Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
7 Mar 2022 Acquired SONY
“I suspect what that means is that he would have to believe the long-term future of VR is actually in gaming, not in the lifestyle, which, if Apple comes out with something, it's going to be for all over the place, at least all over your house.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 7 Mar 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- SONY
Transcript context
…It's just kind of hard to get super excited about anything in the future for Sony right now. Obviously, the PlayStation has been this incredible success. I don't think Microsoft is going to completely take the market from them now or possibly ever. The imaging sensing business is also incredibly impressive but they're a component now. What would Ibuka and Morita be thinking about the current state of the company? I bet Ibuka would be excited about the PSVR 2. I think right now, this current generation, the Oculus Quest 2 is much newer than the PSVR, but I think it's massively outselling it. If you were going to get excited about something, I think it would be, there I say, a Metaverse bet on them producing a good VR system. I suspect what that means is that he would have to believe the long-term future of VR is actually in gaming, not in the lifestyle, which, if Apple comes out with something, it's going to be for all over the place, at least all over your house. That's a good point. With sentiment about Meta and Oculus, yeah, there's a real opportunity for Sony there.…
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