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potato_hamster on 05 March 2018
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John2290 said:
potato_hamster said:

Well they might have shipped 2.5 million, but it's doubtful they actually sold through 500K at this point considering how its sold in previous winters.


VR as a concept is fine. And it isn't doing badly.... for the niche product with limited appeal that it is. But the tech obviously isn't close to having mass appeal. The current products actually aren't revolutionary to gaming. They aren't being bought in higher than niche quantities, and sales haven't picked up dramatically despite the price being cut in half during peak sales periods.

If it hurts your feelings to have people laugh at your deluded optimism about VR, maybe stop giving them a reason to laugh.

"The virtual reality craze continues to make its way into the mainstream with fans spending more than £100m on headsets for the first time, a 23.5% year-on-year rise. " from UK games sales hit record £5bn thanks to Nintendo Switch and VR | Games | The Guardian

I can't be arsed looking for it but I've also seen news of similar increases in growth in other regions but from the articles that popped up for me while trying to find them the analysts are still predicting great things across all VR. 

Also, I have no deluded optimism. How the fuck is having fun with a technology that is in my hands right now deluded optimism, I couldn't give a fiddlers fuck if it takes off or not, I see two more years of great things and that would be enough, god forbid, to buy my PSVR and ps4 each thrice over if something happened to them. As I've said before, knowing what this technology is now, I'd pay 3 thousand (Future proof PC VR pricing) easy for PSVR on a standard PS4. The only reason I want it to succeed (Not know it will) is because it'll benefit VR as a whole with bigger budget games etc, etc.

You are the deluded one if you think I could be arsed worrying about someones opinion when they proclaim current VR to be the same as 90s VR and doomed to fail.

Ohh I'm sorry, did you think that any comment I made about VR or VR fans was directed at you or something? When I say "you" in the previous comment, I'm obviously referring to VR hardcores, not you specifically. You know, people like the person I replied to initially in this thread which lead to your personal attack.

Please go ahead and point out where I proclaimed that current VR was the same as 90's VR? Ohh right. it didn't happen. What I did say was that there were hardcore VR fans of the 90's that were saying the same ridiculous phrases like "it's revolutionary!" or "it's a gamechanger" or "anyone who really tries it won't be able to go back to playing non-VR games" or any of the other totally nonsensical phrases you've heard ad-nauseum from the VR hardcores. But hey, why actually read the comments of naysayers when you can just make shit up?

And for someone "who couldn't be arsed about someones's opinion" you spend an awful lot of time asking me to stop sharing it.