Mibu no ookami
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I keep seeing people who suggest VR has failed and I think this is extremely premature thinking.
Arcades were absolutely huge for decades and then suddenly they weren't sustainable and the home console finally was able to provide experiences good enough that people didn't need to go to the arcades and with online gaming the social aspect of gaming changed completely.
Imagine saying Online Cafes are a failure because they didn't take off in the US.
Whether it by Super Mario Bros, Pokemon, Gran Turismo, Halo, or GTA3. Some games come along and they change the equation entirely.
That tells us that what's important is the real market environment, whether that be technology, price, culture e.t.c.
Gaming was almost dying on console until Mario and the NES came out. Pokemon completely revived the GameBoy. You couldn't find a racing experience like Gran Turismo on home console, you'd have to go to PC or Arcade, and even then Gran Turismo surpassed those with career modes before that the top franchise was NFS. Before Halo FPS was a joke on home consoles.
I'm confident that when the appropriate market conditions are set, VR will do just fine. I think GT7 is proof of that. I think if PSVR2 was 200 dollars and came with GT7 it would be doing VERY well.
Arcades were absolutely huge for decades and then suddenly they weren't sustainable and the home console finally was able to provide experiences good enough that people didn't need to go to the arcades and with online gaming the social aspect of gaming changed completely.
Imagine saying Online Cafes are a failure because they didn't take off in the US.
Whether it by Super Mario Bros, Pokemon, Gran Turismo, Halo, or GTA3. Some games come along and they change the equation entirely.
That tells us that what's important is the real market environment, whether that be technology, price, culture e.t.c.
Gaming was almost dying on console until Mario and the NES came out. Pokemon completely revived the GameBoy. You couldn't find a racing experience like Gran Turismo on home console, you'd have to go to PC or Arcade, and even then Gran Turismo surpassed those with career modes before that the top franchise was NFS. Before Halo FPS was a joke on home consoles.
I'm confident that when the appropriate market conditions are set, VR will do just fine. I think GT7 is proof of that. I think if PSVR2 was 200 dollars and came with GT7 it would be doing VERY well.