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Normchacho on 18 March 2016
Chazore said:

So that kinda proves that PCVR is basically dead as a dodo because numbers>everything. 

I've seen you complain about people saying PCVR is going to do badly way more than I've actually seen people say PCVR is going to do badly...what gives?



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Chazore on 18 March 2016
mornelithe said:

Initially PCVR will be niche (to be honest, I think it'll all be niche initially), due to the costs associated with it.  However, if the cheaper solutions take off, giving HTC and Facebook time to drop the costs on their hardware (as prices also drop on PC hardware), I don't see why they cannot achieve success.  It just won't happen immediately.  I think Yoshida's right though, it's good to have all these VR options coming out around the same time.  The more people w/ the devices, the more advertising for the product will occur (simply by being in someone's house, they'll show their friends/family and so on).

As this article states, and as many have said, part of the challenge of VR is showing the consumer why it's needed.   And trying to convey that experience via words isn't easy.  Way better to get them out on the market, and let word of mouth/in-home use do your advertising.

I don't doubt price drops and the like, but I'm being told here by some that if PSVR gets adopted then that's it entirely for PCVR int erms of support, devs, games etc, I'm not dooming PCVR because I'm not entirely interested in VR for another few years but I'm just repeating what some on here and other sites seem to think.



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Chazore on 18 March 2016
Normchacho said:

I've seen you complain about people saying PCVR is going to do badly way more than I've actually seen people say PCVR is going to do badly...what gives?

I can't point out what others are saying now?, like not only on here but around the web?.



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The Fury on 18 March 2016
Augen said:
I really want to try it out and see what the games offer.

Ditto, this is my main issue I guess. I have to try something like this before I fully understand it. And I'm not willing to pay £350 to 'try' something.



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Rogerioandrade on 18 March 2016

It does seems fun, as it was with the old big arcade VR games I saw in amusement parks in the 90´s.
But, as a consumer, I´m not really interested or impressed with it right now. Maybe when it gets cheaper, I´ll buy one.



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method114 on 18 March 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
the-pi-guy said:

Why don't you like VR? 

Many reasons. A few examples;

I hate wearing things on my head. Don't even like wearing headphones so I'm certainly not going to like some heavy vr device.
I like buttons. Ok, you can probably still use a regular controller with vr but you wouldn't be able to see the buttons you were pressing.
I like to multitask. It's rare that I just play a game, usually I'll be doing other stuff at the same time, can't do that if I have a vr device on my head and can only see the game.
I'm not keen on FPS. I can't really see vr devices being good for anything other than FPS games and while I don't really dislike FPS games I much prefer other types of games.

Everything you said makes sense except for the buttons things. Do you seriosuly need to see what buttons your pressing? Have you not been gaming for that long?



Chazore on 18 March 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
the-pi-guy said:

Why don't you like VR? 

Many reasons. A few examples;

I hate wearing things on my head. Don't even like wearing headphones so I'm certainly not going to like some heavy vr device.

You're the same with headhpones too?, I thought I was the only one on here and I totally forgot that my ears burn too easily with headphones which is why I always end up going with earphones instead, I can definitely see that being an issue for me in the future (that is unless I just stick with earphones). Also forgot to mention glasses use, man does it already feel weird having to wear 3D shades over my own glasses at the cinema. 



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Slarvax on 18 March 2016

If I stick the Wii U gamepad to my forehead, does it count as VR?



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Wildcard36qs on 18 March 2016

Just get a $10 Google Cardboard and see how amazing the tech can be.



Normchacho on 18 March 2016
Chazore said:
Normchacho said:

I've seen you complain about people saying PCVR is going to do badly way more than I've actually seen people say PCVR is going to do badly...what gives?

I can't point out what others are saying now?, like not only on here but around the web?.

You can, but the person you were responding to didn't say PCVR wasn't going to be succesful...Actually, nobody in this thread said that as far as I'm aware.

It just seems like an overreaction when you're talking more about people not liking PCVR than the people who don't like PCVR...



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