Most people don't want to buy 144Hz monitors either, but no one is saying that they are stalling because no one is trying to make games exclusively for them.
VR is a new kind of display. Buy it if you want, don't if you don't want to, just like with any other display device. But don't cripple the device's market by segregating it for no apparent reason.
If anything, VR must be selling better than 144Hz monitors. And yet people say VR is stalling, instead of 144Hz monitors!
The thing with VR is that its a peripheral first and formost, and not so much a
platform. I tried PSVR. I loved it, but i would never classify it with more classical hardware. Its his own thing, but its also something that is a
niche. There are many reasons why VR does not go off:
- People get sick from these things.
- There is no universal VR platform on PC given the multitude of VR companies there (Gear VR, Vive, StarVR, Rift, just to name a few).
- Sony is the only one who has a VR device on consoles. Thus its an exclusive thing there.
The second reason is probably the most dominant reason why VR does not take off: Developers have to support so many
sub models it just becomes unworkable.
I for one have far more interest in Hololens/AR but realistically, i do expect that to be a
niche aswell. Hololens geniunely does try something completely new however.
You don't even know the half of it. Dunno what Grimmrobe's affiliation with the dude is, but some of the Icycalm posts he's shared have been laugh out loud ridiculous. Like claiming that game complexity is inherently tied to resolution, because if you double the resolution of a chess board the game gets more complex (apparently Chessmaster 10th Edition runs at a resolution of 8x8). Or freaking out about the word gameplay, because you don't say "musiclisten" or "moviewatch".
Or all indies are bad. Its a thing, i know. You are saying all the things i originally wanted to say. There might be the occassional philosophical point of thought worth listening to, but in general, Icycalm's stuff should
never be taken as gospel. You would want to have a few more sources than just Icycalm.*
*There are however, although unrelated to journalism, some people in the programming industry whose words you can pretty much take for fact. Think of Mikael Kalms from DICE for instance, or, if you know Demoscene culture, Mentor, Blueberry and Rrrola for size optimization and synthesizer programming.
I've been reading his stuff for 10 years and he is my clan leader.
And as such the ability to differentiate between multiple sources got lost on you because every single time you cite a
source you cite Icycalm as the one defining source to rule them all, and disregard everything else.
I like Digital Foundry for instance, but i would never dismiss other outlets like VG Tech or NX Gamer simply because they
nuance different things. Your only cite is
always Culture VG, and not 1 or 2 other sources that
nuance different things. It makes the risk of bias be an imminent threat to your actual argument.
Astro Bot and RE7 are cool. But RE7 can be played without VR also, and Astro Bot is not exactly the kind of game that fires up people's imaginations. You have to PLAY it to see that it's great, but with stuff like Ghost of Tsushima you are drooling BEFORE you even play it.
THAT'S what VR needs.
And in order for Ghost of Tsushima to actually be immersive in VR, you would likely need to shift the perspective in which the game is played. A ton of VR titles are FP because that's the most immersive viewing point you can have (And practically the only way imo VR makes any proper sense in terms of
realism.
Since GoT isn't a FP game, it does not really classify as a good example.
Movement is NOT part of the immersion in VR. Headsets are merely a halfway point to brain jacking where it will even be IMPOSSIBLE to move. Read the essay I linked. No one in the industry understands this stuff like Alex Kierkegaard. Unless you read him, you will not understand why things are happening the way they are.
My dude, please stop with the
about Icycalm. Its fine to admire people, but to rely so heavily solely on a single individual that every word he/she says is canon is just unhealthy in my eyes.