Objectively, Sony has spent a pretty serious amount of money and resources on VR.
Exactly. The longer they wait making some serious investment in VR (hardware, APIs and games), the longer it will be for them to enter and adapt into this market.
And time.
Not really, no.
Can we not bring 3D into this? Everyone that actually understands VR knows it has world-changing potential. What's the potential of 3D TV, adding more depth cues to movies and games? Very world-changing indeed.
People give VR a pass because this isn't like launching a modern console. It's like launching a PC back in the 70s, or a smartphone back in the early 2000s.
Yikes...
You're name alone should support VR anyway sir.... In all seriousness I'm sure MS will enter the fray when the tech is ready, We get standalone VR already this year with the quest.
There's no chance of your scenario playing out, because there are some seriously big areas that AR cannot do, or cannot do nearly as well as VR.
Reduced? Ouch.
Exactly. Well said.
Because VR is exploding or will explode any minute now. That's what I keep hearing anyways. Sony can speed things along if that's the case. After last of us 2 have naughty dog put all their resources into making a killer PSVR game. Someone should make a thread asking if Sony should pursue this route. Interested to hear the responses. It would be risky venture for sure. But great risk comes great rewards.
From who and where? VR bubbe hasn't happened, but everyone in the market has retargeted for 2019 as consumer adoption and retail interest continues to be very low.
2019 has only been regarded as a great year of growth for VR. No one is expecting mass adoption for at least 5 years.
I agree with you. I was being flippant. VR is niche and no where near mainstream. I kinda wonder where or how people are believing that VR will be exploding anytime soon. From what I read its actually slowing down in sales. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
Growth in B2B, not in consumer focused products.
The only slow down is in mobile VR which is exactly as planned. Mobile VR is a dead-end that was meant to simply jumpstart VR. Standalone VR has now taken the place of mobile.
Sony absolutely are, since they've been funding bigger games, and plan to do more. Oculus have less games in the pipeline, but equal investment as all of that is going into fewer, but bigger games, at the AAA scale. HTC is, well they're HTC.
What evidence do you have that Sony is investing MORE? Funding what? Funding full scale development? Funding in visibility and placement?
Don't get your news from uploadvr. They is inherent conflict of interest as their survival depends on VR succeeding. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/vr-ar-quarterly-sales-down,37335.html
Number of people on Steam with VR headsets have more than doubled in the last year so I don't think that's true.
There have been 0 20M budget games on mobiles, and that doesn't stop the world shouting about it 'being the future' for a full decade now.
They launched into a climate where the 2 other major providers had less units on the market than they sold in first 24 hours. And none of them expected 25M ceiling as a realistic target for 1st gen headsets, regardless of the size of investment behind it.
Both. The number of 1st party PSVR games and the budget of these games has exceeded both 2016/2017. As for visibility and placement: https://www.reddit.com/r/PSVR/comments/9afajm/if_you_ever_think_that_sony_is_abandoning_vr_read/
What are the actual sales. 0.4 to .8 percent of what? active users actual units of what total number? Where are they pulling this data from?
UploadVR doesn't matter here at all. They are reporting on public statistics which everyone can see. It's all factual.
