News From Gamepolitics:

According to the BBC the DS game Brain Training (known as Brain Age here in the states) is clearly discriminating against certain U.K. Accents. In what is probably one of the most ridiculous reports I have heard of in a long time, the BBC program ‘Watchdog‘, devoted 5 minutes to this segment.

In a quote from the original article one complaint says, “I don’t know what’s wrong with the way I say ‘blue’. I can say it as many different ways that I could try and it just really wouldn’t pick it up.”

So let me get this straight. A Nintendo DS and a $20 dollar piece of software is discriminating against you? Maybe you didn’t know about some of the limitations of speech recognition software on something with the limitations of the DS. It will have it’s flaws.

This must also explain why they have to wait so long for games over there.

Remember when must Windows Vista discriminated against an American accent? Vista Oops

Read full article here: DS Discrimination