Why VR Exclusives Might Be Holding Back Innovation 

i'm not long into the video but when did you record the video ? nowadays The oculus quest is part of facebook or their new name meta which is why it's called meta quest now. ok ethical questions ? Platform exclusivity is a thing since the beginning of games. nintendo games were never available on non nintendo consoles as an example. also playstation is the only place where you can play bloodborn. the phenomenon that the market gets more open is a newer concept with games like Horizon zero dawn and ghost of tsushima slowly coming to pc aswell. a divide due to financial means or the hardware they own is litteraly always there. a person that can't afford a gaming console or a tv can't play the games on the console. there is no video game that is accesable to everyone regardless of money or hardware. the question you are asking shouldn't be "should immersive expierences be restricted to those who can afford them or should there be effords made to grant accesability for all" but instead how do you make the hardware affordable and painlessly enough to get a proper audience. That is why the meta quest 2 and 3 are the most used headsets. they are way cheaper than their pc exclusive counterparts and offer a game library with many games. the issue here is that it's not as easy to use a vr headset as a pc or console. think of it like that. If i sit down on my chair i can turn my pc on get some snacks or something to drink and just do what i need with no extra set up. I can watch a movie and eat or drink wihile i do that. with a vr headset i'm essentially commiting to the experience. in most games i should be standing and have a lot of room arround me. i have a huge dead zone in front of me so eating isn't an option and the headset gets kinda heavy over time aswell. so "exclusive vr content can be used as a marketing strategy to pressure users into choosing a specific hardware platform or subscription services" PSN+ is a requirement for online play on playstation and the subscribtion gives you "free" games that you can only keep as long as you are subscribed. Xbox game pass also does that. and in regards to exclusives ? Halo was an exclusive for a LOOOONG time, pokemon is a nintendo exclusiv titel, bloodborn is a playstation exclusive titel. sooo yeah been there done that. developers and studios should strive crossplatform compatability ? you mean how every game needs to extremly downgrade their graphics to make it compatible with the meta quest ? (onward) (bone lab) or how extremly slow the progress becomes due to having to focus a small team on multible ports? (zenith) that also kills games. you have to remember that there are a lot of diffrent controllers and hardware limitations. It is way easier for a studio to focus on 1 platform. What platform they choose ? the most used one. that is why assains creed nexus vr is a quest game. so now that the video is over i have a few thoughts. the main issues you were talking about is how the gaming industry as a whole opperates which i understand but it's not really viable to call this a VR issue. i hope you took my words as constructive critizsm and not as "hate" because i feel like you have the best intentions and am happy that you are talking about VR

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No different from console exclusives.

they should just have it like xbox and playstation had it back in the 2010s

Most of this issue is solved or very soon to be solved. Meta is starting to licence out their OS to third parties, and the only vr headset you need to experience everything is a quest and a decent pc. And steam vr is almost universally adopted and supported by all headsets except a few Chinese exceptions or older headsets that predate the widespread adoption. So needing multiple headsets is now outdated and has been for years. Well made video, but your points have not been researched well enough. Keep going though, I would love to see more videos better produced.

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