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Nicholas Sutrich

Whether Meta ends up as the Atari of VR is TBD, but the 2026 parallels to 1983 are becoming clearer for one big reason

A photo of a Meta Quest 3 taken by Nicholas Sutrich alongside a stock photo of an Atari 2600.
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In his weekly column, Android Central Senior Content Producer Nick Sutrich delves into all things VR, from new hardware to new games, upcoming technologies, and so much more.

The video game crash of 1983 is legendary. Even if you weren't alive at the time (which I wasn't), you likely know that a perfect storm of overinvestment and poor quality games forced the entire video game industry into a deep depression. This phenomenon has long been studied and predicted to recur, and it's entirely possible that we just witnessed history repeating itself last month.

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