From GamesReviews:"PSVR2 is probably going to be a great piece of kit, but it doesn’t solve the biggest problem VR has going for it: the lack of stellar content."
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Shaz from GL: "Where Sony is ramping down support for PSVR2, and Apple are reconsidering their future with the Vision Pro, Meta and the Quest 3 continue to shine."
I'll admit that Facebook is doing more for VR than others. But they also have blown over 50 billion dollars so far and growing in R&D, building the meta verse, buying up exclusives and underpricing their products below build price, to kill competition in the stand alone space. Sony and Valve aren't willing to go into the red at an unheard level to capture the market. We know Sony could build a stand alone device that beats Quest just by the features in PS VR 2 and the new stand alone headset they built. But the new Sony would rather build a device they can profit from day one.
But, Sony so far has profited on hardware and on software. They just don't seem willing to spend the money on marketing, selling under build price or spending millions on making in-house VR exclusives for PS VR 2. Which sucks big time. They're just letting 3rd parties and indies run the show.
Article also doesn't mention that Apple's headset is more a developers product than a mass market item. To say they are looking into making a cheaper one for the next iteration is speaking the obvious. Duh. That was always the case. Build something the public sees as quality not can't afford, then make another that the masses can afford. TVs, cars, cellphones etc all were once expensive. Now, they're cheap to buy with many options to choose from. And Apple isn't even selling VP as a VR headset. I'm well aware that Apple's true intentions is to build a device that pushes AR with VR as an option. Not build a VR device. Because they know eventually that they want to replace the cellphone with AR glasses or an AR headset. If they cared about games, they would have launched as a gaming device.
Lastly, Facebook launched Quest 3 last year. But has not mentioned how many they sold up to this point. Why is that? Besides Quest 2 selling more by being cheap, the market can't move forward until they start selling more Quest 3 headsets than 2. Maybe the new exclusive Batman and Hitman games will help. But we'll see.
Not dead, but definitely on life support from the third party devs and PC crowd who may just purchase the headset.
Although I saw someone say that the module adapter will no allow haptics and adaptive triggers to work, but I don’t know if any of that is true.
Nope. Not yet.
It’s tough to say what its future will bring. There is still decent support. It seems to have sold decently too. Sony seems absent in a direct way though.
The issues Meta have is they are Meta. I'll never buy a Meta product, Every Quest headset they release is always a case of it's not quite there from a hardware perspective and the game content is mostly from indie devs. Selling what should be a AAA experience with C tier games is a non starter.
Meta is also Billions and billions in the hole in regards to VR. If Sony were to do what Meta has done, they'd be bankrupt
Meta is losing billions on a business that theh will probably walk away from like they did the Facebook phone. Temper your expectations of your investments in Meta’s hardware.
I do wish Sony would release more for PSVR. It’s a neat product, but they don’t support it much. It may have the same fate as the Vita.
I know it’s two completely separate products as Vita was stand alone, and PSVR is a companion to PS consoles. More 1st party support would really boost it though.
They are done supporting it. They're relying on pc to do it for them. Sony even paused production because it's not selling
They paused production to get rid of inventory, doesn’t mean the headset isn’t selling, it’s just not selling as fast as Sony thought it would. But with their half assed approach to the headset and lack of first party games, it’s not surprising, saddening, but not surprising.
Meta out here buying up all the exclusives, this is the only part of the gaming market where I feel exclusives should not be a thing since the market is “still in its infancy”.
That's exactly what it means... you think people are buying a headset with min support for the price of the console? It's done man. Sadly because like the vita the tech is good and deserved better
I own PS VR 1, and it is packed with tons of games to pick from in nearly every genre you could think of. While the technology may be rudimentary compared to newer headsets, it still works, and is fun to play, which is what matters most.
Its a shame that PS VR 2 is having such a slow start, because the tech behind it is brilliant. Its currently on sale for $100 USD off, that needs to be a permanent price drop.
We need more first party games on PS VR 2, the fact that Jim Ryan shut down Sony London Studios right before he left was moronic, they should have been upgrading their hit game Blood & Truth for PS VR 2! What a stupid decision.
The VR exclusive hero shooter, X8, has received a new update known as Freeplay Park, bringing a brand new social hub to the game.
this writer is stating the obvious. most of us know about it already
No it hasn't. But the time gets here. maybe it will have
It's partially true, I mean we get a handful of really good VR games each year but if you look at a place like Steam for example, most of the titles that sit atop the best seller list are quite old now. Plus you have the problem of not all games being available on every platform with Sony releasing exclusive stuff, Oculus releasing exclusive stuff, etc. Lone Echo 2 is a fantastic game, but naturally not everyone is going to be able to experience it. So you have a sort of niche market and you are further dividing it up with these exclusives. Makes it even harder to grow.
Well, but if Sony believes, then it will have good games
Just one big, lame article.
CES isn't a game show. Asking about games knowing they are not going to be divulging about until most likely after releases like Forbidden West, GOW and GT 7.
But we have clues there will be big games coming to it. Like GT 7 or GTA 5 or RE 8. Past history of getting games like Borderlands, Skyrim, Hitman collection, Iron Man, Astrobot...I don't even need to keep going. We know Sony's all in because the headset tells you. The fact that Jim Ryan stood in front of people stating that they are all in. That means games are coming. Bigger that before.
Sure there are a lot of Indy games. But there were some amazing ones. How can you as a gamer, downplay Indy games? I don't need to list them all. But to say the technology is not there yet is false. It can be pulled off. Just at what fidelity are we talking for big PS5 games? They would have to scale down from full PS5 games to work. Or change interactions.
But I'm going to tell you, an Indy game like SAIRENTO tells you almost anything a regular game can do, you can do it in VR. Sairento doesn't pull any punches when it comes to movement. Shooting, slashing, sliding, punching, stabbing, front flips, back flips, side flips, wall crawling, wall hanging, ground stomping, slow mo. With movement like that, there isn't a game you couldn't do. That's straight up Devil May Cry movement. Don't be down on Indy games. We seen that nonsense in the past.
PSVR 2 is going to show what a console can do for VR. 3D sound like Returnal, fast loading like Spider-Man, graphics like PS4 Pro or better, HDR, haptics found nowhere else, etc.
PSVR's big brother just walked into the room. You aren't RED E for em.