| SvennoJ said: Can you see into the future? It took quite a while for home video gaming to become big after Pong. Heck for some anacdotal evidence, my aunt got a magnavox odyssey in 1979. (I guess the successor) It was this magic new thing, yet me and my sister though it was quite boring, nothing like the pinball machine my grandfather had in his attic. It took until nes and c64 to get into video games. |
So VR in arcades do not count? Those were a thing in the early to mid 90s. Do not even get me started on the Virtual Boy lol. There really never were any video games before Pong that had any type of a chance. With all of this said I think the Pong analogy that someone made is deeply flawed as Atari/Nintendo were creating a brand new audience where VR headsets have the massive advantage of an already established base and a much easier time of advertising to that base
Also I never claimed to be able to see into the future. I said I do not THINK that VR will ever be anything other than a niche which so far is being supported pretty well. Now what the future holds exactly none of us know but acting like it is anything but a niche at this point is absurd
