other thread

It will be easy to check the reason... if the console gets sold out with low numbers then there are supply issues and not localizations... a WW release is difficult for any company.

Sony will have 15 days to ship the units for the EU launch and it is not all the EU.

I'm not sure why you think this is about haters, but you know when the Kinect rolled out across Europe some countries like Ireland only got the motion control part of it first, the firmware we got for the 360 had zero voice recognition to begin with, that only came around 6months later in a firmware update. Most people here didn't care as long as they were able to buy the product on day one along with everyone else and the voice recog patch was a nice bonus later on.

Yeah I kinda figured you were speaking about accent,, not language. The thing is, if it can barely recognize an accent, what about another language.

If you look at the most recognize synthetic voice software in the world (vocaloid 3), it's perfect in japanese, it's becoming good in korean and it sucks in english.

After almost ten years, and Kinect is only 3 years old.

Well, of course it's not the same, it's recognition vs creation, but still, there is a world between making it work for one language, and then for tens of them.

Sounds impossible to me.

Albert Penello:

Wow. My grip on truthfulness was that tenuous?

Perhaps, it could be taken at face value that we are telling the truth. I haven’t been up here posting spin or BS. I’ve been pushing hard to be transparent in how we talk about what’s going on with the platform. And I’m clear when I can’t comment on things.

Yet, somehow since this truth doesn’t jibe with the popular belief online, we are being dishonest. I get that we’ve had a rough few months, but at some point I’d like to think we get the benefit of the doubt, at least on things that make sense logically. You know, Occam’s Razor and such.

Here’s truth:

There never has been any sort of yield or performance issues with our GPU/ESRAM/KINECT/ETC. It’s simply not true, and I’ve heard the rumors online so often I actually went to the silicon engineers to ask them again. Our HW program (knock-on-wood) has been on schedule and again, we’ve had the opportunity to increase performance even later in the program. You don’t have yield issues then upgrade the clock speed by 6%. Again, simple logic here.

Second, if we were having yield issues – why did our country delay not include markets like the US, Canada, or UK? Those represent the vast majority of our volumes. Anyone can look at GFK Chart-Track and see the volumes in the regions that slipped. Here’s an assignment for the GAF Detectives: go look at historical sell-thru rates of consoles by region, then tell me what percentage of global consoles sales were represented by those affected markets. (hint: it’s a small percentage). Each and every region is important to us, don’t get me wrong, but anyone can look at those numbers and deduce it has nothing to do with volume.

I’m going to state it again, just like I said here and to OXM: The delay was localization related. Besides needing local language support, we also need to prop-up local Live, Apps, a Marketplace, and a variety of other services. We bundle that together as “localization” in messaging, but there is more to shipping in a region then text and voice translation. The offset to that, like we’ve said, X1 is region free and while that’s slightly more inconvenient, it will still allow people in the local countries to enjoy launch. Again, not something we’d be promoting if we were having issues with volume.

I’m certainly not going to change everyone’s mind, I get that. And I know there is tendency to believe there are many more diabolical things going on behind the scenes. In this case, we are being fully transparent. And FYI – we passed FCC certification back in early summer, before PS4.

Lastly – anything that was shown on a box, was shown on near-final retail HW. Our Dev Kits and Retail Units are the same.

Albert “spoonful of sugar” Penello

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=78575701&postcount=181

ethomaz I'm pretty sure a Portuguese Kinect would have problems recognizing a lot of Brazilian Portuguese words. And that would require some extra work.

Brasil is tier 1... no delay here.

ethomaz I'm pretty sure a Portuguese Kinect would have problems recognizing a lot of Brazilian Portuguese words. And that would require some extra work.

Microsoft will obviously prioritize markets where it thinks it has better/more business impact.

The same could be said for english , take england regional differences are quite pronounced.

Again... Brasil is tier 1... no delay... if the Kinect yet heve problems with Brasilian Portugues then this news is a big lier because they delayed in the others places because the localization has to be perfect... so the tie 1 contries can't have problems with voice recognition.

Or you agree with the news or you agree that localization is not the problem.