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Next up: Molyneux thinks the command prompt is a joke.

"...it feels more and more like a joke. My son and I sit there typing random things in it, and it doesn’t work."



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PenguinZ said:

My son and I sit there saying random things at it, and it doesn’t work.

 

What are those random things he and his son are saying?

I believe he may be refering to the xbox commands as "random things". If on the other hand they really said "random things", then well that's the reason for commands not working.



Lafiel said:
PenguinZ said:

My son and I sit there saying random things at it, and it doesn’t work.

 

What are those random things he and his son are saying?

I believe he may be refering to the xbox commands as "random things". If on the other hand they really said "random things", then well that's the reason for commands not working.

He's probably saying things like "Xbox, Play Godus"

And Xbox is like "No"



In this day and age, with the Internet, ignorance is a choice! And they're still choosing Ignorance! - Dr. Filthy Frank

If the man is British, wouldnt he have an accent? wouldnt that mess with voice commands to some extent. Thats teh one thing that was weird for me with the voice command thing. So much tounges and dialects, whose were they basing it on? Hell even in the states people sound different from one another. Lot of variety even here.



I think Molyneux is being harsh. Kinect is a really interesting piece of hardware with a lot of potential. Microsoft and third parties just need to invest in it. I feel the same way about Kinect as I do about the WiiU GamePad and Vita's rear touchpad: I'm fine with it as long as people make games that leverage it. You were brave enough to create the technology, now be brave enough to use it.



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PenguinZ said:

My son and I sit there saying random things at it, and it doesn’t work.

 

What are those random things he and his son are saying?

I'm sure he is talking about the Xbox commands.



ethomaz said:
PenguinZ said:

My son and I sit there saying random things at it, and it doesn’t work.

 

What are those random things he and his son are saying?

I'm sure he is talking about the Xbox commands.


You never know... It is Molyneux after all. 



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Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

He's probably saying things like "Xbox, Play Godus"

And Xbox is like "No"

more like "Xbox, rate Godus 5 stars"

"I'm sorry Peter. I'm afraid I can't do that."



I want to believe that Kinect can create awesome and fun games but honestly seeing the games made for it so far it's really hard to justify the extra cost.



babuks said:
Do Lumia phones and Kinect use same speech recognition algorithm? Lumia sucks so hard so I can understand if Kinect does the same.


Dunno about the similarity between them as I don't own an XB1 but I use my Lumia's voice functionality to respond to text messages while driving through my bluetooth and it works pretty well. I don't usually have to repeat myself.