HTC Vive sells twice as well as Oculus Rift

When it comes to sales figures for PlayStation VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and the like, manufacturers are often still very cautious. Tim Sweeney, the head of Epic Gameswhich has created major brands such as "Unreal" and "Gears of War", has revealed in an interview that HTC Vive the competitor Oculus Rift 2:1 in terms of global sales figures. This is certainly a statement that Oculus and its owner Facebook will not like very much.

According to Tim Sweeney, the advantage is that HTC Vive is the more open platform. If you install the Oculus drivers, you can initially only use the Oculus Store. To change this, you have to dig through the menus, he says. In principle, everyone does this, says Tim Sweeney, but this policy sends out the wrong signal to developers. Because it says: "We'll keep an eye on you and we'll control things."

Tim Sweeney believes that the open platforms will win in the end because of the better choice of software. If his information is correct, then HTC Vive is on the right track. Tim Sweeney has spoken out against closed systems (in his opinion) several times in the past, including Microsoft's Windows Store and the Universal Windows Platform (UWP).

Source: Glixel