oh boy i would call that presentation is more of PR comedy rather then PR stunt

Consumers aren't gonna buy such expensive devices and there is no evidence which proves it will be succesful. Sure DK2 did well, but that could be because devs think it could be the next big thing. 

If they're buying $400 consoles then I don't see why they wouldn't buy $200-$300 headsets. 

There is a lot of nonsense in such a small post. Sony and MS both have taken ideas from each other. Sony has also flatout copied ideas from Nintendo as well.

Sony has a history of, "hey we have this too."

The Morpheus is just a response to the Oculus Rift, lets not pretend Sony was the first company that made the push to VR.

One of the biggest problems with today's media and gamers is that Now factor.  Usually a partnership develops over time as each company look to enhance their offerings and merge technologies together.  In the games hits industry, it seems people only focus on the now, not looking at the complete picture and only focus on the small presentations.  It's evident that MS has bigger plans for VR and their supporting APIs and windows to support the platform not just for game but for other industries and entertaiment in general.  Probably within the next few years we will see a lot of support going both ways as Facebook/OR and MS work on their technologies to make VR viable.

I never said a word about innovation. The gist of my point was when Sony does something Microsoft isnt far behind with a response. If I was running Microsoft I would've ignored Morpheus until it yeilded results (which I doubt it will on a large scale). MS has the hololens and even the boss admitted it was too far ahead of its time, but lets just partner with oculus because...you know. 

Where there is action there is always a reaction.

Here's a question, why does it matter?

I agree, MS is getting involved with Oculus because they feel they should have a response to the Morpheus AND the industry is a little hyped about VR tech.

As I pointed out in my last Sony has taken many ideas themselves in reponse to what their competitors. Do we really need to bitch about who's the true innovator?

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That point was raised when I was talking about it at work... why waste all that time and development on the "Perfect" controller for VR, and then bundle in an XBO controller, it made no sense at all. 

Just because Sony turned down the tech in Kinect doesn't mean that tech was bad, it means that Sony did not have the skills to bring it to market.  If you only look at Kinect as just a game device then you totally miss the point that the device has proven to be great tech for multiple industries.  This can be an issue with most gamers where they focus so much on this console war thing they forget that these compaines operate in mutlple different industries.

MS has stated that they are not totally sold on VR and it's evident with Hololens they were going down a totally different technology road then what VR is doing.  The tech in Hololens is far above what is going on with Morp, Vive and even OR since Hololens is a wireless PC while the other techs must depend on either a PC or console to do their work.

When all is said and done, it's probably not in the interest for MS to build just another VR device since there is already a solid device in OR, instead they will continue to define their AR experience which is totally different and can lead to more impressive sales since their device at this moment is the front runner in that space.