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BeElite on 19 March 2014
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JayWood2010 said:

I agree, gamers are the whiniest people. However the phone market doesnt work the same way.  As i mentoned in another thread, peripherals need something to push them.  Just like all the other peripherals that have come with little success in the past at a much cheaper price.  The two things that i could compare this to right now is either Kinect or 3D.  Kinect was successful with 25m sold, but that was something you could advrtise as a mainstream product.  3D is the other one which is more in line with VR but at a higher cost.  3D has become a failure for home and has really only showed its relevance in 3DS and Theaters.  
 
THen you have peripherals like Wheels that are niche products.  Only the hardcore racing fans get them due to the high price.  

This is where the problem is, peripherals dont usually see high success because third parties which are the leading software in the industry does not support them because they dont profit from them.  And this is talking about peripherals that dont cost 100's of dollars.  There will be a few people who buys VR headsets at $300, as i said its a good price for the tech, but it will not be appealing to most people as devs will have to prove it being worth the already high price  "for games".  This would make a $400 console into a $700 console.  You can buy a wiiU for the same price.  A vita, 3DS for lower.  

Not to mention how you advertise this.  It is the same with 3D, its hard to advertise something that people can not see without being there in person

Ill be on sony to prove the concept and show people its worth it, wont be overly hard gived their capability.  Flower Journey in Vr and Gran Turimso some Fps Evercrack whatever, could do the trick easly nuff.  Id wager medica molecule is involved in making a vr game, out of all wws they seem the right type for this. 

Ads might be far of, they need to do with Vr as they did with PS4.  Overwhelming posativity world of mouth spreading.  SonysVr has the beenfit of being on the domminant console, if they can spread the PS4 love to the Vr ill be a compelling push for early adopters.  PS4 and Vr sounds way more promesing to me then owning a PS4 and Wiiu. 

What ever sony does, vr is being pushed on PC either way.  They will greatly benefit from this.