Accusations of the NSA listening in on all your electronic devices and tiptoeing through every facet of your life have been flying around since the advent of the cellphone. With the discovery of the NSA’s PRISM, stateside paranoia has run rampant once again – unfortunately coinciding with Microsoft’s announcement regarding the new Xbox One’s always-on capabilities.
Who knows who could be listening?
Well, if launch days have anything to show for it, regardless of the fear and loathing that was bandied about during E3 and the subsequent preorder race, the Xbox One gamely kept apace of the PlayStation 4. And while the PlayStation 4 is smashing sales records in Europe, the Xbox One has still managed to find its way into no small number of homes.
This, of course, means just enough time has passed for new users to experiment a little with their new toys. And the results are… well, a little funny, actually.
Let’s talk voice commands.
In order to access voice control on the Xbox One, you say “Xbox.” Easy peasy. To access the voice control on the PlayStation 4, you say “PlayStation.” Simple enough, right?
But not exactly a lot of fun!
In the course of playing with their PlayStation 4, Kotaku found that the Sony box actually responds to some pretty casual language with regards to voice control. That means that you can say “A.C. Four” or “Assassin’s Creed,” or even “Ass Creed Four,” and the PlayStation will still take you to the same game. (All right, so maybe Kotaku didn’t try that last one… but other PlayStation 4 users have!)
They’ve found out some other pretty interesting stuff too:
Top Tip: The PlayStation camera’s voice commands can be instigated by saying “Babe Station”. If you fancy it.
— colossalblue (@colossalblue) December 3, 2013
Furthermore, you can refer to your Xbox One as the “Sex Box,” and it’ll start up and ask you what you’d like. Who knew talking dirty could be so easy?
Bet you won’t ever think of your consoles the same way ever again.
