Are Consoles Holding Back PC Gaming?

[VFX_Veteran]

In what way? Graphics features? Better assets? Absolutely. Gameplay? Sales? Nope.

 

[iroboto]

I thought it was also very interesting that the Oculus Rift guys said that the cost of including an Xbox One controller was negligible. So that $15 estimate seems realistic to high, almost.

I am surprised that the difference between the PS4 controller and the Xbox One controller is estimated to be so small. Either that touchpad button, gyro, led, speaker and microphone are really cheap to add (which I can believe actually as they are all extremely common parts nowadays thanks to cars, phones and laptops), or those rumble triggers are relatively expensive.

And yeah, I wanna bet that they cost Microsoft and Sony less than this, probably a little under $349.

Oh. Weird. I just read that oculus was including the Elite Controller with each unit. I've gotta go check on this.

Edit: Whoops, I read the article wrong. Oculus shipping with regular controller.

 

[Deleted member 13524]

In what way? Graphics features? Better assets? Absolutely. Gameplay? Sales? Nope.

Erm.. what are you replying to? The BOM post or something from 4 years ago?

 

[VFX_Veteran]

Erm.. what are you replying to? The BOM post or something from 4 years ago?

Just answering the question of the OT.