> The Quest is underpowered to run any of the truly compelling VR experiences.

It is, but it compensates by offering good enough experience while being untethered, self-contained and quick to start up. It may not matter for teenagers with expensive gaming rigs, but it matters for working adults with families, who otherwise don't have time and space to justify a VR gaming PC build.

You can make the same arugment for gaming on smartphones, yet it's a huge and growing market. The truth is, most people don't care about the latest and best technology. They care about great games, and often times the best games don't need the cutting edge hardware (see Minecraft, Fornite).

Meanwhile, I've been playing the Echo VR alpha on my Quest (not Link) and it's fucking great.

We just gonna ignore it runs Beatsaber and VRChat two arguably much more important and popular VR apps than that janky Skyrim port.

PCVR is an evolutionary dead end, few adults want giant PC towers in their homes anymore. Even when I demoed PCVR with amazing experiences like Lone Echo people lost interest when I told them no, it wont run on your macbook, you need a tower PC.

Yet I demoed them Beatsaber on the quest and a guy ordered one within a minute of taking the headset off, he demoed it at a family BBQ and two of his relatives bought it after.

Can anyone actually run No Man's Sky without tonnes of reprojection?

It's also untethered, which is a far bigger deal than you think. I tried playing tethered and really didn't enjoy it that much, but wireless? That gets used multiple times a week.