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> I see the exclusives as a negative Would anyone with a straight face say the same about Nintendo's exclusives? I don't see anyone else in the market funding
by whywhywhywhy 9y ago
> I see the exclusives as a negative
Would anyone with a straight face say the same about Nintendo's exclusives?
I don't see anyone else in the market funding great things like Medium, Quil, Lone Echo, Robo Recall. Feels it's just cutting off your nose to spite your face to complain about this.
- ericflo 9y agoGoogle has funded Tiltbrush and Blocks and released it for every VR platform. We need to grow the industry. But this isn't their biggest problem - that would be their extremely walled-off app store. Oculus must still see their platform as a kind of gaming console and not the future of computing? What a shame.
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- washadjeffmad 9y agoNo, because the Switch is a game console whose hardware is produced by Nintendo to run Nintendo approved software. It doesn't allow homebrew by default and is a closed platform, and pretty much everyone buying one knows this. An Oculus is not a standalone product; it is a peripheral that relies on an open PC platform for its processing. If software the Oculus uses can run on any PC and the Oculus does not have a unique hardware capacity to operate the software, then the exclusivity is an arbitrary constraint. Oculus wants all the perks of being its own platform without the responsibility or technical merit.
- p1necone 9y agoVery well put. Can you imagine if say Logitech funded a flight simulator that only supported their joysticks, or Samsung funded a game that would only run on their monitors?