<story><title>This year, Oculus has sold more headsets than Microsoft did Xboxes</title><url>https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/1471555718746558466</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>Measuring Oculus sales through mobile app downloads, lol...&lt;p&gt;I have 2 Oculuses and have the app downloaded on 5 devices at least.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I feel like the popularity of Oculus is pretty limited. Unlike consoles, you have to be pretty physically active to play most games on it. I do think it&amp;#x27;s an excellent fitness device, though.&lt;p&gt;I think Google made a huge mistake discontinuing Cardboard&amp;#x2F;Daydream. They should bring it back. It really doesn&amp;#x27;t make that much sense to have another device when phones already are more or less as powerful as an Oculus anyway. Not to mention that the Quest runs on Android to begin with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cbozeman</author><text>&amp;gt; I think Google made a huge mistake discontinuing &amp;lt;insert great products here&amp;gt;.&lt;p&gt;Google collectively as a company suffers from some kind of mental illness whereby if 20% of the world&amp;#x27;s population doesn&amp;#x27;t immediately love their product, it&amp;#x27;s considered a massive failure and abandoned in short order, instead of lovingly worked on until improved enough to be truly popular.</text></comment>
<story><title>This year, Oculus has sold more headsets than Microsoft did Xboxes</title><url>https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/1471555718746558466</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>Measuring Oculus sales through mobile app downloads, lol...&lt;p&gt;I have 2 Oculuses and have the app downloaded on 5 devices at least.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I feel like the popularity of Oculus is pretty limited. Unlike consoles, you have to be pretty physically active to play most games on it. I do think it&amp;#x27;s an excellent fitness device, though.&lt;p&gt;I think Google made a huge mistake discontinuing Cardboard&amp;#x2F;Daydream. They should bring it back. It really doesn&amp;#x27;t make that much sense to have another device when phones already are more or less as powerful as an Oculus anyway. Not to mention that the Quest runs on Android to begin with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Closi</author><text>Well Zuck has said that Oculus Quest 2 sales are over 10 million devices, and the graph claims 2020 + 2021 is 12 million devices.&lt;p&gt;Considering then that the Quest 2 came out October 2020 it doesn’t seem like the graph can be far wrong. As the devices are very close to each other on the graph though it’s hard to say if the headline is correct.</text></comment>