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Palmer's article "Free isn't cheap enough" seems relevant: https://palmerluckey.com/free-isnt-cheap-enough/ https://palmerluckey.com/free-isnt-cheap-enough/ Q

Palmer's article "Free isn't cheap enough" seems relevant: https://palmerluckey.com/free-isnt-cheap-enough/ https://palmerluckey.com/free-isnt-cheap-enough/ Quest headsets are indeed cheap but but perhaps sacrifice too much on the experience quality. People gotta want something before it can get cheap (not my words).

dmix 3y ago
Every time Quest 2 comes up on HN people whine about it basically playing PS3 games or glorified mobile arcade system. I personally love it, RE4 VR and the month I spent VR boxing every night was some of the most fun I’ve had gaming recently. But there’s limits to that sort of thing, especially which games get ported and VR’d. Apple doesn’t even need a suite of A+ games to get people to buy it, I don’t remember them showing any games in the launch. I get why Apple pushed it up higher in the market. The first two years will be for developers and very early adopters. This is like buying an expensive monitor/TV/casual gaming device baked into one. Hell there’s people who buy $2000 TVs, even though most people buy the $500 ones. This is way more capable than just a new TV.
zmmmmm 3y ago
Wow that's a really prophetic take on things - I've mostly written off Palmer Lucky these days but he was bang on the money there. It's interesting though how counter it runs to John Carmack's philosophy where mass market accessibility is everything. I wonder if looking back people will rethink his contribution as actually holding things back. It certainly seems like Meta is switching gears a bit with the Quest 3 going out to market at $500. It's going to be phenomenal value for what it is at that price still. But it's going to leave behind a significant segment of people for whom $299 was a palatable indulgence buy or gift for their children etc while $500 is not.

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Palmer's article "Free isn't cheap enough" seems relevant: https://palmerluckey.com/free-isnt-cheap-enough/ https://palmerluckey.com/free-isnt-cheap-enough/ Q

by dmarcos 3y ago

dmix 3y ago
Every time Quest 2 comes up on HN people whine about it basically playing PS3 games or glorified mobile arcade system. I personally love it, RE4 VR and the month I spent VR boxing every night was some of the most fun I’ve had gaming recently. But there’s limits to that sort of thing, especially which games get ported and VR’d. Apple doesn’t even need a suite of A+ games to get people to buy it, I don’t remember them showing any games in the launch. I get why Apple pushed it up higher in the market. The first two years will be for developers and very early adopters. This is like buying an expensive monitor/TV/casual gaming device baked into one. Hell there’s people who buy $2000 TVs, even though most people buy the $500 ones. This is way more capable than just a new TV.
zmmmmm 3y ago
Wow that's a really prophetic take on things - I've mostly written off Palmer Lucky these days but he was bang on the money there. It's interesting though how counter it runs to John Carmack's philosophy where mass market accessibility is everything. I wonder if looking back people will rethink his contribution as actually holding things back. It certainly seems like Meta is switching gears a bit with the Quest 3 going out to market at $500. It's going to be phenomenal value for what it is at that price still. But it's going to leave behind a significant segment of people for whom $299 was a palatable indulgence buy or gift for their children etc while $500 is not.