? I think you better recheck what I wrote, I gave a perfect example of a similar company not doing what they said they would and AFAIKR they didnt get 'torn a new one'
How did that 15fps game get released last week?
'requires' as in works reasonably well
So it was impossible to preorder halo 3 (pay a deposit)?
You missed out the second part of my point. I know someone who has been withheld a year from releasing by Sony QA because they kept finding bugs and rejecting the submission. Quite why they don't apply this QA across the board (I guess minimum framerate isn't a technical requirement for conventional games) is a mystery.
There is no "works reasonably well" in VR. Have you not been paying attention?! When it doesn't work, it isn't just a case of the experience being a little sub-par, but it's actively uncomfortable that people have to stop playing. If a game isn't 60 fps solid, people will get sick from playing it, take off the headset, and never try VR again. That's what all the VR people have been telling us. That's what Sony have told us, explaining why they have refrained from doing VR any earlier, and why they reproject to 120 Hz, and why that needs a solid 60 fps base framerate.
In this case, if Sony mislead, VR on PS is dead and they'll have wasted goodness knows how much investment, just because they didn't follow up on their own identified requirements and QA.
but 60 is not 90 the threshold of VR, the box is suspected to re-project the created frame and also do the spatial audio deal with the social screen which may not be what the VR headset is showing.
That seems like a fair amount of work and reports have this box running hot enough to use active cooling.
My point was merely that PS4 cannot do VR without this box of extra tricks as it is more of a social VR solution, but is one which has been sampled by many folks and seems very effective.
NEO might just be the icing on the cake but PSVR is working on the base PS4 thanks to their processing box / engineering team
Facepalm, yes a console manufacturer mandating a minimum resolution is nothing like a console manufacturer mandating a minimum framerate ;-) thats like comparing apples to neutron stars theyre so different, Oh well I guess we'll find out in a few months how it goes (launch titles should be OK I suspect, due to the extra good impression sony will want to make, its the next batch that I expect we'll see problems)
I don't understand this reference. I am addressing your point that you felt Sony should drop PS4 from PSVR, they can't because some of their retail partners for the PSVR launch have required a deposit to secure a pre-order and this engages EU legislation that prohibits a change in the terms of sale. Sales and marketing are very different and few people complain about misleading marketing to their national regulator so it rarely gets addressed with only the most egregious transgressions getting investigated.
Agreed, the box is most likely quite simple ARM chip with some memory.
but 60 is not 90 the threshold of VR, the box is suspected to re-project the created frame and also do the spatial audio deal with the social screen which may not be what the VR headset is showing.
That seems like a fair amount of work and reports have this box running hot enough to use active cooling.
My point was merely that PS4 cannot do VR without this box of extra tricks as it is more of a social VR solution, but is one which has been sampled by many folks and seems very effective.
NEO might just be the icing on the cake but PSVR is working on the base PS4 thanks to their processing box / engineering team
Sorry I misunderstood, I thought you were talking about ppl who had preordered an item in a shop