vr has what? 1%? 2% of steam users? games like star citizen and elite dangerous throw it in and it much harder to code. i dont think the niche argument holds because if 10% of that 5% actually buy the game your profitable and it's an additional market not the only market.
@jak
this is more like a car company advertising their driverless car and adding the hardware then not programming it and selling it without the feature.
This is more like a fully functioning driverless car that has some cools features that require extra markings on the roadways to work, and the markings never being added to the roads. The driverless car (the 1000 series gpu) will 100% work out of the gate with the road markings (game with SMP) if the road had it implemented.
Id say <1% and even then the only good VR expirances are ones where your seated. Stuff like car racing, space fighter etc are awesome.
Where you a first person view standing on your legs its all fucked up because you cant walk around normally or you hit a wall in your house. Or if you simulate walking in the VR you either fall over from the biological balance systems in your head that use vision / ears to keep you standing or your get motion sickness.
According to the steam hardware survey, the overall percentile of Steam users with a VR Headset is 0.37%. That is 0.23% Vive, 0.12% Rift consumer, and 0.02% Rift DK2.
SMP will be a thing In a few generations more when the mass's have a pascal or greater cards in there system. Its not like a dead technology just bleeding edge and as the steam stats above stated 2.6% of people could use it now. When that 2.6% becomes significant to game developers. They will use it.
this is more like a car company advertising their driverless car and adding the hardware then not programming it and selling it without the feature.
No, because car is a whole product - and you are not allowed to install your own software on it. And PCs even if bought as a complete hardware with OS still are expected to only allow to run additional software that you install on it.
And you even must pay for that additional software (games).
you are right my analogy has holes in it and isnt quite right. thecaveman's analogy is much better and more accurate.
im not a car person
If you play iRacing with multi-monitor then you can enable SMP. :P