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'Future' is an odd term, console game exclusivity has been a fact of life for 40+ years.
by rjh29 5y ago
'Future' is an odd term, console game exclusivity has been a fact of life for 40+ years.
- Vinnl 5y agoThe future of VR if it takes off, I guess.
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- desmond373 5y agoThis is why I'm not too worried. I believe general purpose has an innate advantage due to versitility. PC is still around and still great for high performance gaming. Sure there are exclusives but that doesn't mean I can't play them on PC. Just means that some large company doesn't want me to and I'll happily ignore them like so many others. They may Sue me but it's not going to have a real effect unless they start catching way more people or making the fines unbearably huge. I won't give up the fight against exclusivity because my side isn't the uphill fight.
- rplnt 5y agoThat at least made some technical sense up until recently.
- ______-_-______ 5y agoDedicated fans can get around console exclusivity, as long as you're willing to wait a couple years. I wonder when we'll see the first VR headset emulator?
- Tarq0n 5y agoThere already exists software [0] to let you play quest games on steamvr/windows mixed reality, but you still have to use the oculus store unless you pirate the games. [0] https://github.com/LibreVR/Revive https://github.com/LibreVR/Revive
- indigochill 5y agoBut in the video game industry you have PCs as a pressure valve for people who don't want to be locked entirely into a single company's walled garden. I've been looking for something similar for headsets (albeit not that hard - I welcome someone to correct me on this) and so far haven't seen any commercial options that are free of a single-company chokehold. I'm not sure if even Google Cardboard qualifies since I'm not sure if you could distribute those through alternative app "stores" like F-Droid.