PS4 has it and its doing ok Microsoft just fails at getting things done they'll be third party soon enough.

I think MS could have gotten it done on X1X.

But they weren't wrong that it wasn't that much in demand. While it's been respectfully successful on PS, and even on PC, it is still pretty early in adoption ratios. The X1X was a niche product from the start, and they knew it wasn't going to sell like crazy. I assume the X1X has done respectfully well in relation to the Xbox overall sales though....not factoring in how Xbox is doing overall to make it a console war thing. Since it wasn't going to be their biggest seller, I can see why they wouldn't expend the resources on making a couple different hardware providers support to make it work with their system.

My only issue with what they did isn't that they didn't bring support, it's that they promoted support for it when they should have looked at if it was financially viable before hand. They did the same thing with Halolens, although I think that's because they knew people weren't going to pay what Halolens costs to play AR, and they knew the hardware in it's current form wasn't going to be satisfactory to gamers(very limited FOV).

But MS has been trying to take focus away from Sony's VR since Sony first started promoting it harder. They couldn't down play it because there was too much hype. That's why we got the staged Minecraft Halolens demo, and the talk about them bringing 3rd party VR devices to X1X.

When it comes to this, MS has been more reactive than proactive. While they are doing some good with VR support built into DirectX, that is a far cry from being a major player in the VR market, and MS is, or was, trying hard to make themselves out as relevant in that field for when VR starts to pick up steam. Now they're just more in a holding pattern, and I assume if VR becomes popular enough, they'll make it out like they were always on board. They're already trying to do that with their DirectX VR stuff, but as it is now, the PC hardware makers seem to prefer using their own stuff, because they want to control their own markets.

If they aren't meant to compete, get out of the way. Bad VR experiences just hurt VR as a medium.

it isnt a bad vr expereince though, i own it and use it all the time for GTS, Moss, looking to buy RE7 just for the VR.

Why no issue or complaints about samsung gear VR? or the iphone VR or android cardboard.

You can't expect perfection first time around dude.

Even during the birth of this industry and traditional gaming, there were plenty of bad experiences and the good ones shone through. The medium is still young.