04-12-2019 02:53 PM
04-15-2019 08:13 AM
04-15-2019 09:05 AM
04-15-2019 09:17 AM
CrashFu said:
Because nothing says "Enthusiast" like getting your hardware from a company that is less than 1% invested in your hobby, and that has a proven track-record of abandoning their products immediately after release.
Yep, that totally screams "Enthusiast" and not "Making rash, knee-jerk decisions in response to blind speculation" :wink:
04-15-2019 09:27 AM
04-15-2019 09:58 AM
04-15-2019 10:20 AM
RedRizla said:
Not wanting to repeat myself, but why didn't they just make Rift -S like Rift Quest? That way you get audio headphones, ipd adjustment, higher resolutions screens and all for the same price as the Oculus Quest. I remember the guy from Oculus saying it was the halo design of the Rift -S that made it the same price as the Oculus Quest, but I think people were happy with the design of Oculus Quest and CV1.
I don't think they would have needed to even partner with Lenovo if they had done that would they?
04-15-2019 10:21 AM
RedRizla said:
Not wanting to repeat myself, but why didn't they just make Rift -S like Rift Quest? That way you get audio headphones, ipd adjustment, higher resolutions screens and all for the same price as the Oculus Quest. I remember the guy from Oculus saying it was the halo design of the Rift -S that made it the same price as the Oculus Quest, but I think people were happy with the design of Oculus Quest and CV1.
I don't think they would have needed to even partner with Lenovo if they had done that would they?
04-15-2019 10:31 AM
We are a couple of fucken genius! especially me because this link said content is king and quoted the movie field of dreams: make it and they will come a few hours later after our chat.
Zenbane said:
inovator said:
At the end of the day software is king. Make software awesome enough then more will come.Agreed. This is the one constant truth that has proven its own validity repeatedly from the beginning of this era of mainstream VR.
04-15-2019 10:33 AM
The enthusiast is interested in the bleeding edge of technology. The audio enthusiast has $1,000 speakers not the cheap $50 speakers.
04-15-2019 11:34 AM
CrashFu said:
The enthusiast is interested in the bleeding edge of technology. The audio enthusiast has $1,000 speakers not the cheap $50 speakers.
You're confusing "being an enthusiast" with "being a pretentious rich kid who doesn't understand the difference between Cost and Value". To use your audio equipment metaphor:
Some rich kid might spend a ton of money on some over-hyped, flashy-looking, celebrity-endorsed Headphones and think he's got the best of the best because it was the most expensive and there were the most ads on TV for it.
A true enthusiast would spend half as much (or less!) on a good pair of Audio-Technicas, knowing they come from a company that has been wholly dedicated to making audio equipment from the start. Even if it's not the most expensive set Audio-Technica has, the enthusiast knows that they will be the best for that price. And because the enthusiast didn't waste all that extra money paying for the over-hyped stuff, they can take what they saved and go buy tons of actual media to enjoy with it.
Although, I think a more fitting metaphor at this point would be that Oculus is Nintendo and Valve is Walmart. If Walmart announced an official Walmart-branded, Walmart-designed game console tomorrow, and gave no details about it other than a single photo and the promise that it has "a higher resolution than the Nintendo Switch!" or something like that, would you swear off Nintendo games for life and become a loyal devotee of the Walmart console empire? "That's apples to oranges, Walmart doesn't make games or game consoles!" Exactly. They have no prior history of making game consoles, and they sell other peoples' games (many of them out of bins with big, single-digit price signs overhead) but are otherwise not part of the game industry. So why would you trust them with a game console, especially given a suspicious lack of details, unless you were the most die-hard Walmart fan alive?