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Telling someone three years before you release a game that you are going to put the ability to land on asteroids and make windows on starships transparent is not a "promise". People blasted Sean Murray for doing exactly what he said which was

"And when we ship the game not everything will be possible. But this is a game we will be making for quite a while, even after it comes out."

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMan...

"As for what it isn't? According to Murray, it might not be the game all the various trailers released for the PS4 and PC exclusive made it out to be."

'That means this maybe isn't the game you imagined from those trailers,' he writes. 'If you hoped for things like PvP multiplayer or city building, piloting freighters, or building civilizations ... that isn't what NMS is. Over time it might become some of those things through updates.'

http://www.gamenguide.com/arti...

"It’s not really a multiplayer game, that’s not really the way to think about it. There are infinitesimal chances, very, very small chances of you even coming across a place that another player has been to . . . The most likely thing that is going to happen is you are going to come across a planet and some other players has been there and they’ve named that planet and the creatures, and I’m sure they’ve given it a good name."

https://gamerant.com/no-mans-s...

"To be super clear - No Man's Sky is not a multiplayer game. Please don't go in looking for that experience."

https://twitter.com/nomanssky/...

I have a PSVR as well, and Resident Evil 7, and I tell you it is awesome. Are the graphics not quite as good as on the TV? Sure - especially since I only have the PS4 and not the PS4 Pro. (supposedly the PS4 Pro makes a difference with the graphics in RE7 - https://gamerant.com/resident-...). But regardless, the game is so immersive with VR that you almost feel lost in it. I find myself crouching and peeking around a corner to see if an enemy is there. With the 3D sound coming to the headphones, it sounds like you're there as well. I echo the sentiments on the Battlefront VR mission as well - my first time through I said "woah!" several times, and looked out the right side of my cockpit as my craft circled a star destroyer - I mean, truly amazing. I think the other challenge with VR is that some people just cannot play for extended periods of time - I don't have that problem; I played RE7 for several hours the other night (in fact I was shocked at the time when I finally disconnected - you lose time when you're in!) Finally, there is some inconvenience with plugging in the headset, and even wearing the headset (sheesh I look ridiculous!), but that's the price to play. All of these issues will lessen over time - graphics will get better, the headset will give you a better field of view, the headsets will be wireless, the headsets will morph into a direct neural link (ok, maybe that's a stretch), but this is the wave of the future.

I believe there are PLENTY of other non-Mac computers that don't meet Oculus' specs. In fact, "Earlier this year, Nvidia stated that roughly only 13 million computers – less than 1 percent of all computers on the planet – are powerful enough to smoothly run VR games.". So now what?

Which completely misses his point, i.e., that there is no Mac at any price or spec powerful enough to support Oculus. We aren't talking about cheap boxes here.

“It just boils down to the fact that Apple doesn’t prioritize high-end GPUs. You can buy a $6,000 Mac Pro with the top-of-the-line AMD FirePro D700, and it still doesn’t match our recommended spec. So if they prioritize higher-end GPUs like they used to for a while back in the day, we’d love to support Mac. But right now, there’s just not a single machine out there that supports it.”

I don't have a dog in this fight but... from your link: Oculus Founder: Rift Will Come To Mac If Apple "Ever Releases a Good Computer"

1. Oculus is full of shit.

2. I believe there are PLENTY of other non-Mac computers that don't meet Oculus' specs. In fact, "Earlier this year, Nvidia stated that roughly only 13 million computers – less than 1 percent of all computers on the planet – are powerful enough to smoothly run VR games.". So now what?

One of my favorites with the "Xbox - " commands was a dude with gamertag "XboxSignout". He would then proceed to troll everyone in CoD, then as soon as they called out his name they'd inadvertently drop themselves from the game. Check it out here , there's also "XboxTurnOff" and a few others.

It might be a little trickier to weave "Hey Cortana" into a gamertag, but i'm sure someone somewhere is smart enough to figure it out, and someone else is dumb enough to fall for it.

And then your studio shits out something like Assassin's Creed: Unity.

I don't know where you live, but Microsoft's now 7-year-old console outsold Nintendo's brand new one by a 2-to-1 margin over Thanksgiving weekend: http://gamerant.com/xbox-360-wii-u-black-friday-sales/