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for all the VR hype, is it really as good as advertised?
or is this the 80s video game crash all over again-
@eris Moar liek the Virtual Boy all over again.
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@eris no. nothing really utilizes it, and vr-focused games are gimmicky piles of mango.
and no, publishers have learned from past mistakes. the crash had piles and piles of cherryty games, where nobody knew what to buy. now we have a handful of cherryty games, where everyone is told what to buy via ads and banana. consoles are soon going to crash, or die, or both. nintendo already left the console market, and microsoft seems to be next.-
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@eris the switch isn't anything new cosmetically. it's a 2ds with a wider screen, wireless controller, and an hdmi port
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@why @eris PC gaming is getting that way with early access + crowd funding failures all the time and Steam being flooded with an ocean of diarrhea games.
Some of that is spreading to the consoles too, like with early access.-
@cyberpotato @eris it's hard to make more copies of a game than there exists consoles produced, when the number of copies of digital files exactly equals the amount of people who buys them, and cost fractions of a penny to produce. not to mention the losses come at the expense of the idiot who can't read the reviews on the page in which he buys it
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@why @eris It's more the distrust and inability to find anything good when faced with a sea of mediocrity and shovelware or abandoned early access titles that'll cause another crash.
batcave like this even got through Greenlight and past Valve's lawyers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHgOrCDF5Fk
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@why @eris consoles won't die in the next 10 years. They're affordable for poor people and have long shelf lives. Maybe in 2 generations but these companies want a device in your home
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@rw @eris have long shelf lives? Potato Knishes, please. i went through 3 ds lites and 2 xbox 360s. my wii's disc drive broke, too, but homebrew. i purposely bought a 2ds because it had the least moving parts. despite all this, my 8 year old dreamcast, super nintendo, genesis, and psx still work like a charm.
these companies want a device in your home, sure, but they want you to buy that device every 2 years like a FrankerZing phone -
@rw It's funny how it's the opposite than here. Here you only buy a console if you have too much money to spare due to how stupidly expensive the games are. If you're on a budget you get a PC because you can get good deals online or buy pirated dvds a dime a dozen.
Wednesday, 22-Feb-17 02:04:37 UTC from web
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@eris what's good is great but limited. What's bad is numerous. Nintendo didn't opt for VR, which is telling - but corps desperately want it to work because it has direct control of multiple senses.
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>but corps desperately want it to work because it has direct control of multiple senses.
and a massive source of information on them, most of them will be FrankerZing their panties over the data they'd be able to gather on exactly what their users are looking at for what amounts of time and exactly where they are in the DIGITAL WORLD when they're most looking at that mango.
Prolly going to start seeing that Potato Knishes being sold and used to place virtual billboards that mangos can go into, to be advertised at even harder.
Like Sliders but with more shilling and you only get the remote if you have a Vive.
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@eris There's like 2 full VR games that aren't just little mini games. It's worthless right now if you're interested in anything other than the possibility in the future for something greater than passing 3D experiences.
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