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Will Mobile Technology and VR Spell the End of Console Gaming?

"Mobile and VR technology may be the future of gaming but we are not convinced it will happen soon."

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Hunkaloverbear3408d ago

Nope.

Gaming is a controller and a TV like it has always been. Vr is just a gimmick. Just have a think about having something strapped to your head and how antisocial it will make everyone and also how annoying it will be to always move your head left to right and up and down. People will enjoy vr for a week or two before going back to the normal controller and TV and regret wasting so much money on something designed for on-rail games with last gen visuals.

My opinion ofcorse.

Kingthrash3603407d ago (Edited 3407d ago )

I definitely agree with vr not taking over console gaming. How could it gaming 8s supposed to be a relaxing thing...lounge and game is what consoles bring...Vr will....sorta like the wii, will require more energy, movement and less comfort.
It's a great idea but I'm a lounge gamer and I'm not gunna want to be moving around holding an imaginary gun.
Plus 800 bucks?? Naw I'm coo.
The visuals won't be last gen though...the already have great looking games on it.

SpinalRemains1383407d ago (Edited 3407d ago )

Yeah because everyone is so social nowadays when either looking down at their device or spending more time speaking to friends digitally rather than actually speaking. K, that point is busted.

But no, consoles aren't going anywhere yet. What company ever discontinued their cash cow?

DragonDDark3407d ago

No. Console aren't going anywhere any time soon.
Proof: PS4 & XB1 sales.

zsquaresoff3407d ago

Even with the success of Ps4 and xbox one, can't believe people are still asking this question.

TwoForce3407d ago

They will doing this again and again until console is dead. But i doubt that.

rainslacker3407d ago

I can't understand how if mobile couldn't kill consoles on it's own, how adding in VR will do it. VR and mobile, while feasible, is not very practical from a cost perspective. The higher end GPU's required for VR are very expensive in mobile phones, and mobile has so many limitations when it comes to games, with only cursory acknowledgement from the phone makers who prefer to keep their OS bloated and unoptimized giving as few resources to anything other than the OS and a few apps. Maybe in 5 years they won't be so expensive, but then the next thing will come out for mobile, and consoles will become stronger with new releases.

On top of that, outside the technical specs, people just don't take mobile gaming seriously....at least not in the same vein as you see on console and PC.

Before any discussion of if mobile phones will kill consoles, or it becomes "the future of gaming" it needs to remedy it's perception among gamers. The only way to do that, is to actually make the kinds of games that will appeal to gamers, and make enough of them to actually get notice, and then hope they actually sell so a viable marketplace for AAA games can be established for the publishers to see.

Until then, the question needn't even be asked, and it's absolutely laughable that some mobile diehard thinks that mobile gaming is anywhere near the same level as PC or console gaming. About the only thing mobile has going for it is high revenues and low risks....which is what attracts publishers...but those publishers aren't taking the risky moves to make more compelling content, rather they are capitalizing on a massive install base with simplistic games, media hype or popularity of franchises/IP's, or nostalgia.

Skankinruby3407d ago

Definitely not, I see huge potential for it but not to the extent of making consoles obsolete. Things like casual social gaming are not friendly to this technology

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Every Game Announced at the August VR Games Showcase - VR Tech Tube

The VR Games Showcase has come and gone.

So much stuff has been announced and revealed. We get our first look at games like Grim, Hitman 3 VR, Vendetta Forever and much more.

Here is everything that was announced.

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Review: Arcade Paradise VR - Gamer Social Club

Laundry, cleaning and classic arcade games all in glorious virtual reality

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Babadook7420d ago

Should this be in the PC section?

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PC VR On Steam Is Actually Growing, Not Shrinking

It's sometimes claimed that PC VR usage on Steam is shrinking, but here's why that isn't actually true.

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bunt-custardly435d ago

Good, silence the naysayers who talk bollocks.

Tacoboto435d ago

The context in the article is kinda like the discussion of MAU metrics. Manipulation of figures to get it to say what you want it to.

I.e. "The proportion is shrinking, but there are more players so it's actually not shrinking!"

Crows90435d ago

That's not like mau metrics ....

If there's 20,000 players and only 10% use it and then there's a jump to 40,000 and 10% are using still using it then....there's been an increase because 10% of 40k is higher than 20k.

That's an actual number increase of people using it. That's growth.

Tacoboto435d ago

MAU is used to reference engagement or growth in a game. The conversation is muddied because people want to talk about sales instead of player count. How is this not like that?

Growth can mean and be two different things. Growth of quantity, or growth of proportion. People in finance and accounting will never look at 2% in one instant and look at 2% at a later instant and say "Hey look, growth!" That's a joke, to be frank. The 2% is more than the earlier 2% but that 98% remainder also grew.

Eonjay435d ago

Which is why Sony is putting PSVR 2 on it.

Abnor_Mal435d ago

I wish Sony would have given upgrades to many of their PSVR games for their VR2 system. Unfortunately for me their pcvr movement is not doing me any favors, hopefully there’s some kind of trickle down effect.

Eonjay435d ago

Sony would only be able to Patch its own games. Devs would have to go back and create their own patches. To be frank, whats gonna stop this from happening is money. Are they willing to pay to have a developer create the patch, QA to test...

Abnor_Mal435d ago

@Eonjay totally agree with what you said about third party devs and the cost, Q&A etc, but Sony could have updated Astrobot, The Persistance, Blood and Truth, and Farpoint. Have a few in-house devs work on DriveClub vr, and pay for an update for Rush of Blood and maybe a Shadow of the Colossus VR. I would love to play Borderlands VR on PSVR2.

shinoff2183435d ago

Sure Sony mightve been able to help but reality is most of those titles were from 3rd parties.

ApocalypseShadow435d ago (Edited 435d ago )

What he's saying is that Sony should have lead by example. Instead, they haven't done shit bringing them forward and expected 3rd parties to do it themselves in bringing their own games. If Sony's not going to do it, why should they?

It's like when they lead by example in the creation of their games. Or lead by example when they make their hardware.

Hate to say it, but for PS VR 2, they are lagging big time. GT is nice. But if you're tired of sims, then there's just Horizon. I'd rather have Blood and Truth remastered at that level or a sequel than what they currently released. No chance of that though as they killed London Studios. Another bullshit move they made. About as bad as killing Evolution Studios to keep GT as their only racing game. I like Sony's platform. But I'm not buying their headset if they're not going to put in the effort like they do with flat games.

shinoff2183435d ago

Exactly. I almost bought vr2 but it's the games missing. Sure that horizon might be dope but I'd prefer the full horizon, or last of us, Spiderman, something. Pay some 3rd party devs. I was hoping to get that fallout 4 but that's not happening now lol

shinoff2183435d ago

Vr is dope. Idk know why people wanna hate. It's definitely a dope next step. Even if it's a sidestep. I really wish more developers would throw down. Imagine a last of us with vr, or a final fantasy game, all kinds of stuff. It would be incredible.

bunt-custardly435d ago

Praydog's FREE UEVR mod is working wonders for the PC VR community.