| curl-6 said: No, it's not. If it died out in 2009 you'd have point, but it didn't. Fads only last a couple of years. With VR becoming a thing again, (something that was also declared a "dead fad" years ago) motion has a potentially huge future ahead of it. |
And yet, the reality is people will just end up using VR with standard game controllers.
The thing about VR is when it first emerged, it had neither the power or the resolution to be believable, and the unit price was sky high, as these technical limitations are lifted we get a resurgance, motion control has no major stumbling block stopping it from being successful, it just isnt successful anymore, because it was a fad - people got excited for this new and exciting way of playing games, and a few years later were bored of it.
As for dying out in 2009, the only reason this particular fad lasted a few years longer is because i was tied to a games console, and the initial surge in popularity eventually encouraged other people to try it, prolonging the fad, while some were new to the console and motion controls, others were already done with it and, in the case of most kids, wee simply using it to get their bi-yearly fix of tv/movie spinoff games and Lego titles.
It's nice that you feel that motion control isnt a fad, but it simply was.
