eva01beserk said:
Yes A $400 addition sold 5m, more than all competitors combined(Not sure if this changed). The issue with kinect was that it was a new way to play games that replaced traditional gaming. When the novelty whore off, like wii motion controls, gamers abandoned it. VR is not a new way of playing but an enhancenment of traditional gaming. Like better sound, rumble and whatever else. It immerses you deeper into the game while still playing the same way. You can take off the VR and still play the same game on the TV. Reason VR haasent taken off yet is the high price of entry. Im pretty sure there are plenty of people waiting for it to be more accesible. Also pretty sure Sony will invest more into it as on this gen the games released where really underwhelming. Only one that comes to mind that was good was resident evil. On the PC side valve just went all out with half life and I hear it good. But boy is its price hurts to just look at. |
Have you even played VR? Because VR is definitely not an enhancement of traditional gaming, it's a new gaming experience. Just like Kinect was at it's time. Traditional games don't work well with VR and the technology requires a different approach in terms of game design in order to make such experience enjoyable. I do agree though, that VR has way more potential and I think it is here to stay as a niche.
Cerebralbore101 said:
I have a ton of replies to make on this thread, but I just wanted to say that: Any blunders made by either MS or Sony would have been telegraphed at this point in the next gen news cycle. Some company doing a massive 11th hour screwup at this point would be unprecedented. Even Sega's huge blunder of surprise launching the Saturn at $100 more than PS1 was known by May 13th 1995. |
Why do you keep bringing up May as a certain point in next gen build up which should telegraph if any blunders are going to happen or not. First of all, 7 years ago Xbox One was in the similar state as PS5 currently is, complete mystery, up until May 21, 2013. If you like to use a certain as such point, we still haven't passed May 21, 2020. But, it actually doesn't matter May, June or July, what matters is that on May 21, 2013 Microsoft showed Xbox One and shared their vision for 8th gen console for the first time. That's what actually matters. Sony still hasn't done this for PS5, so saying that screwup is impossible just because it's May already and Sony still hasn't shit it's bed is completely incorrect. They still can, but it can happen in June or July.
