Phil Spencer - Virtual Reality Not Yet 'A Thing'

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method114 said:

sales2099 said:

sabvre42 said:
And this supports my decision to never buy an Xbox One, and to sell my 360.

Well aren't you a impressionable young man?

Sounds like you made up your mind a long time ago and someone just saying what is actually fact, that VR isn't mainstream yet, influencing your decisions on what gaming console you play, is silly at best.

Honestly I don't understand why he would even make that statement it just sounds silly. It's not a "now" thing. Of course it's not people are in the process of working on games/headsets as we speak but it will be a thing very soon. I j ust don't see why he would make it seem like MS doesn't care about VR or isn't interested in it. That's only going to drive people away. He should be saying things like "MS is very interested in VR and we have a team working on it now". No one is going to stay away from the X1 because they are looking into VR like every single other gaming company in the world.

They will stay away from the X1 if they get the impression that MS doesn't care about it or has no intentions of getting into it. Which his statement sort of gives that attitude. 

He didn't say that at all. He said VR isn't mainstream today. That doesn't mean they have no R&D working on their own version. They actually announced VR plans with Windows 10 to be rolled out in a few years.

People just believe what they want to believe, when all he said was that you don't see the kids begging their parents to buy them a VR headset like they ask them to buy COD ;)