That is not why Arcades died at all. Arcades thrived as they had a edge on home consoles, as that gap decreased so did the arcades. Arcades died when you can get Arcade perfect ports on Consoles at the same time the Arcades did. Why pay several quarters for a single play Capcom vs Marvel 2 when you can own the actual game at home and play as much as you want.
It has nothing to do with social experiences or being stagnant. Controllers stayed mostly the same for some 20 years as people fail to realize it’s formula and not innovation that makes a game succeed.
The Greeks knew about this in ancient times, formula is taught in every form of art, expression and media type. There is a mathematical formula to why we find cute mascots cute. And it’s not in some “magic” innovators they to pass off. Yes there times a Innovator finds what new formulas work, and their successes form the framework of their next big success.
which is why both Sony and Microsoft are building new hardware, actual new consoles for VR. and Nintendo are delaying their new console for VR. not only all this but its rapidly getting cheaper (half price rival 4 months down the line) gpu’s that are overkill for VR are ridiculously cheaper, new rendering tech making lower hardware then current gen consoles run VR constantly being improved on, innovations in VR constantly being pumped out.
I don;t see a reason to change controller set ups. What good reason is there for Sony or Microsoft to change their controller configurations like Nintendo does, who have pretty much also designed their controllers to be like the PS and XB controllers, just one of them has a huge screen in the middle to make the Nintendo DS into a console. I don;t agree with the share thing either, I’ve spent the last two weeks playing Overwatch with all sorts of people sharing a gaming experience the likes of Turtles in Time and X-Men Arcade, where team work and a cooperative experience leads to victory. You can’t just say they need to change their controller set ups without telling us why. Why do they need to change these things? You gonna tell me PCs are a stagnant platform because they’ve been using keyboard and mice as their control interface for over 40 years?
Facebook buying VR doesn’t mean anything outside of Facebook thinking VR is worth 2 billion dollars, like Star Wars is revolutionary media because Disney paid 4 billion for it? Hell no, Disney paid 4 billion for it because they think it can make them way more then that on returns. Same with Facebook. This is a non-point, dollars don’t mean anything as far as forward moving media is concerned. As for VR being full of Mutlimodality, I guess. Yea it put you “in the game” but you;re the one who always says modern day games remove all the imagination aspects of a game, something VR does even more then modern day games do. Otherwise it’s just a way to remove the right control stick for camera support for all the games I’ve seen using it. I haven’t seen anything revolutionary about it, and that looks to be extremely limiting to boot. It only really seems to work with a first person perspective, is there anything out there that uses a different perspective for a VR game? I haven’t seen it. FPS roller coaster rides, car driving, shooting, it’s all been FPS. I like FPS, but it’s one my least played genres so 90’s of what I want to play isn’t covered by VR, least not the type of VR products developers are actually developing. No clue how I’d even begin to play my favorite genre, action games, they move so fast cameras programmed specifically to keep tack of the action aren’t always fast enough, how the hell is my neck going to be that fast? I don;t want to play fighters with VR, it just makes it harder to follow the action and doesn’t actually add anything to gameplay. Don’t want to watch fighters that way either, I hate stream chatrooms, “VR Chatrooms” are just going to be 10x worse. No thanks.
Look dude you need to actually explain and give examples of how VR changes everything. I’ll let you condescend to me and use small words instead of words like Multimodality and shit. Seriously condescend to me and tell me how VR as it stands changes everything, because I just see a bunch of first person games that eliminate my need for a right stick. I still have to use an input device like a controller. I’m not going to buy a whole vest and a bunch of shit I have to hang up in my living room to turn my living room into a playground, that’s what the The Park is for, and besides I don;t have the room for that anyway.
You really need to stop using big words that lack specifics, because anyone can just say a bunch of vague shit and then wait for something to come along that they can sit behind and go “See I told you so,” that impresses no one, you need to actually back up what you’re saying and tell me why I should care about VR if you wish to continue this conversation. You have a serious problem with talking high and mighty and using big words (I have access to a dictionary and thesaurus to you know) without ever actually explaining anything, you talk a lot but say nothing, then you talk down to people about them having low IQs or narrow vision or something, it doesn’t make you right, or prove any kind of point, it just makes you an entitled asshole.