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As Mark Twain said "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."

This battle has JUST begun.

Vive barely won first round because of the controllers.

But the battle will be on again when the controllers come out for the Rift. Oculus has deep pockets which are not to be underestimated in this business.

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Oculus is still a seated experience, NOT room scale!

Even with Touch controllers, there's only a limited space to use it.

Plus you can't magically manufacture something you didn't plan to release - Especially not in a short time period.

> Oculus is still a seated experience, NOT room scale!

I don't see what the problem with this is. I want to sit down and play games. I don't want (or have room for) a room scale experience.

I've demoed both my Oculus and Rift to at least 20 people, everyone found the Rift to be boring and less engaging. The feeling of presence is completely different.

So did they prefer the Vive to the HTC?

Ops, i of course meant Rift and Vive.

Ask the XBox One how Microsoft's deep pockets helped it. ;)

I'd prefer to ask the Xbox 360 which needed over a billion dollars to fix red ringed consoles and change their process. Without those deep pockets, the Xbox platform would have died, including the xbox one.

The 360, like the PS4, won because it was significantly cheaper than the competition. Its politics and other factors play a role but I would argue they are far less significant than price for a mass market adoption consideration (especially when the market is as price sensitive as it is (kids)).

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