Looking within the Eurogamer team, you can count the number of people who own any VR headset on one hand. According to estimations shared byand calculated by online business platform Statista, only 1.
3 percent of the world's population will own some form of VR hardware this year. By their projections, in 2027 that percentage will have plateaued out at 1.7 precent, whilst the percentage of people playing video games in any form will jump from 45 to 51.3 percent in the same timeframe.
Until they solve every player looking like this, VR will always stay niche.
I think it will be. I think most people (myself included) don't want the gaming standard to involve wearing a screen an inch from your eyes for hours. VR is super neat but I don't think it should become mainstream.
I think so. There is just too much going on to where I even feel like playing regularly. For a pretty decent sized amount of people, it will make them feel physically ill. It also feels cumbersome at times.
as long as big sites only report about normal-games-to-VR-ports like Resident Evil but never about hits like Population One, Contractors, After the Fall or Red Matter, it will remain somewhat of a niche. Could change as soon as news sites like Eurogamer decide to post news.
I think it will be. I think most people (myself included) don't want the gaming standard to involve wearing a screen an inch from your eyes for hours. VR is super neat but I don't think it should become mainstream.
All the comments and not one mention of Half Life Alyx 👍 means we may be over the hump.
It will stay niche as long as the price point stays high and support stays minimal
Well yes.
As long as there is the unsolved issue of walking free but limited to your 4 walls, so you have to move by stick, vr games can’t show their full potential. IMHO
I’m still genuinely surprised that Sony bothered to make a 2nd one. I thought the sales numbers weren’t high enough for them to invest more time and money
Yup, I had an oculus at home for 6 months. I couldn’t be bothered strapping on a headset. Rather just sit my butt on the couch and play my NintendoSwitch
Games games games please! Open, immersive worlds that you can fall into, to evolve the industry. Witcher, Elder Scrolls, something to make the world go WOW, VR still waiting for a killer experience. Resident Evil certainly my highlight, VR transformed it beautifully.
Yes, the price point is a sticking point for a lot of people, you need to spend just as much money on the goggles as you do on the console you need to play it on. Plus outside of a couple of developers hasn't been adopted by any of the main development studios
I can't justify buying PSVR 2 when I own a PC headset. If it had official PC support I'd be very tempted by the one cable setup and eye tracking
Until those headsets are just wireless goggles that are comfortable enough to wear for hours on end yet very affordable, it will be niche. Until then it's a very expensive hobby for the enthusiasts or a toy for the rich. But I do think some day it could become mainstream.
Yes. I mean if the best gameplay they can come up with for the biggest release is just pretending to climb endlessly. Talk about repetitive. Motion control has already failed as a concept. The wii was a massive hit but we all quickly went back to the standard controller.
I've tried VR a couple of times and felt wildly uncomfortable while using it, to the point where I never want another one on my head ever again. I'm sure I'm not alone in this, and I'm sure that with enough of us out there, that alone prevents it ever going mainstream
Two things stand against it. Faff and motion sickness.
It always will if people don’t spend some cash, but I have to say having been the owner of Psvr the Psvr2 is unreal very impressed loving every hour I’m enveloped into a VR world and getting addicted to games like Pavlov and the light brigade etc
It prices itself out of most living rooms. Not to say its too expensive, the tech demands the cost, but it will make it less accessible.
For now, yeah
I think it will grow, but won't become mainstream until there is a solution to the sickness issues.
Will be interesting knowing I'm the very small minority here, but it seems blatantly obvious that VR will be big over time. The problem is that this obviousness can only be found from people who've used VR extensively and have researched the progress of the tech.
It will always be somewhat niche for various reasons, it's a high price buy in, some people don't have the space to practically use it, and quite a few people can't use them due to severe vertigo sensations.
Yes. Next question?
Despite the rip-roaring success of the 𝗡𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼 𝗪𝗶𝗶 and its motion controllers, we’re still gaming in the traditional manner and I’m therefore of the opinion that whilst VR may gain more traction in the years to come, it’ll remain niche for the foreseeable future.
Playing Video Games since 1989 and ℹ think VR Is the Next Big thing and will be Great in the near Future 😃
I just haven’t had a desire to get into the VR realm. Maybe I’m just old school.
Yes.
Another failed attempt to revive dead, dumb and expensive technology. People buying consoles to play while laying in bed, I'm too tired to move the whole wrist with a mouse so playing with high sens on mouse and live in a 10 sq. m room