Once again, VR has surfaced in the news in connection to the Nintendo Switch. VR on Nintendo's current platform would only harm its current success.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
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Where should I begin....
**(VR) has been met with mixed to negative results commercially**
Subjective. Consumer vr has never existed until now. It has sold millions of units across mobile, pc, stand alone and console. Pong and Atari didn't sell 100 million like today. That took time. It's doing fine. Stop thinking gaming started 10 years ago.
**Many will concur that there is a steep drop-off to that initial excitement after a short time with the technology. In other words, the positive experiences don’t endure.**
Subjective. Others will say there isn't any drop off and play more vr than flat screen games like myself now. The excitement continues. Speak for yourself.
**I don’t feel like the technology is ready for its place in the mainstream gaming arena.**
I guess pong and Atari weren't ready either. But look what market they helped create that you benefit from article writer. Did you forget how gaming started?
**should Nintendo consider it in the near future, they’d be taking an extreme risk.**
That's how things get started. Someone takes a risk.
**Virtual Reality is simply more physically demanding than the gaming audience prefers.**
Didn't know sitting on a couch with an hmd and a controller in hand was a demanding option.
**medical professionals warned of the risk to eyesight that VR poses.**
Medical professionals say the same for television, cell phones, computer monitors while typing, etc. And to take 15 minute breaks. Tell us something new.
**Furthermore, the use of motion controls will become tiresome.**
Says you if you're lazy.
Article goes on and on with negativity. Multiple switches could link by wifi or adhoc to play together. Right now, Bandai Namco has gamers playing together with mario kart in the arcades with the consent of Nintendo that may come home one day.
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Comparing vr sales to PS4 sales and attachment rate is idiotic. There are $60 games that don't sell 1 to 1. Even $10 games don't sell 1 to 1. Does that mean those games are failures? Idiotic.
Why type all this complete nonsense and just say you don't like vr and don't want nintendo to enter the market? Nintendo could make excellent vr games if they tried that doesn't require reality looking graphics. And the joycons are pretty much vr ready. Labo Toycons tell me nintendo is more than creative in making fun vr. They made cardboard fun. CARDBOARD.
How do you know what nintendo needs or could possibly help make even better.
More like Nintendo CAN’T do VR. 720p 30 fps or lower doesn’t work for VR....
Has the writer of the article ever played Playroom VR's Robot Rescue on PSVR? If not, they need to play that and then they will see what they are missing with Nintendo not doing VR. Im looking forward to Astrobot, Robot Rescue was amazing.
Need a strong word. But it would be nice to have. Just look up Mario Kart VR and think that that could be a possibility. Plus remastered of Virtual boy games could be awesome.
No it doesn't but neither did Sony and its cool that they support it, although with Nintys currently underpowered hardware I doubt they could support VR.