PSVR’s Secret Weapon, The Aim Controller, Has A Release Date

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KBG29 said:

How you come to these conclusions I don't know. I have never said that traditional gaming needs to die. All I am saying is I hope in 10 years studios like Naughty Dog, Bungie, Rockstar North, Polyphony Digital, and such are only making VR games. Just like right now they only make 3D games, and have left 2d side scrollers and top down stuff to indies and smaller studios. I don't see the point of the industry leading developers dragging their feet in old tech, when a massivly better option is available. I do believe and hope in 50 years from now we are still getting 2D and 3D games, and I would expect them to be multiple times better thn the stuff we are getting right now. However, I expect that to come from indies and low to mid tier developers.

On the old PC vs Console side, it's the same. I don't think PC should die, but I think people should make smarter choices about the use and purchases of devices. I think PC is essential to enthusiasts, science, business, and medicine. Where I think PC needs to move out is in the low end market. We don't need people using cheap, over priced and under powered HP, or Dell, or Lenovo type of PCs. We would benefit greatly, from the mass market using more standardized hardware, like XBO and PS4, to ease development of web and hardware based programs. 

Last note. VR is way, way, way, way beyond an entertainment device. VR is going to allow doctors to practice medicine at a much higher level as the tech becomes perfected. VR is going to allow mechanics to learn in a virtul world, instead of wasting resources during training. VR is going to allow engineers to design much more detail into everything. VR is going to allow artists to do thing far beyond what we have ever seen. There is nothing that VR can no do. VRs ability to trasport us places, will make it of the greatest learing and teaching tool for many years to come. And yes, on top of all of that, it will be the best entertainment platform we can experience for a long, long time.

I was talking about traditional 3D gaming. The way you keep wording it makes it seem like it's done and dusted and needs to "die" (plenty of words to describe doing away with something, death is the most common way to describe something being done away with). VR isn't the future for everything. Just look around you, look at all the sorts and huge varieties of tech we've come across over the decades, hardly the majority of tech has conformed to a singular route, where everything needs to go through a single channel, instead we've had them going through multiple ones for years.

See you already see 3D gaming as old hat, a dinosaur if you will, one that needs to be put away or out back and focus on only VR (because your focus is on VR leaving nothing else outside of "traditional" 3D gaming). I don't see why you would expect indie's to take up what most devs do these days in general, because your focus is on the "big" fancy tech first, so if you don't care as much for 3D gaming now as you do for VR, then chances are very, very high that you won't give out much for 3D gaming 20 years from now, because VR will be your apparent "mainstay".

 

"On the old PC vs Console side, it's the same. I don't think PC should die, but I think people should make smarter choices about the use and purchases of devices"

I don't see why people should have to conform to your ideal "purchase" decisions. The way you currently operate has you refusing to touch a desktop, to a point where you force yourself to use your consoles to take care of your "office" needs. The basic computer/laptops are still largely being used to this day and they aren't going to vanish overnight either. They are still a perfectly valid choice for people out there to roll with.

The low end you speak of are pre-built machines, those are also changing over time as well with online and physical stores these days offering to build the PC the way you want. Eventually the new Ryzen CPU's will be put in place with some pre-built machines with the likes of HP and Dell taking part in using said CPU's in their machines. There will always be a low spec machine out there, because there are people out there who don't have the money like you do to afford high end tech, even then high end tech becomes dated within some months to a few years.

 

What we do not need are consoles, designed purely for gaming, to take the role of "office work", that's your ideal that you currently take upon, not everyone else. We have desktops and laptops for that, even some tablets as well. The consoles do not need to become the all in one that we already have with PC's and laptops.

 

You know what trumps VR?, the Holodeck. That will be the end result after VR has run it's course.