| bananaking21 said: honestly the whole xbox - oculus partner ship seems like nothing but a big PR move. to get people talking about xbox one and oculus, as if there was anything substantial in the announcement or things they showed. it seems like an announcement to graner reactions like this from news sites, or this from the consumers.
at the end of the day, it seems as its just nothing but a stunt to get some headlines assossiating VR with the xbox one, to likely hide the fact that the Xbox One will most likely never get VR in its life time, and the Playstation 4 will get it next year. a poor attempt to get on the VR hype bandwagon because they have nothing to show, while Sony is going in full force.
im not talking about the controller/oculus partnership, thats more of a logical business decision. im talking about the streaming nonesense they showed. and yes i know they said this is just the start of the partnership, but that also helps my point, more PR and nothing to back it off. |
I agree with you 100%. It's so obvious and anyone with a pair of eyes can see it.
On the most basic level it's not logistically even close to viable. So I have to have a $1,000+ pc, a $400-500 Oculus (guess at the price), and a X-1 ($300-350). This means only a tiny narrow market of people will have all three and actually ever use this feature. A feature which has questionable value in the first place.
But this kind of strategy has been being used in the industry for a long time and is smart for Microsoft as a business (Sony uses the same straegy by the way). In this case it seem pretty clear this announcement is less about providing something of value to consumers and more about taking away value from the competitors products. It's the same model that leads to timed exclusive deals, a large amount of PR/Marketing statments, and me too products like the Move (which was clearly designed to piggyback on-disrupt the wii market for example).
Dirty business!
