Predictions: Switch VR be the most sucessful VR device, metroid prime 4 will be a launch killer app, 2020.

[Jumpin]

SvennoJ said:

Jumpin said:

Metroid, a franchise with decades of proof as having limited appeal somehow being a killer app? Doubtful.
Nintendo getting back into VR, currently a red water market, competing with the existing companies over what has already been proven to be a very small market niche with declining size?

I don't see either happening. This is incredibly unlikely.

Nintendo and Apple aren't successful because they can magically make things popular, they're successful because they find and establish themselves in blue ocean environments. VR is not a blue ocean market, it's a small and shrinking red lake.

Where did you get the idea it's shrinking? VR/AR is underperforming sure, but it's still a growing market. China might become the driving force in mainstream VR adoption, yet mostly cell phone based. The market for $500 to $800 peripherals was always going to be small. Cell phone solutions launched prematurely yet with inside out tracking looking promising it shouldn't take too long before cellphones can handle full VR.

Anyway I'm looking at a rift+rouch add right at the top of this page, $550 now. Prices will come down, gen 2 devices will improve on everything, cheap standalone devices are coming next year, cell phone solutions are getting positional tracking. It's a bit early to declare it dead. It took 2 gens to get 3D games to work properly on consoles, PSVR hasn't even been out for a year...

Just published:
https://uploadvr.com/europes-vr-sector-grown-nearly-487-companies/
Still growing.

Your source doesn't say anything about market growth.

But there's no where near as much enthusiasm or interest in VR as there was just last year. I'd say clearance by 2019.

Also, if it is somehow big in China, it doesn't really effect the rest of the world. Canned air is popular in China, I don't think that speaks anything about how it's going to do on the Western European market. Let alone a product that's only hypothetically popular in China.

http://theknow.roosterteeth.com/episode/the-know-game-news-season-1-vr-is-d-e-a-d