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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024
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A super expensive headset with no software didn't sell well? Who would have thought? Sony did the same shit with the same outcome. Even Meta stopped making games and is now watching their sales tank.
Every company wants to make a headset so they can get rich but not a single one is making software that anyone wants. And they don't understand the gaming industry apparently so they try to offer productivity and AR bullshit. What people want for a VR headset is games and porn. Why is that so hard to understand?
When did Meta stop making games? Pretty sure they still have many of their studios working on stuff, Asgard’s wrath was the only one they released half a year ago.
I find Apple‘s "general purpose VR" approach interesting, but I don’t think it’s going to fly right now, as you said: gaming is the main use case so far and Apple‘s not playing along. Even if they were, I don’t know if it made a huge difference, it would still have a tiny market size with expensive hardware.
I think Meta's problem now is now that their headset is no longer super cheap. The Q3 is double the price of the Q2. It's no longer a cheap toy you could buy on a whim.
Its kind of left the PC without a super cheap headset as well.
Bad news for VR tbh. I was hoping the PS2VR PC dongle might do it, but it sounds like they've gutted it for PC users.
It definitely seems like sales are much much lower with the 200 bucks Q2/Q3 difference. Q2 is still fine for PC and even cheaper than before.
I don’t see the PSVR PC dongle doing anything or almost anyone.
There's a cheaper version of Q3 coming soon to plug that hole on the market.