Very true.
Oculus are onto a winner if they keep funding these ports.
I think they're shifting to social media too soon. Pump a bit more money and time into OG games of famous games and ports of titles and it'll pay dividends to them.
Big name game like GTA is a good start. Maybe give Bethesda a pot of gold and make them port Morrowind. Give COD some money to port over a COD game.
Simple games will win over the masses before Sony show up to the party.
Yup, I agree, but Social Media is the core moneymaker of their business at the end of the day, they don't want someone to create the 'Multiverse' before them because there's going to be a shitload of money in it, especially now that OpenXR is a thing these days.
But even if they don't let in other headsets 60% or so VR headset owners are using Oculus/Facebook/Meta [delete as applicable]
headsets so there's going to be no shortage of people in there. They'd be daft NOT to include all headsets though I think.
At some point in the not too distant future every home will have a VR headset and if Facebook have anything to do with it the majority of them will have Meta written on the things.
More big name games will come, but the most important thing is for Microsoft to join the 21st Century and bring a headset. Once they do that you'll see the majority of games released being VR games. VR support for games will start to go more than a little crazy.
I seem to remember someone at Oculus/Facebook saying that they were switching from funding lots of small content to funding fewer games with more cash.
Wouldn't surprise me if they end up releasing 1 big name game per year, or maybe 2 big name games every 3 years.
They'll continue doing this for a while longer, but I think they were expecting Microsoft to invest in VR a while ago. So far we only have standalone VR, PC VR and PSVR and I think they were expecting Sony and Microsoft to fund more big name titles by now, and Valve to bring more than 1 proper game and a glorified tech demo to the table!
By the time that the Metaverse kicks off though, the $3bn Zuckerberg spent buying Oculus and the money they've spent on R&D for hardware and games and developers is going to look like the bargain of the century!