VR is not a gimmick!

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John2290 said:

Medisti said:

That's another flawed bit of logic. Steering wheel controllers aren't sold with consoles or with racing games. If you had to buy a gun-shaped controller to play an FPS (or if it was even a viable option), that would be a gimmick as well.

But, again, why is VR being a gimmick a bad thing? A gimmick is a selling point. Just because gamers have chosen to vilify it because of the "motion control gimmick" doesn't mean it's actually bad. VR's selling point, its gimmick, is its immersive quality. That's what sets it apart from other variants of the medium. Without its gimmick, VR is just an HD 3DS in a box you put against your face. 

Vr being labeled a gimmick is just wrong, I sense it is being labeled by people who haven't tried VR or at an early and perhaps limited capacity. I feel I need to call this out. The steering wheel industry is massive and far from resting on a gimmick, people but steering wheels the same reason they but dual analouge controllers to play three D games, it works better than any method. I hate using this quote but one Racing dev said this "You wouldn't use a keyboard to drive your car IRL?" As much as you may think Duel analouge is a good input method, it simply is not for racing titles. The steering wheel provides gameplay aspects you can not achive with any other tech, regardless of how many people buy them. I think you don't understand the word gimmick or have a twisted view from the last few years, perhaps.

If by your standards everything added to mobile phones in the last decade is a gimmick yet you most likely use them daily if not weekly. Most of them you use without realizing. Is 4g a gimmick to sell phones? Is a high rez camera a gimmick or would you rather use a seperate phone, camera and laptop.

Also, VR is not just a 3D box you slap on your face. I provides gameplay possibilities and aspects far beyond what the duel shock and 3d gaming has, may I ask have you tried a good decent or high end VR? With a variety of game genres? 

I fully agree on racing wheels. There's an entire industry with many major players that do nothing but make steering wheel, shifters, pedals and chairs for this niche market. They're not a gimmick in the sense that a skilled player with a steering wheel will absolutely wipe the floor with a skilled player using a controller (all other things equal) because their inputs can consistently be far more precise, and they can easily turn dials on their wheels mid-race for things that would have controller users diving through menus.  It's simply no contest. For someone who spends as much time as he does playing racing games, I really should have a wheel.

But let's be clear. Racing wheels are niche. Always have been. Always will be.

For what it's worth, I also agree that VR is not a gimmick. I just don't think they're going to get much more popular than racing wheels.