Zambayoshi
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A bit of a tangent, but it's saddening and revealing that Nadella referred to buying 'Minecraft' rather than buying Mojang. Apparently during the meetings between MS and Mojang there was an occasion where an MS executive said the same thing. To many people, Mojang is just 'the Minecraft company' but I'm sure a lot of people working for Mojang would have loved to branch out. Perhaps that is why Mojang was rumoured to be offering employees $300,000 to stay on for 12 months after the acquisition by MS.
With respect to the Hololens being focused on enterprise users, I think this is more because MS cannot make the device cheap enough to attract people who want to play Minecraft in AR. Let's face it, AR games to date have always been gimmicky or an afterthought added onto a non-AR product. I remember when Vita came out with the AR cards, I played around with the games for a while. They were pretty cool but nothing that captured my attention for long. I used the AR features of Hatsune Miku Project Diva f a few times but I wouldn't pay for it as DLC or a self-contained product.
I think this is the other problem that Microsoft is facing. It would be a massive gamble to go feet-first into developing for AR. Sony is doing it with VR based on market research and the fact that Oculus has been paving the way. Microsoft is all by itself on AR and I would be surprised if market research showed a massive interest in Hololens as a gaming device.
With respect to the Hololens being focused on enterprise users, I think this is more because MS cannot make the device cheap enough to attract people who want to play Minecraft in AR. Let's face it, AR games to date have always been gimmicky or an afterthought added onto a non-AR product. I remember when Vita came out with the AR cards, I played around with the games for a while. They were pretty cool but nothing that captured my attention for long. I used the AR features of Hatsune Miku Project Diva f a few times but I wouldn't pay for it as DLC or a self-contained product.
I think this is the other problem that Microsoft is facing. It would be a massive gamble to go feet-first into developing for AR. Sony is doing it with VR based on market research and the fact that Oculus has been paving the way. Microsoft is all by itself on AR and I would be surprised if market research showed a massive interest in Hololens as a gaming device.