Xbox One Voice Commands Will Not Work For Everyone At Launch

As some of you guys have heard, Microsoft’s Xbox One will be delayed for some markets, and one of the reasons of the delay is because Microsoft is still working on getting local language and voice support for those regions. Based on this we would have assumed that for the markets the Xbox One will be launched in, voice support should not be an issue, or is it? According to some fine print on Microsoft’s Xbox One website, it actually reads, “Xbox voice commands will not be available in all markets on the product release date. Voice commands will be available at launch in US, UK, CA, FR, and DE.”

Based on that fine print, it would seem that five out of the 13 markets the console will be launched in will be getting voice support, meaning that those in the remaining 8 markets such as Australia, Austria, Brazil, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, and Spain are flat out of luck. While Microsoft has yet to respond to this fine print, a NeoGAF forum post by Microsoft’s Albert Penello revealed that not all voice features will be supported by some of the markets the console will be launched in, and that the Xbox One marketing team is currently working on a chart that will hopefully explain it all. We’ll keep an eye out for that chart, but in the meantime for those living in the other 8 markets, perhaps this is something worth thinking about.

Tyler Lee
Categories: Gaming
Tags: Microsoft, Xbox One