This is not a bright future of VR.
Seems like there is a little dishonesty going on in that article. I don't have all the links handy, but what the community has a problem with is that Oculus has basically backtracked on everything they've ever said. Also, there is at least one game that was announced as being a Vive game, but then after taking some money from Oculus, the became a Rift exclusive.
There's just no way a Facebook VR company is going to be a good thing.
The only VR set i can excuse having exclusive titles is the Sony VR... Oculus Rift is basically, as TotalBiscuit puts it, it is just a screen. So having exclusive games for screens now is not a bright future for the gaming in general.
To play a bit of devil's advocate here, Ocolus basically financed many of their exclusive titles. They basically paid the devs to make a VR game, and at the time, the Rift had no competition.
If they invested in the game dev then why not let them have a timed exclusive hardly a new concept.
You either believe what they say in interviews or you don't. Me I just buy what I like and get on with it.
I had ordered both but after a month with the Vive they aren't good enough for me yet so I sold the Vive and cancelled my Oculus. Biggest plus was I got off my arse and decorated my spare room in prep for the VR experience and by selling the Vive early I made more than enough to cover the materials :)
Then Oculus may have a hard time retaining it's customers.
This sounds to me like a byproduct of Facebook's culture. If they throw money at something then it will make things work better. Unfortunately for Luckey, I think he is regretting his decision of selling to Facebook. They just don't seem to understand that a market for PC-based gaming is much different than that of consoles. PC gamers do not want exclusivity. They don't want DRM (and they deeply care about the subject) where the console crowd (heavy generalization incoming) just doesn't care about an whether a title is tied down with DRM because ownership is not a big deal for them.
I think Oculus the Innovator has begun to dig its own grave at this point.
I think timed exclusives are alright if occulus invested money into the game.
the permanent exclusivity is going to drive people away however, and will just lead to an arms race with software like revive.
Also theirs no reason why occulus can't just sell it through their store and make the money back that way and have other headsets be "unofficially" supported. This is PC, we like making things work when they're not supposed to work, look at Dolphin, PowerPC compile games for the Wii are not supposed to work on a x86 desktop but we told everyone fuck you we can and will do it.
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The plot thickens....