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Xbox Only Gamers:

Aren't Interested in VR 99 26.90%
 
Will Probably Buy a PS4 (price permitting) 149 40.49%
 
Will Probably Buy a Rift or Vive for PC 40 10.87%
 
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Raze on 28 February 2016
JRPGfan said:
Raze said:

The only winner for VR becoming a hit is home invasion. People can break into your house entirely undetected, rob your stuff and jet all while you are locked in, visually and audibly. =)

So can they if your wearing head phones... or if your asleep... or if you go on holidays.... so I guess you should never do any of those things just to be safe.

Also you have it backwards, the issue isnt the technology, its the people that break into houses.

But good scare tactic by you.

Dont use VR or you ll get robbed.

Nah headphones you still have your vision, sleep you still have your hearing. On vacation, you'll have your house alarmed if you have security set up. Basically the point is, you lose all congitive reception of the world around you without distraction, and that's not necessarilly a good thing.



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Raze on 28 February 2016
GribbleGrunger said:
Raze said:

The only winner for VR becoming a hit is home invasion. People can break into your house entirely undetected, rob your stuff and jet all while you are locked in, visually and audibly. =)

Can you imagine what would happen if you were on holiday, at work or asleep?! None of those things offer burglers anywhere near the opportunity that VR does. VR is a burglers dream and at 2 - 3 in the morning, when burglers tend to work, there are going to be millions of people playing VR. All the burgler has to do is find out who bought VR, check in through the window to see if you're using it and then check to see if anyone else is in the house. This isn't going to end well.

Yeah when you're not awake or away, you arm your security system. When you're functioning about the house, you don't. The thought of disabling your ability of sight and sound to your environment is a bad idea.



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Mr Puggsly on 28 February 2016

VR wont appeal to everyone especially at the high price and modest support.

Will Sony invest proper VR support for all its games? Sony dropped Move support quickly while claiming it did well.



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Mr Puggsly said:
VR wont appeal to everyone especially at the high price and modest support.

Will Sony invest proper VR support for all its games? Sony dropped Move support quickly while claiming it did well.

To be frank VR is very different from Move. 

PSMove was shipped in limited quantity aswell so it is somewhat misleading. But PSMove can still make it. VR and games like Dreams might boost it.



CosmicSex on 28 February 2016
KungKras said:

VR will not become a hit.

But even if it did become one, it might accelerate the Xbox downward spiral a bit. Won't be that important either way.

Are you suggesting that a downward spiral is nothing to be concerned about. 



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Chazore on 28 February 2016
Mr Puggsly said:
VR wont appeal to everyone especially at the high price and modest support.

Will Sony invest proper VR support for all its games? Sony dropped Move support quickly while claiming it did well.

Add to that the recent abandonment of PS Vita TV in Japan (their home territory).

http://www.destructoid.com/playstation-vita-tv-discontinued-in-japan-345180.phtml



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CosmicSex on 28 February 2016
Chazore said:
Mr Puggsly said:
VR wont appeal to everyone especially at the high price and modest support.

Will Sony invest proper VR support for all its games? Sony dropped Move support quickly while claiming it did well.

Add to that the recent abandonment of PS Vita TV in Japan (their home territory).

http://www.destructoid.com/playstation-vita-tv-discontinued-in-japan-345180.phtml

What does PS Vita TV have to do with VR.  Did Sony abandon the Vita or just the poorly selling set top box.  

Oh its pointless.  Anyway, why don't you think that VR will be successful?  I keep hearing about price but I can't comment until PSVR is priced and we see what we are looking at.  The PS4 is many times cheaper than a VR ready PC, so that can't be the issue.  Or maybe you think that since PSVR will be cheaper that it will hinder the other headsets?  

Or maybe you tried VR and didn't like it?



Swordmasterman on 28 February 2016
Chazore said:
Mr Puggsly said:
VR wont appeal to everyone especially at the high price and modest support.

Will Sony invest proper VR support for all its games? Sony dropped Move support quickly while claiming it did well.

Add to that the recent abandonment of PS Vita TV in Japan (their home territory).

http://www.destructoid.com/playstation-vita-tv-discontinued-in-japan-345180.phtml

They just abandoned something that was selling nearly Xbox One levels on Japan, the VITA TV, is even worse than the PSP Go, in Sales, Playstation Vita, still selling and still geting support, even from Microsoft.



Chazore on 28 February 2016
CosmicSex said:

What does PS Vita TV have to do with VR.  Did Sony abandon the Vita or just the poorly selling set top box.  

Oh its pointless.  Anyway, why don't you think that VR will be successful?  I keep hearing about price but I can't comment until PSVR is priced and we see what we are looking at.  The PS4 is many times cheaper than a VR ready PC, so that can't be the issue.  Or maybe you think that since PSVR will be cheaper that it will hinder the other headsets?  

Or maybe you tried VR and didn't like it?

So what's your main beef out of what I said?. You sound like beef is to be had because of me pointing out that Sony drops their products on a whim when it;s not doing PS4 level sales.

Why do I think it won't be successful?, I never said it will never be. I just don't see the time being right now and only on PS4 like some here are already claiming just by seeing prices of two VR devices they were never once going to invest in. VR on PC isn't just going to be for gaming though and that's what a few here seem to forget. It doesn't matter that it;s not doing made up gangbuster numbers (because this site loves to set the bar high from the get-go), what matters is where it's going to be used and how far it comes during the years. From my pov, I;m not even remotely interested in sales numbers, I'm far more interested in seeing how far it can go in a decade or two's time and seeing other apllications and fields for VR to be used in other than gaming.

The whole "it's cheaper=objectively better" really needs to stop ebcause it's entirely subjective. At the end of the day as there are markets that buy cheap little gizmos and cheap frills and then there are markets that buy premium products and premium joys, there is no single market that dominates everything and that is something that has to be accepted.



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AsGryffynn on 28 February 2016
JRPGfan said:
ABizzel1 said:
I think they're going with NVIDIA next go-round since they got burned on the AMD deal by being forced to go with either lower hardware, or much more expensive since Sony nabbed the prime candidate 7970m / R9 M290.

Microsoft got the chip they wanted, for the price they where willing to go at.

The reason the Xbox One isnt more powerfull is because of how expensive kinect made the machine when it launched, so MS went with a cheap chip, to lower the overall price of the consoles production.

Thats not getting burned by AMD, thats bad design choices by MS themselves.

 

You know who keeps burning people in hardware deals? Nvidia. I seriously doubt MS goes nvidia next gen.

I think they want x86 for next console, and a APU again, so they can have true backwards compatability with their Xbox One, on the new Xbox Two.

May the Kinect never rear it's ugly face ever again... that said, I hate AMD stuff, so I'd try and ask Intel to create a new Skylake for their next console...