Is the day of unique consoles mostly over?

[Soundwave]

Pemalite said:

Soundwave said:

VR as I said is the undiscovered country, that's where innovation will happen, traditional screen consoles (any size) are kind of going to be in a rut of simply just getting prettier graphics of the same thing, which would be a bigger deal if graphics of now weren't already quite nice and able to create basically any kind of game play scenario with beautiful visuals. It just depends on the art team you have. 

I think VR in general has stalled... Just like 3D did, this year has seen some significant sales decline... PSVR2 has definitely done a belly flop.

And whilst the technology has potential, it will probably never have the mainstream appeal of say... Console or mobile gaming.

VR has a lot longer of a run way to go because what it's trying to do is so much more ambitious than standard video games. 

VR is in effect trying to basically completely alter ones entire reality and envelop their sensations to create a new world, basically. To viably do that it's going to probably take another decade or two to get it to where it needs to be. I think it's still in its infancy compared to what it will become. 

VR is trying to go to the moon, standard games are like trying to travel cross country. 

People are more finnicky about putting things on their face, so the technology is going to need more breakthroughs to be feasible (getting smaller, cheaper, while the processing end simultaneously improves), but if I'm looking at gaming technology in the big, big picture, absolutely yes I think VR is where experiences have room to grow. 

Even on Quest 3 with "PS3-tier graphics" people are blown away by that new Batman game. VR if it gets to its potential will alter reality and entertainment entirely, I don't even know if calling it "video games" will suffice any more. 

Whereas modern gaming, alright in 20 years you have photorealism, ok, so what? A game from 20 years ago like Resident Evil 4 still plays about as good as anything today. Whereas you look at the difference between games 20 years prior to that, so you'd be looking at games from 1984/1985 vs 2004/2005 ... the difference is monumental, you're going from Super Mario Bros. 1 (lol) to Resident Evil 4. 

If I have people over today and I want to show them the most "whoa, amazing" thing in video games I show them the Quest 3, not PS5, because PS5 isn't really going to do anything that blows people away. It's not to say it's not a product without appeal, but to get that "first time I played Mario 64!" type wow, the closest thing that can do it today and I find really surprise people is VR. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 25 November 2024