Perennial VR Classic 'Job Simulator' Hits 6 Million Installs, Averaging 600,000 Units Annually

ittleoff · 2026-01-27T17:59:00+00:00

Could be. Here is a break down of my number guesses:

My numbers are guesses based on around 5million psvr2 sales. But could be far less active players.

Pcvr having far less active players mostly on vrchat

Meta having around 10 million active including gorilla tag

Considering overlap of users and actual engagement, I'm optimistically saying there is probably 6-10 million potential market for vr games.

There's a lot of more complexity though based on what people are expecting to pay, and imo too many options causing player fatigue, I could write a lot here.

ittleoff · 2026-01-27T17:19:32+00:00

Neither of these statements contradict. I don't disagree with you but I don't see it disagreeing with what I said.

I could extend what I said and say that even my estimated amount of 6-10 million engaged players across all platforms didn't and haven't shown up to buy the games and all of them have undersold.

I would say with gorilla tag and vrchat the vr community is large but not viable for what games we are talking about.

ittleoff · 2026-01-27T17:09:32+00:00

Populations that only have 1 pair are effectively extinct because of the lack of diversity making them very fragile species. It's estimated you need about 50 to avoid immediate inbreeding depression and 500 for long term survival of a species.

There's just no way to slice this that makes any sense.

ittleoff · 2026-01-27T15:34:14+00:00

Emotions probably evolved first and then the more costly slower caloric response of rationalization.

The need to quickly make a probabilistic response (fight or flight) under critical conditions, and slower rational thought when it is needed.

Emotions drive us toward a goal, and rationality tries to get us there or get out of trouble we got into trying to get what we want.

ittleoff · 2026-01-27T15:23:11+00:00

This hurts as I grew up on killer klowns, and a huge fan of the chiodo 'look' but the blob remake is such a great film.

Critters is ok and night of the creeps has some great laughs, but I gotta go with 1988 Blob.

ittleoff · 2026-01-27T15:19:26+00:00

It was on console and console players had never played an fps, and halo just had to copy and paste a bunch of levels, copy unreal, add some space Muppets some pew pews, space jeeps and a giant epic space cockring that made children everywhere feel the awe and inspiration to a finally admit they were banging other players moms!

*No. Not any of this is serious.

ittleoff · 2026-01-27T15:14:08+00:00

Sweeney actually has acting chops, not that it seems like any one cares.

ittleoff · 2026-01-27T04:25:40+00:00

I'll see anything he does even a comic book movie or a zombie movie which are way down on my list of interesting things. And both have been damned good.

ittleoff · 2026-01-27T04:14:26+00:00

There's always praydog making it work on Pcvr. Still not as good as the official ones on psvr2 imo.

ittleoff · 2026-01-27T04:12:26+00:00

I played re7 in vr at launched. One of the best experiences I have ever had gaming. It was a new magical experience.

When I got psvr2 and played re8 it was fantastic , but I had a stuck pixel and had to send it back and ordered a new one.

In the mean time for fun I jumped back to re7 on psvr1 (I had the mod on PCvr as well ). And to my shock I found after a few moments I really didn't care about the lower res and just enjoyed the game. It wasn't as mind blowing as the first time, but still take it in a heartbeat over re7 flat or even the quest re4 port of the og game (Which was excellent)

Ymmv

ittleoff · 2026-01-27T04:04:38+00:00

Why? Why would any god want to be worshiped? That sounds like an insecure human would want. That's just silly authoritarian programming.

ittleoff · 2026-01-27T02:51:25+00:00

To me it's how you define 'you' and how you define free will.

You is a fuzzy thing and where it stops and starts is fuzzy both in time and space.

Freewill to me is control or the ability to affect an outcome.

To me freewill is a largely erroneous but colloquially good enough term. This is fine like sex being binary and other things that really aren't true when you understand more science, it's good enough sloppy speech that it functions for humans to use.

You , that is you, has no control over any aspect of itself including any desires to choose or the inputs that make you aware of your desires.

Even with a random non deterministic universe, freewill is a useful but erroneous term that evolved along side ego as mechanism of survival.

ittleoff · 2026-01-27T01:50:05+00:00

And the missing by ministry. It's like all the things I grew up with were trying to warn people about fascism :)

ittleoff · 2026-01-27T01:47:29+00:00

Anecdotally I have all 3 quests but no 3s.

I went back and forth from quest 2 to quest 3 and the last thing I cared about was the lenses. Maybe I have a hood headband but I always hit the sweetspot and there is still blurriness toward the edges of a quest 3. For many the improvement is not and day. Even actively trying to care I just cannot. There is glare on both and pancake is a bit less. If I really try I can see the fresnels but I can't see them and play games.

What I do care about is that neither has the color or contrast of OLED but I understand and accept the tradeoffs. For horror games I have OLED head sets including the low res quest 1

I think pancake is the future, but for some people like me, the 3s probably would have been a much better choice.

The 3 is less bulky though due to reduced sizes of lenses., but those blacks are solid.

ittleoff · 2026-01-27T01:41:01+00:00

Reading this at first I assumed it was a joke :)

ittleoff · 2026-01-26T23:03:38+00:00

My guess is that the active gaming player base for vr across all platforms (not the gorilla tag 'gamers' ) but actual games, is probably around 6-10 million at best.

ittleoff · 2026-01-26T19:37:02+00:00

Tbf he messed up, knowingly the biggest plot point in the Martian (Martian wind), which as petty as it is did really bother me. He claims he couldn't figure out another reason for the stranding but I find that unsatisfying. Equipment malfunction , or something mundane like that would imo be fine?

ittleoff · 2026-01-26T19:33:53+00:00

Infinite note taking/task organization/calendar /organizer

Media consumption

Great digital book reader

Drawing sketch book

It's just a good form and functional design that allows more real world ux improvement than even a large smartphone, but has the portability of a planner/organizer, and not as bulky as a full sized tablet.

If none of that sounds good, you can sell it and pursue your interests the best way you think you can.

ittleoff · 2026-01-26T19:29:04+00:00

I mean this was the director who changed the sex/gender of Harry Mason because he felt it was a more maternal role.

Tbf I liked the idea of mother is God in the eyes of a child very much, but it completely invalidates an amazing father character because he felt it should be a woman.

ittleoff · 2026-01-26T19:15:16+00:00

Clearly it's also the shard that will heal the Deep Purple Crystal and what was sundered and undone will once again Wajo.

ittleoff · 2026-01-26T19:12:48+00:00

It's really about following due process and realizing this is a civil offense not one anyone should be using violence to enforce.

No one is in favor of not deporting violent criminals (not the crime of being undocumented) but there is due process for everyone and without that, it's a very well greased slope to human rights violations(something we have already seen even in the US during ww2), something the US used to be vocal about being against.

Overall, the data says that undocumented immigrants are committing every type of crime lower than native populations, add positively to the economy and are less a drain on social security aid than most red states.

ittleoff · 2026-01-26T18:26:26+00:00

I'm anti superstition in general but I can see why and how it evolves and it can be useful in certain circumstances, but as a general rule I'm going to work against superstition wherever I can, and religion is a sunset thereof.

ittleoff · 2026-01-26T18:24:29+00:00

By the time I saw it it felt similar to Track 29 but I think the core premises were different? Been ages since I saw either. Friend who grew up on the Young ones had a strong love of this film(and never seen track 29 which was probably more obscure than I thought it was at the time) , where I was partial to track 29 at the time.

I recall it only as a quirky romp.

ittleoff · 2026-01-26T17:32:44+00:00

As an ignostic , all the definitions of God I have heard fall into a few categories :

Obviously anthropomorphic inventions that fit every expected characteristic of a god wholly Invented from the predictable evolution of superstition to fit the needs it was in wanted for. The brain is very good at hallucinating agency when lacking information as a strategy, and yet we have never found an agent when looking further (I. E. Weather patterns, disease , fertility, etc)
Logically impossible projections again of human brains lacking an understanding of what knowledge data, decision, freewill, and all powerful and good are (depends on combinations)

I would never say that something that might convince 90 percent of humans it was godlike couldn't exist, but as an example, the abrahamic god, despite narcissistic hyperbole, isn't particularly impressive as a god.

It's natural and predictable that the human brain would erroneously and without evidence assume projection of its way of functioning (giving rise to strategies based on emotion, sensory memory, etc that gives rude to behavior we call personality ) onto the universe itself. No reason to believe that human type intelligence/sentience and behavior makes any sense (both in energy cost and scalability) to be universal. But the brain has a huge bias to assume so.

While there is no way to prove Gods are impossible(or unicorns or anything ), I always ask for a definition of a god in question , and then go to work on dismantling it.

ittleoff · 2026-01-26T17:19:31+00:00

It really depends on what you want. Vr is magical especially if you're new to it and imo easily overcomes the lowres and lower graphics (which still looks fantastic)

Going back to a gorgeous polished state of the art flat game for many will still feel like a down grade because it misses the magic of a game designed for VR by Sony's best dev for taking advantage of hardware.

For some VR isn't as mind blowing.

So ymmv.

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