The Oculus Quest Will Compete With The Nintendo Switch, The Father Of FPS Games Claims

General news News 09/29/2018

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John Carmack, who has joined Oculus a few years ago after a long tenure at id Software, believes the Oculus Quest will be a successful product.

Carmack, the chief technical officer at Oculus, told the following to GamesIndustry regarding the first „all-in-one VR device:” „The Oculus Quest is in the neighbourhood of the power of a previous generation console, like Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, just in terms of CPU and GPU and what you can expect to do on it. It is not possible to take a game that was done at a high-quality level – like a AAA title – for that generation and expect it to look like that in VR. It’s too many more pixels to wind up rendering.

Realistically, we’re going to end up competing with the Nintendo Switch as a device. I don’t think there’s going to be that many people who say „I’m not going to buy a PlayStation 4, I’m going to buy a Quest instead.” I do stand by my statement that the core magic of any Rift experience can be bought to this, but you can’t ignore the difference in processing power… There’s almost a factor of 100 difference in the total power [between a high-end PC and a Quest].”

Carmack’s thoughts make sense: the Oculus Quest will be portable similarly to the Nintendo Switch, but we have yet to see the device’s success – it will launch next Spring, for 400 dollars.

Source: WCCFTech

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