With that thinking expensive consoles and equivalent pc specs and subscription services aren't the way forward either, they should just make mobile games that work on $50 smartphones or release a "mini" level console so everyone can play. Abstractly choosing cut off points on what becomes "too niche" or "too expensive" to bother just to favor one company's decision over another's is quite silly and a futile exercise loaded with confirmation bias. Why does anyone need to defend Microsoft for its decision anyway and why would an actual gamer care for such things, we all have played and liked unpopular (and therefor niche) by the mainstream games at some point, lol. Consoles, especially if separated by platform holder (which they should be, Microsoft doesn't benefit from people who went on competitor systems), are super niche compared to other markets too btw. Nobody said MS should only ever make VR games starting today after all, but just as the guy acknowledges the potential for its future, so should MS and actually, you know, maybe dabble in it rather than let everyone overtake them. The hardware's growing cheaper and better by the day and the day that it becomes approachable enough by anyone's random subjective standards could be as soon as mid next gen as far as consoles are concerned, we'll see what Sony manages to put out, hopefully at least Rift S level hardware overall (better here, equal there, worse there, etc, but overall), and if the pricing remains as low as the current PSVR's (or eventually gets there before the generation's end). The PC side is already there as a rapidly matured platform as far as I'm concerned and stand alone sets are also there with Quest though future iterations will make it even more enticing,
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and everyone else agreeing with the above and adding their random bullshit (fad etc. which Mat never says, you can't be in agreement if you say wholly different bullshit, duh) on top, lol. At one point MS was throwing money at Xbox to make it work, lol, and it didn't, for years and years, but you were ok with that. Hell, all first parties threw money at a market they didn't have at one point, consoles weren't always a thing. Edit: at least some at microsoft know what they're doing.
It's also considering seasons and hibernating bears.
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And nobody cares if that's only gonna be used by the 10% of users just as nobody cares if MSFS is only bought by 10% of PC users, it's the stuff dreams are made of, it's what games (and sims) are all about. Now if only their VR implementation is as good as VTOL VR's we're all set for the next decade as far as sims go.
