{"id":30825,"date":"2017-09-24T15:45:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T14:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ps4pro.eu\/?p=30825"},"modified":"2017-09-25T17:59:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T16:59:36","slug":"sony-doesnt-feel-comfortable-as-vr-market-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2017\/09\/24\/sony-doesnt-feel-comfortable-as-vr-market-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Doesn&#8217;t Feel Comfortable As VR Market Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They don&#8217;t want to dominate the fresh market of virtual reality.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Andrew House<\/strong><\/em>, chief executive of Sony Interactive Entertainment, had a short interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/us-sony-playstation\/vr-needs-more-competition-to-build-audience-top-player-sony-says-idUKKCN1BX10M\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Reuters<\/span><\/a>, where he said the following: \u201eI\u2018m not entirely comfortable being the market leader in <em><strong>VR<\/strong><\/em> by such a margin that seems to be happening right now. With such a brand new category you want a variety of platforms all doing well to create that rising tide and create the audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House&#8217;s comment is referring to International Data Corporation (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS43021317\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">IDC<\/span><\/a>) and its report regarding virtual and augmented reality of Q2 2017. It says that year-on-year, the market saw a 25.5 percent growth, but it adds that the <em><strong>VR market<\/strong><\/em> growth is slower than other technologies that launched recently and that try-before-buy still raises a challenge altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the report brings up Samsung as the market leader, but Sony might not consider Gear VR as competition, and instead, they&#8217;d look at the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift as their rivals, and <em><strong>Sony<\/strong><\/em> is ahead of both companies with its half a million sales in the past three months&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/us-sony-playstation\/vr-needs-more-competition-to-build-audience-top-player-sony-says-idUKKCN1BX10M\">Reuters<\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS43021317\">IDC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They don&#8217;t want to dominate the fresh market of virtual reality. Andrew House, chief executive of Sony Interactive Entertainment, had a short interview with Reuters, where he said the following: \u201eI\u2018m not entirely comfortable being the market leader in VR by such a margin that seems to be happening right now. With such a brand new category you want a variety of platforms all doing well to create that rising tide and create the audience.\u201d House&#8217;s comment is referring to International Data Corporation (IDC) and its report regarding virtual and augmented reality of Q2 2017. It says that year-on-year, the market saw a 25.5 percent growth, but it adds that the VR market growth is slower than other technologies that launched recently and that try-before-buy&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2017\/09\/24\/sony-doesnt-feel-comfortable-as-vr-market-leader\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[1764,74,6733],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sony Doesn&#039;t Feel Comfortable As VR Market Leader - theGeek.games<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"theGeek.games\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2017\/09\/24\/sony-doesnt-feel-comfortable-as-vr-market-leader\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sony Doesn&#039;t Feel Comfortable As VR Market Leader - 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