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Quest Techie: Link Brings A Buyer’s Market to Quest
Let me preface by saying this article is not intended to take food out of the mouths of Oculus developers. But consumers have a right (and dare I say a responsibility) to understand their rights and options as buyers. Thanks to Quest Link, the Oculus Quest store is no longer the only game in town.
For most people (until recently), the only outlet you could make Oculus Quest game purchases from was the Quest area of the Oculus Store.
Then came Virtual Desktop and other tools that allowed you to stream PC VR games from the Rift side and SteamVR client to your Quest (with a varying degree of very mixed results).
Many Oculus Go titles became cross platform (and cross-buy) opening up the options a bit more.
With the introduction of the Quest Link — no matter how crappy your WiFi network is, you can now play pretty much all PC VR games.
We now have effectively three stores for Quest games;
- Oculus Store on Quest
- Oculus Store on PC
- Steam/VR
Why this is important to you? The consumer? The gamer? Let’s look at them individually.