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Minecraft is losing VR support next year
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Why are they removing support though?
Probably because VR gaming is basically dead. It never really took off and it's a waste of time and money for them to devote resources to it. Probably like 0.1% of users are in VR.
That being said, part of why it's dead is because no developers want to take chances on it, so it's a self fulfilling prophecy. Valve was the last one to gamble on it.
That's not even accurate.
If VR gaming is dead, then what does it say about Linux with about 5 times less users? Like, a low poly game about monkeys has a daily playerbase of a million people there. Mind you, Mincraft has 1 to 1.5 million. Not bad for a "dead" platform. Also, Valve isn't even the last one to enter the market.
I think what you're actually trying to say is that it's too niche, which it absolutely is.
It's math. The amount of money they're spending on supporting the VR platforms is less than the amount of money they make for the people on those platforms. They probably have to dedicate several multi-person teams to manage the clients.
Linux has some pretty good hedging going on with steam deck.
I don’t see how what they said was contradictory. VR gaming is indeed dead. And Linux gaming with 5 times less users is also even more dead.
There’s a reason why game devs completely ignore Linux as a platform.
For how big PS5 is and how small VR is, VR sure has a lot of people playing.
Lemmy has userbase (not even monthly activity) of 0.46mil (acc. to fedidb). Is lemmy dead?
What constitutes for a dead platform to you?
I mean. Yeah ? Can you imagine any large companies investing in this in any way? I sure can’t.
I think what you're forgetting is scale.
Lemmy is niche. VR is niche. Gaming is mainstream.
You can't call a niche dead just because there aren't that many people into it. It's a niche for a reason.
Linux is booming, even though it's "dead." Lemmy has never been this active in its entire existence. Why do investments from large companies matter?
What truly matters is growth. Negative growth is what kills a platform/industry/company/whatever else. VR is growing, Linux is growing, Lemmy is growing. It may not be fast, but they all have active userbases that support their development.
You cannot call a child "failure" just because it never achieved anything in life, can you? They are growing. They can get sick, they can recover. They can also regress due to that illness and die. Only then they're truly dead.
Because we are talking about a large company de investing from something.
It’s kinda the topic we are talking about.
Well, Mojang's Minecraft in VR is dead. But that's kinda far from VR gaming as a whole, don't you think?
One symptom does not share the entire story.
Not to mention that there is a better alternative for it anyway.