Xbox says the VR market is currently too small for it to chase

[John Elden Ring]

The head of Xbox Game Studios has said the VR and AR market is currently too small for the platform holder to get involved in.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Matt Booty suggested Xbox games need to reach around 10 million players to be successful.

“I think for us, it’s just a bit of wait until there’s an audience there,” he said. “We’re very fortunate that we have got these big IPs that have turned into ongoing franchises with big communities.

“We have 10 games that have achieved over 10 million players life-to-date, which is a pretty big accomplishment, but that’s the kind of scale that we need to see success for the game and it’s just, it’s not quite there yet with AR, VR.”

 

[SLB1904]

Good. Keep sleeping ms

 

[Nhomnhom]

Xbox market is too small for VR to be viable.

These Xbox guys sure like to go on PR tours making excuses.

 

[Helios]

I have a quest 2 and use inserts inside it so i don't have to wear glasses.
It's a known thing that vr doesn't fit well with myopic vision and xbox's vision for their brand can also be described as that: myopic

Forget VR they don't even know what will become of the series s when the mid gen refreshes hit, are they still going to make a clause of parity and force devs to build for 3 consoles?

 

[Heisenberg007]

VR market is currently as big, if not bigger, than the Cloud gaming market that Xbox has pivoted its entire business model to lol.

Also, if it's so small, why was Phil Spencer promising VR compatibility with Xbox One X back in 2016?

 

[Nitro]

Microsoft: "We want to help grow the industry."

Also Microsoft: "Not enough profit in VR for us to be interested yet."

 

[peter42O]

Awesome. Hoping Microsoft stays away from VR for as long as im gaming.

 

[Helios]

Awesome. Hoping Microsoft stays away from VR for as long as im gaming.

Yeah for real, imagine if they have something like red ring of death but now its white flash of death, that might probably blind you

 

[Loy310]

But you wanna spend 69 billion on cloud?

 

[AshHunter216]

They'll just wait until it's larger and then buy up the major players.

 

[Shmunter]

Not compatible with the Streaming Future (tm)

 

[reziel]

They'll just wait until it's larger and then buy up the major players.

That appears to be their M.O. now wait until they're too far behind then act like they didn't know things were going to grow to make themselves look little help to push their purchases through.

 

[VillaiN]

They re deprieved of any inovation. All they can do s copy some1 else. If it becomes bigger they ll buy someone1with vr.

Garbage company.

 

[Zzero]

They'll just wait until it's larger and then buy up the major players.

Too late, Facebook already did it.

 

[Ezekiel]

If they were honest when they say they wanted to grow the gaming market without taking market share away from their competitors, they would support new ways to play and innovate.

But of course they're full of shit.

 

[SLB1904]

Awesome. Hoping Microsoft stays away from VR for as long as im gaming.

I'm pretty sure your opinion will change the second they jump on the bandwagon. The Scorpio bullshit presention you were clapping for sure

 

[Swift_Star]

Awesome. Hoping Microsoft stays away from VR for as long as im gaming.

They’ll enter it as soon as they see some company they deem a threat dominating the space, whatever that is. This is MS MO. They don’t innovate, they steal.

 

[Dr Bass]

Awesome. Hoping Microsoft stays away from VR for as long as im gaming.

This doesn't make sense to me. VR/AR would be purely additive.

Yet moves like the Bethesda and ABK acquisition are purely subtractive.

Are you cheering for the acquisitions while saying you don't want an entirely optional choice that a bunch of players want that would actually grow the Xbox ecosystem?

Think about what you're saying here and what that actually means.

 

[Nhomnhom]

Awesome. Hoping Microsoft stays away from VR for as long as im gaming.

Everyone that like VR also want MS away from it. Win, win.

Too bad that is not how they feel about gaming in general since the world would be a better place if MS just went away.

 

[ethomaz]

That is what smaller companies says...