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NATO on 16 February 2017
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spemanig said:
NATO said:

It's a 720p screen roughly the same size as the 800p screen used in the first Rift DK1, the quality of games on the rift DK1 no matter how powerful your pc, was terrible because the screen door effect present from the low resolution screen was absolutely shocking.

And many, many, many more.

That's fair, but I don't think that's an issue with the quality of price you're getting for the price. 800p with nothing but a few tech demo games for $350 (the price of DK1) plus the price of extra motion controllers is much weaker of a value proposition than 720p with a bunch of premium, quality, exclusive games for only $100.

I'm not saying the Switch won't be worse. I'm saying it won't matter because it'll be good enough.

Yeah but you're missing  the point entirely, the DK1 was a terrible, terrible device, and just intended as an early prototype, the DK2 had a significantly better screen but was still fairly poor, only the final commercial release got things right by increasing the resolution even further.

The switch has a resolution BELOW the first ever rift prototype, which, as I can say from owning one, is an experience that I am frankly surprised didn't put people off of VR for good, it was THAT bad.

And the other thing is, headsets like Rift, vive and PSVR have the display in a sealed unit, no dust or crap gets on the screens which ruins the immersion, a switch screen would already be fairly poor because of the resolution, add to that smudges and fingerprints on the display itself and it gets worse.