| RavenXtra said: Better left for a Switch 2 honestly. A 720p screen is just not gonna cut it. By that time, the price of VR will have probably gone down as well. |
For it to be successful in the mass market, 720p is more than fine. Most people have never tried VR, and when the cheapest premium dedicated device is $400 with mostly tech-demo games, that's not going to change anytime soon. The mass market doesn't have standards for VR, yet. If Nintendo can get a product out for cheap, which they can because most of the necessary components already come with the Switch at the benefit of being wireless, Nintendo can dominate VR, no matter how inferior it is.
People went crazy over the Wii even though it was still in SD with ugly games. Why? Because it was cheap enough to be a novelty. The Switch can do the same exact thing. They can realistically release an HMD that's around $100 because the most expensive components are already on the Switch, with the added bonus of already having motion controllers. No premium VR headset out today can compete with a $100 headset. Maybe the PS VR will be $300 by the time something like this came out if we're being generous. It can't compete, especially if the software output is a "tech demo-y" as it has been, outside of games like Resi7.
People won't care about a screen door effect because the illusion is still there. The original Oculus dev kit was 720p, and it blew people away. What Nintendo can do for VR that no one else will right now is make VR accessible (via price) and give it killer apps (via software). Sony isn't putting big money into VR software. Valve isn't. Maybe Facebook is, but they don't own mass market established IP. Nintendo can. They can and would be the one's to make a Pilot Wings, Metroid, Star Fox, F-Zero, Mario Kart, etc onto Switch VR with heavy VR implementation because that's literally their specialty - making games for unique hardware.
Yeah the experience is objectively worse, but for $100, you can play Pilot Wings in VR, with Metroid VR here at launch, VR patched into Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and F-Zero coming to Switch VR next month, with Star Fox VR the month after and so forth. That's what Nintendo can do that no one else is willing, or in some cases even able, to do.
