Oculus Founder Backs ‘Revive’—a Hack for Vive to Play Rift-exclusive Games—With $2K in Monthly Funding

You are missing the bigger picture – HTC and Vive are fairly partnered up – if you doubt this I think you need to do a little more reading and observing. Yes, you can see Oculus as an option on some games, that’s not the point – its the fact they are effectively in bed together… which means Oculus (as a Facebook property trying to establish brand recognition) now has to hope its fates of software delivery are not impacted by whatever whims happen with Valve, some of which can be due to their partnership with HTC. Valve has had input into the Vive and no question they see them as a partner. How you can fail to appreciate this by merely pointing out details of the GUI are beyond me. Please think a bit deeper about all the variables here.

As to Oculus usefulness as a purchase for Facebook it goes waaay beyond any question of hardware. PC fans (I am one btw) are used to this idea of “open platform”. The problem comes in when it behooves a company to not make everything 100% “open” because they have a different strategy in mind that in reality has NOTHING TO DO with the PC per se, it just happens to be the hardware of the moment in a bigger picture. Sorry you cannot see or appreciate the market reality here.

You look at it from the wrong side: Oculus is a Hardware Company First, You should treat them Like Sony and Microsoft Xbox.
They make Hardware and Finance Software to support and sell MORE hardware, they view Rift and their products as Platform not peripheral.

P.S. All of this is valid at least now until the sale pick up.
Right now exclusive games are important for many people (im one of them) and some people choose VR device by price and games, Rift is the cheapest one and has more AAA games released and coming in future.
Its a damn nice incentive for people, even the 3 people that want room scale, Rift with 3 sensors is still cheaper than Vive and you get Xbox gamepad too which goes for 50$ so thats extra value that you wont have to shill 50 bucks for.

Its you that dont understand: Oculus is NOT a software company, they are HARDWARE company that invested millions into RD and have ongoing projects.
They want to sell THEIR hardware and they want people to BUY IT.
Exclusive games are incentives.
If they were a Software company they wouldn’t need all this hardware headache.
The ONLY reason they invest money into software is to push more hardware.
BTW HTC has similar projects that just dont have as much money, but they have their program to finance games.
Also Fallout 4 VR comes first to HTC and only later to Rift and PSVR

Thats funny, coming from a clueless guy.
I never said that rift is a console, I said Platform.

Consoles make money selling games BUT to sell games they need to push hardware and to push hardware you need what??? EXCLUSIVE GAMES
You need to give people a REASON to buy your hardware.
When someone buys PS4 for Uncharted or The Last of Us, later he will also buy third party games because he already has a console.
See its very simple.

Exclusives are the CARROT, exclusives what drives people to choose YOUR Platform or Console.

I recommend you a reading comprehension class and economy for noobs.
BTW if you are a teenager than I can forgive your stupidity.

Last try, for the most touched of us, if you cant understand this, than you should hide in a dark corner and cry.

#1: To sell Console software, people need to ACTUALLY OWN the HARDWARE (Imagine that).

#2: Console manufacturers make most of their money from: Software, add-on services and accessories.

#3: Number #2 cant exist without Number #1

(if you didnt understand, take a break and re-read couple of times)

See its very easy, to sell Software you need to sell lots and lots of Hardware even if you loose money selling Hardware.

#4 In a world with more than ONE console, Manufacturers need to provide incentives to buyers so they will choose their Hardware.
Incentives split to three MAIN parts: (there is more than three but thre are the main)

1. Hardware performance
2. Exclusive Games
3. Price

#5 Sony Finances Multi Million Triple A games as INCENTIVE:
Hey people look we have Uncharted, The Last of Us, HZ:D, God of War and much more, COME BUY OUR CONSOLE.MORE SOLD CONSOLES MORE POTENTIAL CLIENTS FOR SOFTWARE.

#6 Everything above was an example, I haven’t Mentioned Oculus YET, you see, so dont put words in my mouth.

#7 So whats the conclusion? Without Hardware you cant use and buy software.
Oculus uses Console strategy to sell MORE HARDWARE, NOT SOFTWARE.
Selling Software is not on their priority because Rift is NOT a Console but a Platform.

Do you understand the difference?

On Consoles every game sold shares revenue with Sony.
On open Platform there is no revenue sharing if software was sold by a third part and it wasn’t published by Oculus.

Oculus is a HARDWARE company, they want to sell more Rift devices, software is not their priority, they PAY to develop games as INCENTIVE.

Imagine new buyer choosing a new HMD, both have almost identical spec, the main difference is in controllers, price and SOFTWARE.
Vive has tons of demos and indie games, but Rift has EXCLUSIVE AAA Game that you can ONLY play on the Rift.

P.S. Learn to lose an argument with dignity, dont be pathetic loser thats immature.

Did you know that every console company starts selling new consoles at loss? (Except Nintendo, their management are pensioner age old Japanese guys so they must make money from day one no matter what and thats why all their consoles use cheap outdated hardware).
All Sony and MS consoles were Initially sold at loss, even Xbox One X will be sold at loss, they already admitted to it.

Each console generation they (sort of) restating the brand.
PS2 sold tens of millions more than Xbox, but in the next generation x360 was leading but this generation PS4 is leading.
Each brand holds itself on their fanboys and spreading the word by the fanboys and advertising, its cars, consoles, even dishing machines, housewives tell others how this is simply the best and they go and buy one too, there are market leaders in everything, the market is not equally divided, be it cameras, air conditioners etc, people chose one brand more than others.

Because VR gaming and VR in general is new market, they are using their money reserves to build the VR market and Oculus Brand. (Best price, best AAA games available ONLY on Oculus)

There is possibility that everything they do in Gen1 comes at loss: Hardware is sold at base value, plus investment into game development.

They build both the market and the brand, so when CR becomes common place people will choose their brand.

HTC coming with HMD device ruined their plans, they had the lead and supposed to be the first and only brand at least for a big stretch of time until others pick up, but HTC coming late and yet being able to deliver a product in same time frame and it became popular ruined their plans.
Right now the worst offender is PSVR, it sold more than all PC HMDs combined, it has exclusive games and i seen a poll published here or another VR site, that regular non VR public know samsungVR and than PSVR as brand names, Oculus and HTC were at the bottom by a large margin and eve worse when asked what do you want to buy PSVR was first.

If it goes planned when next generation comes people might choose Oculus because they will know the brand as the one with good exclusive games that no one has and best price.

You can keep betting, Im mature enough not to throw a temper tantrum when I cant get a game.
Actually, During First VR gen I chose PS4PRO and PSVR, PC is getting some nice games and you dont see me starting angry petitions and reddit posts.

As far as politics go thats why countries have elections, when you dont like something you vote for someone that promises to deliver, you cant have everything: Welcome to the Real world, where you have to work and pay your bills with YOUR hard earned money.
I know I know its much easier to demand that “1%” pays your bills, because working is a chore.