Why Oculus is Helping Fund Rift-Exclusive Games

There's a very specific reason why Oculus is investing in its own Rift-exclusives.

Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey recently explained in a Reddit AMA why the company was opting to fund exclusives, outlining the Oculus Rift as more of a platform than just a hardware peripheral.

"These exclusive titles, in many ways, essentially are first party titles," he wrote. "They are funded by us, we have our own staff working on them, and they are optimized around our launch timeline and tech stack. The only difference is that we chose to work with third parties to make them successful instead of competing with them through our own first party teams."

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