VR Gaming and the change of opinions.

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snyps said:
I'm actually very surprised by the high price tags but I'm absolutely sold, even having not tried it yet. I'm a mostly non sony gamer (I tried to like PS3.) and I am ready to put away my Wii U and start playing in their world. That's just how I feel tonight because I want to try it. I want to believe that Last Guardian and Zero Horizon are good games.

I own a pc so it's arguably smarter for me to buy a Valve headset since it's the price of PS4/PSVR combined. Either way I go it's $800. I'll have to see which one I like the best when they are on display. PS4 is a little more powerful than my pc. While pc has the best library of games.

Last note. I don't believe opinions have changed as you suggest in the title. People didn't want kinect and they still don't.

I hate to tell you, but the PC VR headsets need a PC considerably more powerful than a PS4 to use them. So you are up for $800 for the PS4 VR set up, but you are up for a lot more than that to be able to operate on the PC side. Though if you are plannig to get a better gaming PC then you can write that down as an already locked in expense. However, if you take the OP's view of the world and thing, well it's $800 either way, it would seem that PS4+VR and a stock standard gaming PC will give you the best combination of large games library and VR.

As to the OP, I'm not sure which opinions he's thinking have changed. Kinect was being criticised as spyware because it had an always online, always plugged in requirement, as originally conceived. The PS Eye, which has been around for ages and has a pretty decent sales record up to now has never been an always on always plugged in thing, and it still isn't. And the last time people talked about Kinect in terms of spyware was in 2013, before MS did the 180 on all things dodgy. People now mostly just see Kinect as irrelevant, since it's got basically no game support. So the question really is whether people think VR will have long term game support.

Hopefully Sony, Facebook, HTC and others see that the way to success is to make it easy for games to operate across all systems and not try dominate and force all others out of the game.  The best way for VR to succeed as an entertainment platform is for the install base to be as big as possible with as little fragmentation as possible. So that means multiplatform titles. I hope, for instance that SOny only has timed exclusivity on Battlefront VR. It should come to PC VR eventually.

I like the concept of the technology and see that it can do a lot to enhance the gaming experience. But I just don;t see how I can justify the price of entry for myself.