The backdrop is that electronic prices aren’t dropping the way they used to so you just can’t expect progression like PS2 -> PS3 -> PS4 -> PS5. The game software industry did not expect this trend when it was developing games 5 years ago and wound up with a generation of new games that require more expensive hardware than the typical gamer has.

Meta can’t announce an MQ4 when the MQ3 consumer is cost-motivated and instead of an MQ4 they came out with a cost-reduced MQ3S which is the brains of an MQ3 (software compatible) in the body of an MQ2.

The story is that Meta is looking for some escape from oldster-dominant Facebook but when I started focusing on the social features I met a lot of retirees who play Beat Saber and like to go on cruises and post pano videos on YouTube. I don’t think it helps with their demographic problems.

I have a big backlog of VR games which are similar to conventional video games, these are fun and all but they compete with so many flat games like Hollow Knight: Silksong and Arknights and such.

To be honest, the new foveated rendering/eye tracking, makes headsets WAY better. Display resolutions and lenses have gotten way better too. But the investment has slacked off really hard. I love my H2 Reverb even more, now that I have an open source driver for it, after Windows discontinued it. However, a lot of companies just aren't that interested anymore.

Another problem is, that despite headsets getting better, the prices haven't come down. They are just extremely expensive devices that can't really compromise on quality while maintaining good results.

Sounds like the VR headset problem in a nutshell to me.

...made by a company that's really good at releasing cool demos and taking people's money, but really bad at actually delivering products to those people.