Re:All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to...
by washadjeffmad on Thursday March 08, 2018 @04:42PM
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No, because the Switch is a game console whose hardware is produced by Nintendo to run Nintendo approved software. It doesn't allow homebrew by default and is a closed platform, and pretty much everyone buying one knows this.
An Oculus is not a standalone product; it is a peripheral that relies on an open PC platform for its processing. If software the Oculus uses can run on any PC and the Oculus does not have a unique hardware capacity to operate the software, then the exclusivity is an arbitrary constraint.
Oculus wants all the perks of being its own platform without the responsibility or technical merit.
Re:All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to...
by p1necone on Thursday March 08, 2018 @08:41PM
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Very well put. Can you imagine if say Logitech funded a flight simulator that only supported their joysticks, or Samsung funded a game that would only run on their monitors?
An Oculus is not a standalone product; it is a peripheral that relies on an open PC platform for its processing. If software the Oculus uses can run on any PC and the Oculus does not have a unique hardware capacity to operate the software, then the exclusivity is an arbitrary constraint.
Oculus wants all the perks of being its own platform without the responsibility or technical merit.