I wouldnt call it a success just yet, we'll just wait and see when its released and how long its actually support. Kinect and Move werent supported very long,so we'll see how long VR actually is

Not the recent ones. However, it doesn't make the direction they're moving towards any less wrong. 

Still it's hard to argue DVD and BD playback it didn't help the sales of the respective PS2 and PS3 especially for PS3 blu ray was a big deal in it's early years. I still hink the Wii should have at least supported 576p, but it did shorten it's life span by not being a high def console. As someone who owned both a PS3 and a Wii the difference between R&C TOD and Galaxy where already big and my god those on rails aphelion battleslooked so good on my plasma screen. A company musn't just look at the situation at launch for all specs (for some they need to), but looking ahead is key and Sony is trying to do this with VR, as they co-invented blu ray which two consoles use (Nintendo prefered a similar technology because Nintendo).

Some things fail like the Vita, but VR is looking good for this moment.

Threats to prove a point, really...

Anyhow you might think it isn't a lot of people think it is and I think many here will agree with me when I say that with the right software a truely immersive experience is possible with these headsets, especially if you add move to PS Move to Morpheus. That mag game for instance ad move with that game and I think it is a great experience and deserves the therm VR, games aren't meant to be real because otherwise you would need an environment suit and electrodes all over your body a game needs to be a game and VR (headsets) can improve the experience by greater immersion. 

Blu ray was so expensive when the PS3 was released that the PS3 was actually the cheapest blu ray player.  It made no sense to buy a regular player considering they were 900-1000+ (plus some of those early blu ray players didn't have internet capabilities and when blu ray went through some updates it left those early adapters screwed).  Sony had PS3 at 500-600 I believe but were taking huge losses on it.  PS3 was a great system but it hurt Sony for the first few years pretty bad.  It later was able to make some money (not sure if they got all the money back) but even though its going to end up selling 87 million or so it didn't help Sony's financial books as much as the Wii helped Nintendo.  Nintendo bet wrong on an idea that had them more focused on the gamepad for the Wii U than helping the overall specs of the system.  So Nintendo lost a lot of the Wii profit money on the Wii U and now are trying to squeeze as much money out of it as possible in order to try and recover the losses before moving to their next system. 

When VR gets to the level of Sword Art Online (if it ever does), then we can talk about VR. Right now I consider the current VR like I do the Kinect... A novelty that I'll have fun with for a short period of time before I go back to my standard way of gaming.

Being condescending isn't something I'll tolerate. It wasn't a threat either nor was it to prove a point. 

VR is meant to be real, hence reality in the name. It's a pointless gimmick like 3D otherwise. 

the direction isn't "wrong", it's an inevitable first step towards what you are dreaming off

we actually know hardly anything about the brain, so creating the VR world in your brain and interacting with it with your own thoughts is far off, but the research towards that will only get really heated once the screen-VR is a big market and shows it's limitations

Clearly I'm talking to an entitled child. Go cry some more lol

Warned - Leadified

I'm not dreaming of anything as the way they're going about it won't work. As you said, brain research is next to none, we know more about the universe than the brain at the present and so proper VR is far from existing. The hype for VR won't be what catapults research in neurology though, it'll be smaller individual things in medicine. I wouldn't expect any sudden revelation in gaming to occur in VR until at least the 2030s. 

Anyway, lets agree to disagree if you do.