I think he nailed it in the review, I DONT WANT TO BE TALKING TO MY TV ALL THE TIME! YOU NEED A REALLY BIG NEW EXCLUSIVE TO SELL THIS THING MICROSOFT
Not so FAST...... This writer misses the point completely with voice commands and it could all be done w/ a universal remote control anyway. But..... alas voice command is something people will have to learn and get used to. Just like using an original controller for games. It takes getting used to using one or you won't be able to do as much Joe Gamer, who's been using game controllers since he was born on lots of different systems. A first timer sitting down to play against him is going to get creamed and may never play the games again.
And that's exactly why as a reviewer of a pre-launch device, you should never set it up for failure under your novice/experience terms at using a new control mechanism. That may not be quite ready for prime time like this anyway. This is the kind of review people don't need to read to understand that this writer actually hated it from the moment he heard the name even or the company or is going by preconceived ideas about it before he even sat down to try it out. He then promptly went to work to nitpick it to death in order to Pre-Destroy it's chance at success, like so many pro Apple or Sony products, he's really wanting to promote.
Luckily though we have this thing called public reviews coming, after buying a new device and putting it to use. If they find really good things or simply ways to fix things, that this writer is out to destroy it for. That's why launch devices today are always Betas for a long time anyway. Even Apple's iOS, phones and tablets have always been betas and are still working out bugs as well. Nothing in software especially should ever be completely ready or perfect until the system's dead gone and buried.
Because as life changes so does the code that makes up software. All bugs are never found, all the best features are never ready out of box and are just there waiting to be discovered by accident. There will be glitches, errors and what not and some players/users will actually learn to take advantage of them and hate it when they're fixed and gone. Game Consoles are a peculiar beast in this regard, because you have many classes/range of players/users just like in life. A particular class of players are the ones who discover new ways to use Kinect or invent the next Game Shark or Genie to take back control. AND that's what got Sony into the gaming console business out of the blue in the first place. It was PS1's faults and attempts to do things for us we didn't want done, that we were able to overcome. That's when using the system's bugs, glitches and slow connections to one's best advantage took off and we all became home brew fix junkies. We loved it when a big company wasn't perfect and we bought them anyway, because we could make them better ourselves.
People didn't love games/consoles because they were perfect out of the box, but because they were imperfect. So they could change them and invent workarounds themselves. The old spin a disk with the lid open to get a PS1 copy game disk to play, became an art form. Everyone had their own technique and if the system would have been perfect the people who bought them couldn't make them do what they wanted to do in the first place.
So there are reasons why there is NO PERFECT ANYTHING ON THIS PLANET..... even ourselves!!! ....if there was, time/life would be boring there'd be nothing of interest going on in life and we'd be like the people in 1984 with NO MINDS OF OUR OWN!!!!
Instead we'd be like guys with stepford wives, we only thought we wanted one. Because some reviewer somewhere was paid to tell us how perfect it was or because little Jonny or Sue age 2 was cooing and awing at daddy writer's every move on this new Sony console. AND that's why we have our own minds better prepared to listen to facts NOT colored by an author's builtin prejudicial experience with a new device. Especially when a writer exhibits clear signs his mind is fixed on killing a product, before it even gets a chance to be used by the customers it's intended to be used by!!! ;-) .....us the public. Use your own best judgement in making a decision on what to buy or not. Don't let this author or any writer online make your DECISIONS FOR YOU BEFORE YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO USE THE DEVICE YOURSELF!!!