Vawn said: They never meant it. Voice commands at a system wide level are stupid.



Did you know PS4 has those same voice commands and it's had them since day one? Click to expand...

CrisPy2019 said: Does anyone use that on Xbox one? Is it useful?

I never had a Kinect or micro connected to my XBO.



Alexa appereantly also works on xbox? Click to expand...

The fact that most people don't know the PS4 had that feature explains why MS wanted kinect to be required with all consoles, otherwise it would just be a niche feature from the only fact that it's optional.It was actually quite useful when it was system-wide and you could trigger any on-screen command through voice ("if you can click on it, you can say it too"). With time they removed many kinect features and in the end only pre-baked commands like starting a game, turning the console on-off or switching channels remain. Still convenient but not as much.And Alexa isn't really embedded in the console, but you can use an Alexa device to control the console (so they say anyway, never got to try it)Also regarding the original post, that's just another bullshit patent as far as innovation is concerned : embedded microphones for voice commands have been a thing for years, can't believe the stuff Sony lawyers can get through....