By 1994, Doom was THE GAME everyone was playing. I bring this up to compare Wolfenstein 3D, which was released in May 1992. You say sales are exploding by 127% year over year, but given that they started from a low number, that's really not meaningful to anyone who understands statistics.Īlso, I am not so sure VR is THAT much different than typical 3D games, so I am not ready to blame a developer learning curve. If this was a revolutionary hit, headsets would be flying off the shelves. However, it's also almost 2 years old now. TBH, I haven't played Half Life Alyx, so perhaps playing it will make me see your enthusiasm. I'd love to be wrong, but still not seeing it. But put on a VR headset, and suddenly you're experiencing something totally new. The graphics are better, but you stop noticing that after a few minutes. Playing games on a PS5 just isn't that different from a PS3. VR is the first technology in years that really feels like a new generation in gaming. Until you try it, you can't appreciate how revolutionary it is. IDC reports that Q2 2021 sales were up 126.8% compared to the previous year. I didn't find up to date sales numbers in a quick search, but according to this report from more than a year ago, Beat Saber and Half Life Alyx had each sold well over $60 million. "If it was meant to be a hit, they would have had one by now?" There have been tons of hit VR games. Making one financially feasible would tend to make the other feasible as well.
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You run the nuke full tilt 24 hours a day and save the surplus energy you generate in off-peak hours to sell when prices are better.Ī lot of the things you'd need to do for crash program in renewables would be exactly the same things you'd need for a crash program in nuclear. Curiously, an attempt to solve climate change with *nuclear* has the opposite problem (nukes are inefficient to run at anything less than full output), yet has the *very same* solution: grid storage. In general renewables are a problem for grid operators ultimately the answer to that problem will be grid storage. So the answer is to be prepared for that. Sure, if your demand *unexpectedly* goes down to zero and you are *unprepared* for that, the grid could collapse.
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But it's not a problem beyond the scope of human ingenuity. There's no question that rooftop solar is a PITA for grid operators. I think he believes that all power plants operate in load-following mode, possibly because he thinks that running a grid where many sources can't ramp up and down with demand would have to be incredibly complicated.