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Agitated_Ad6191 t1_j3zopkp wrote

4 years is a short period and it’s not nice for the people who own it. But at the same time 4 years in VR developments is a very long time. The VR technology is advancing each year and it can’t and shouldn’t be held back by older headsets. Meta is and always has been very open about their goal with VR. Every headset that is introduced by Meta or an other company is a better than the previous ones. The problem isn’t necessarily Meta but the game or app developers who can’t or don’t want to support old headsets. Sony will also move forward with PSVR2, the headset is so different from the original that it can’t easily make games that work on both.

I personally hate it that almost every PS5 game is technically held back because it still has to work on an old PS4.

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epic_null t1_j41kr0j wrote

I mostly hear you, however... I think it matters whether "ending support" means "no further advancements including bugfixes" or "your device is bricked".

Because you MUST sign in to Facebook to use the hardware (a fact I hate on its own), I expect this to be more of a "bricked" situation.

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p38fln t1_j427li0 wrote

Sony (and Microsoft) both have to fix their distribution issues before games can be made that don't support the last generation consoles

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