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Interesting Interview to Gabe Newell about Valve VR Plans

• Fej 10y ago
  "In Valve's eyes it's quality/quantity of available software, rather than price of entry, that's keeping a lot of people from buying into the VR market." This is absurd. Price is absolutely the limiting factor. We're talking - bare minimum - $800 for the Vive (since, IMO, it's the only PC-based VR experience worth buying) plus $600 (again, bare minimum) for a PC capable of running it. AMD has probably done more than anyone else with regard to dropping the cost of entry, with the RX 480. Most people don't have $1400+ to drop on a gaming experience. That's a lot of money. A down payment on a car, maybe.
  • CardenB 10y ago
    Most people don't have that kind of money, but I can imagine a large enough customer base that does. Yet those people can't even justify the purchase because of the lack of developer support. If you want prices to come down in VR you need to drive adoption before the prices go down.