I could write a few words but since I often digress a "little bit"
I want to emphasize one important thing about this arcade, pinball, simracing building rigs: Don't get married and if you do, have a house for yourself! I'm not talking out of experience... I have a friend...
So this thread made me think. What is the best solution? If you're only interested in pinball or arcade (out of scope here) it should be obvious but what if like me, you simply game and want to have the best immersion possible? At this point in time, I think VR with a pedestal with wheels that can be locked to support a multi purpose controller (I think it is best to have both separated) might be the right answer.
Maybe i'm biased as I'm only lacking the pedestal but still...
Pros:
- The physicality is there for both pinball in VR and TV for MAME
- avoid bunch of settings and setups in pinball multimonitor plus/or DMD probably
- doesn't waste (i'm imagining wife wording it :D) as much space as a real cabinet
- it's moveable (eventually portable!)
- pedestal can serve a storage for the headset and wireless keyboard/mouse
- you have a multipurpose gaming rig
- If you DIY it is so rewarding in the end! The best of it all is enjoying the fruits of your labour :)
Cons:
- This is an expensive hobby. period. I think my penultimate upgrade; the KL25Z for nudging was the least expensive thing I've bought bar (some) cables!
- it is a lot of work and you have to do it all; building, installing setting up, testing, updating, ...
- the support is called <insert your tube/search engine of choice here>
- lots of time reading, searching, learning (ok, this is a mixed one; learning is never bad but the huge amount of time spent searching is)
- not as cool as having a dedicated setups
Did I forget anything? In any case that pedestal will surely be my next move. Or maybe I can find something nice that can support my controller and the wife likes :D
Free piece of advice, PLAN (unlike me) so you don't end up moving and transporting stuff from one side to another. Hopefully it won't end up a permanently temporary situation
And plan for the future. I ended up like this also because when I started many years ago I did not think about moving to another place. so yeah, anything can happen so PLAN AHEAD and then some...