Comment on Minecraft is losing VR support next year
shapis@lemmy.ml 4 weeks agoI don’t see how what they said was contradictory. VR gaming is indeed dead. And Linux gaming with 5 times less users is also even more dead.
There’s a reason why game devs completely ignore Linux as a platform.
Mistic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
For how big PS5 is and how small VR is, VR sure has a lot of people playing.
Lemmy has userbase (not even monthly activity) of 0.6mil. Is lemmy dead?
What constitutes for a dead platform to you?
shapis@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
I mean. Yeah ? Can you imagine any large companies investing in this in any way? I sure can’t.
Mistic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think what you’re forgetting is scale.
Lemmy is niche. VR is niche. Gaming is mainstream.
You can’t call a niche dead just because there aren’t that many people into it. It’s a niche for a reason.
Linux is booming, even though it’s “dead.” Lemmy has never been this active in its entire existence. Why do investments from large companies matter?
What truly matters is growth. Negative growth is what kills a platform/industry/company/whatever else. VR is growing, Linux is growing, Lemmy is growing. It may not be fast, but they all have active userbases that support their development.
You cannot call a child “failure” just because it never achieved anything in life, can you? They are growing. They can get sick, they can recover. They can also regress due to that illness and die. Only then they’re truly dead.
shapis@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Because we are talking about a large company de investing from something.
It’s kinda the topic we are talking about.