Mihos
Gold Member
If they release any half-decent exclusive game and call it Half Life 3, they can have a huge lead in the market immediately, but I think decades of console war rhetoric sort of deluded people into thinking that Valve actually wants to bother.
Facebook is going to probably pour billions of dollars into VR and have a massive marketing push over the next 10 years to spur adoption of the technology. As long as Valve makes sure that Oculus can't afford to lock their headset to their proprietary store, Valve gets to make a ton of money from selling VR games on Steam. It's why they've been essentially giving out their technology to anyone who wants to spend money manufacturing it (only HTC bit so far) and been very critical of any sort of exclusivity.
Oculus will have the lead because of marketing, price, and the simple fact that gaming is not the killer app for VR. I would expect a pretty decent price difference that will reflect that split as well.