I've always felt they did Xbox / PlayStation strategy, selling headset below cost and earning on game store fees.
Perhaps the math is not working out?
Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
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#12That's a significant increase. Can any game historians here tell us if a price hike this large has ever happened before? It's not a good look for something that seemed to be gaining a lot of traction.
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#13As much as I wanted to get into VR, Meta taking over the Quest has thankfully saved me countless sunken dollars and hours.
Lol exactly. Really wanted to play Half Life / Alex but not about to give Meta any money … absolutely not going to use a facebook account to use a VR device.
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#14I wouldn’t use one for free right now. There just isn’t a compelling experience there yet.
There's honestly just hardly even any games on it at all. And all of the games are really expensive. I like how on the Nintendo Switch there are big budget games but also thousands of games for like $2
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#15I'm shocked that there aren't more multiplayer VR experiences. Yes, sure, there's Pavlov and VR Chat. But unless you have a friend who's into VR Chat, it's remarkably difficult to find a game that can immerse two different people at the same time. It felt a bit ironic that mini golf was one of the most fun multiplayer party games. My wife was like "You should bring over your quest 2!" to our new house -- she already…
Pokerstars is pretty good as a social experience. Eleven table tennis can be fun too.
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#16As much as I wanted to get into VR, Meta taking over the Quest has thankfully saved me countless sunken dollars and hours.
Lol exactly. Really wanted to play Half Life / Alex but not about to give Meta any money … absolutely not going to use a facebook account to use a VR device.
To be fair, if you want to play Alyx you can also use the Valve Index. So no Meta involved
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#17What, why? Running out of money or cost-cutting?
Re: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
#18I'm shocked that there aren't more multiplayer VR experiences. Yes, sure, there's Pavlov and VR Chat. But unless you have a friend who's into VR Chat, it's remarkably difficult to find a game that can immerse two different people at the same time. It felt a bit ironic that mini golf was one of the most fun multiplayer party games. My wife was like "You should bring over your quest 2!" to our new house -- she already…
Spending hours in Echo VR[1] playing Zero-G Frisbee was partly what got me through the pandemic. My friends and sister would hang out in the lobby and just talk while throwing the frisbee around, or play competitive games together, and it felt like really radical and transformational gaming experience. I can't recommend it enough. It's even free-to-play.
1. https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/2215004568539258
Re: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
#19I'm shocked that there aren't more multiplayer VR experiences. Yes, sure, there's Pavlov and VR Chat. But unless you have a friend who's into VR Chat, it's remarkably difficult to find a game that can immerse two different people at the same time. It felt a bit ironic that mini golf was one of the most fun multiplayer party games. My wife was like "You should bring over your quest 2!" to our new house -- she already…
Absolutely it should be. An VRMMORPG will definitely be the way of the future for these consoles
Re: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
#20As much as I wanted to get into VR, Meta taking over the Quest has thankfully saved me countless sunken dollars and hours.
Lol exactly. Really wanted to play Half Life / Alex but not about to give Meta any money … absolutely not going to use a facebook account to use a VR device.
Alyx is probably one of the greatest gaming experiences I've had... but I was also able to borrow a Vive from a friend to play it. I'm a Half-Life nut so I would have bought a headset anyway, but I'm glad I haven't bought a Quest.