haxxiy said:
Cheap appeal to ridicule. Not to mention technologies are adopted on basis of cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis. Besides, you forgot to quote DVD prices dropped an order of magnitude three years later, and the market of home video entertainment often is more wealthy than one primarily focused on teen and young adult gamers. Also, the cost of entry is higher than $599 given the required CPU/GPU hardware. Even PC harware matching the PS4/XOne is ultra high-end taking into account every PC used for gaming out there... not to mention hardware equal or above a GTX 970. A meager 13 million PCs worldwide according to Nvidia. Now imagine the percentage of users who actually care about VR, and among them, those who would bay $599 for a VR device. So far VR seems nothing but a market-alienating premise. Edit: lol @ the shameful display of Palmer Luckey on Twitter trying to justify its pricing and international taxes. That's why you hire a decent PR, dude... |
More words, but just as shallow and riddled with cluelessness as the preceding posts.
VR in whole is not focused primarily on gaming. It covers, resp. it will cover every sector of entertainment (and beyond) and extend it. So you better update your data.
Initial prices of BluRay player were also in the vicinity of 1000$. And how many households had a TV making the purchase of a BR player worthwhile? How much did they cost back then? And what do you say to that?
Ooooh. That massmarket miss.
"Besides, you forgot to quote DVD prices dropped an order of magnitude three years later"
Lol, you're a big nonsense talker. So we are in the third year after the first commercially available VR HMD was released? May you name the particular product you have in mind. It seems you forgot to mention the name. Additionally i'd like to see further prove that three years later prices for hardware (GPU, CPU, DDR, SSD, HMD) won't drop to a "affordable" level. Yes, now the entry price is very high, because high end today is the minimum.
Hunting Season is done...
