lukilladog
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The comparisons are made because gamers do not know when to accept beneficial advancements in the industry, regardless of how big or small they are. There is no mention of Motion controls, Kinect, Virtual Boy, and 3D because they were all extremely limited in scope and offered little room for growth - and never proved themselves to any serious degree. Yes, you had some masterpiece Wii games like Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, but those barely utilized motion controls and were not making a case for the tech. Skyward Sword is very divisive. Kinect had Fru, which was a really great game, but simply not enough to justify the tech.
VR is the opposite. It's the first radical gamechanger since 3D graphics that actually works as intended, has actually proven itself, and has limitless potential for growth. It also compasses everything that came before it. 3D, Motion controls, Kinect. They are simply precursors to VR, and unlike those, VR has no descendant. Unless we count the merging of VR and AR into one device.
And no, VR is not dead. This is merely the gartner hype cycle playing out, just as it did for all technology mediums. PCs, Smartphones, Tablets - each of these were hyped up to a certain point by the media/anaylsts and all fell short of where the media/anaylsts expected them to be. They all went into the trough of dillusionment before eventually rising out and reaching, then surpassing the initial wave of hype.
Basically, blame the media. They are responsible for an artificially induced 'crash and burn' of all technologies.
So gamers are smart for not accepting motion controls, kinect, virtual boy and 3d vision... but they are idiots for not accepting VR. Has it occurred to you that gamers don´t have any duty or responsibility to accept stuff they don´t like to use just for the sake of "beneficial" advancements in the industry?. What is the purpose of having advancements in the industry if people prefer other ways of playing games anyway?. Even most VR owners hang their sets after a few weeks or months, you can´t blame the media for that.