When MS revealed a few weeks ago that the Xbox One will launch in less countries some people had theories on why this would be the case. Some theories included problems with manufacturing and MS stated that it would be down to localization of the OS and Kinect voice commands.
Now it was revealed that Kinect Voice Commands will be supported in the US and UK for English, Canada and France for French and Germany for German. The console will still launch in Spain, Italy, Mexico and Brazil this year while Scandinavian countries have been removed from the 2013 launch window as well as Russia and Switzerland.
Now the odd thing is that in Switzerland there are 3 official languages, French, Italian and German, and in the Scandinavian countries most people speak very well English because TV shows and movies are often only subtitled. More people in the Scandinavian countries speak English than in Spain or Italy and the average quality is better compared to those countries plus most games are not localized to Swedish, Dutch, Finnish or Norwegian in the first place.
Despite the reasons given by MS for the delay those reasons don`t appear true given the recent announcement of what languages Kinect will support at launch, because in that case it should be also delayed in Spain, Mexico, Italy and Brazil since Kinect will not support the languages for those countries at launch.
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Saw this coming since the first nerf to the meta. Anyone that had any sense and wasn't a fan boy knew this was gona happen. Knee jerk reaction nerfs to the meta made the game boring.
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Microsoft is really caught with their pants down here.
There's no way that Kinect commands are the reason; they've proven that they don't actually care about launching with voice commands.
There's no way that OS localization is the issue; again, they've proven that they don't care about missing features, so it's down to minor technical details and text.
I'm sure their "delay" in localization was manufactured and is just a legal loophole to avoiding telling investors that they're screwing up royally at keeping up with demand without lying.