The Order: 1886 studio Ready at Dawn is creating exclusive VR game for Oculus

VB:
With new platforms come new alliances. Ready At Dawn Studios made The Order: 1886 for Sony’s PlayStation 4 earlier this year. So you might expect the Irvine, Calif.-based studio to make a game for the Sony Morpheus virtual-reality headset.

But Ready at Dawn is prepping an exclusive title for the rival Oculus Rift, which is debuting early next year from Facebook’s Oculus VR division. Ru Weerasuriya, the president and chief creative officer of Ready At Dawn, announced the game on Thursday at the Oculus press briefing.

[no_more_heroes]

If true, then this might give credence to recent rumors that Sony dropped them.

[Majin-vegeta]

Sony never owned them...

[no_more_heroes]

I know. I meant as a go-to 2nd party dev.

[starchild]

That's completely true, Sony never owned them. They did have a tight relationship with Sony, though, and most of their games were exclusive to Sony platforms, and this approach appears to be changing.

Personally, as I've said since The Order 1886 came out, I thought it was a decently good game. It needed a little more depth and more exciting gameplay scenarios, but I thought the story and presentation was quite good. And the gameplay wasn't "bad", it was merely kind of average. But I do think this studio has a lot of potential.

[_-EDMIX-_]

@Majin-Vegeta agreed.

The lolz just keep on coming.

@N0_more- " I meant as a go-to 2nd party dev." Sony doesn't make that choice though lol.

They are an independent team, The Order is Sony's IP...

They were contracted to do The Order...thats it.

Sony doesn't own them, has no choice over where they go etc. Mind you, this just means they are also working on something else, I don't think it means they are some how ONLY working on that and not working on anything else.

[Sevir]

People said the same thing after they did the Wii port of Okami... And then they ended up launching a new game. Sony didn't drop them as a partner, I mean come on they just launched a game to moderate commercial success... You expect them to announce an new game for PS4 5 months later?

People got all up in arms when Insomniac announced they were no longer solely doing PS exclusives, especially after how RESISTANCE 3 performed commercially, and after they went multiple platform... And look where we are... People just need to chill.

[Pandamobile]

Or they dropped Sony.

[x_RadicalAura_x]

Yeah, just as much as Insomniac "dropped" Sony by making Sunset Overdrive exclusive to the Xbox One. Yet they're still doing R&C exclusive for the PS4. Business is business. "Dropped" in this context is a stupid word. No one owns anybody.

[Pandamobile]

I never said they were owned by anyone. I was just countering the first guy's comment.

Though they've clearly ended whatever exclusivity deal they had with Sony if they're making a game for Oculus VR.

[LexHazard79]

Sony never owned them..lol

Edit: my bad Majin didnt see your comment..

[donthate]

It wouldn't matter, as The Order 1886 wasn't good at all so I am moderately excited for this.

[showtimefolks]

Best of luck ready at dawn. Great memories so far for Playstation ganers, now I hope more gamers get to enjoy your games

As a playstation gamer thank you. Part of Me wanted Sony to acquire you but I respect the fact you guys want to stay independent

Best of luck again

[MrDead]

Why would they bother making a multiplatform engine that the Order was created on if they were going to stay with Sony? RAD wants to be independent.

[Peace_Love_and_FPS]

Being independent would be good for them, oculus is giving money to indie studios that develope for the rift too so it makes sense. I didn't know that it was a multiplatform engine, could be interesting to see if they bring it to Morpheus too, maybe even Vive as well!

[UltraNova]

@Peace

"...oculus is giving money to indie studios that develope for the rift too so it makes sense."

If they are to succeed they need many exclusives, aka reasons people need to be convinced to buy their VR unit. I can assure you that the money they give to indies for developing Rift games are not free and surely come with some kind of exclusivity deal to boot.

[DevilOgreFish]

Kojima should team up with RAD and help put them in a direction.

[someOnecalled]

This mean PS fanboys will change their tune about them soon.

[krypt1983]

@starchild no sony owned every game they made and like insomniac they are feed up with that shit and want there own ip and now that's what they are doing by going multi plat...

[sonerone]

Ready at dawn...

[Becuzisaid]

Ready FOR Dawn?

[kraenk12]

The quality of news on here is really stellar (Ready For Dawn)!

[guyman]

Probably gonna suck

[IamTylerDurden1]

I love how articles get approved that can't even get the developer name right.

It's Ready AT Dawn not "Ready FOR Dawn"

Obviously the person who wrote the headline is a huge Sony 2nd party and 1886 fan. <--- Sarcasm

Ready at Dawn was never owned by Sony and Since the Paul Sams from Blizzard came in to head the business dept & be ceo RaD has had an entirely different outlook forced upon them by Mr. Sams. I'm not a fan of Sams and his no loyalty corporate greed mentality but after RaD put so much into 1886 and it wasn't the smash hit they expected, i guess they felt they needed to shake things up. Oh well, we have loyal 2nd parties like Quantic Dream.

[krypt1983]

Hate to break it to you but Mr.Sam only helped blizzard keep WoW a money machine and the best mmo ever made and still the best mmo to date and it's been out what 11 yrs. I hate WoW but there is no denying the guy knows how to run a company and keep things relevant ..

[WeAreLegion]

Why not both devices?

[OB1Biker]

Yea Im a bit surprised that Rad and Insomiac are working with Oculus for an exclusive.
Hopefully when Sony announces the studios working on Morpheus they will be in the list on other projects too.

[Eonjay]

I keep hearing about games that wil be exclusive to one VR device or another on PC. I think this is the wrong approach because you are asking PC gamers to buy multiple VR devices. On PS4 it is different because there will only be one headset.

I feel like PC VR needs to come together in some manner to have an open VR standard.

What we have now is a situation that would be like if certain games only worked on certain GPUs... its too fragmented.

[Pandamobile]

99% of VR games will work across difference devices. It's just going to be the games that are partnered with Oculus that won't with other devices (and vice versa).

Knowing how crafty the PC market is, that limitation won't last long. There's zero reason why someone with a Vive wouldn't be able to play a game designed for the Oculus Rift.

[Peace_Love_and_FPS]

Exactly, their motion controls can be remapped, they function in similar ways, there's already 3rd party motion controls on the market that will most likely be compatible.

If not, mods.

[Bolts]

They're exclusive to OR in the same way that the Witcher 3 is exclusive to Nvidia. In other words it's no big deal.

[jay2]

NOT HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!! You were working on PS4, you could have made a game for PS realeye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Crummybear]

Ready at Dawn is definitely a unique studio. Although The Order didn't turn out to be stellar, you can't say that it didn't have character. I think they just need to add a little more depth to the gameplay with their next title, but I feel they'll probably go the way of studios like Quantic Dream.

[davemyrose92]

Whatever as someone who fully loves almost all Sony games, I was hugelyyy disappointed in the order, it has been my most unliked game this gen, and that's sad , BTW I thought knack was pretty good, but I did not like the order at all, I love werewolves and shooters, although the world was good, it felt like a hold hand experience with a joke of a 3rd half I mean seriously, the last 75 percent of that game felt sooo rushed uhhhh

[ScorpiusX]

Looks like Oculus maybe getting my money . If all these developers are on board. Love how my spending of my money annoys the juvenile mentality. Lol

[davemyrose92]

Idk I wanna get into vr but there's sooo many new games on consoles I'd rather spend money on, I mean theres like 20 games I want coming in the next 6 months to a yr, I think my money and free time are filled just on games

[Major_Bogart]

Thanks for the warning

[Artemus]

Let's hope it's not another "all pretty graphics and no substance" kind of game.

[Spotie]

When did they make one of those?

[GranTurismoFan]

Best of luck to RAD, their GoW games on PSP were phenomenal.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

The Order probably should have been VR exclusive anyway. Probably would have worked out better for that type of interactive experience.

[davemyrose92]

Yeaaa wow your totally right

[WeaseL]

Facebook throwing money at devs not surprising seeing how much they have invested in it.

[captainexplosion]

Disappointed that Ready at Dawn and Insomniac (my fav dev) are making Oculus games rather than Morpheus games. Very odd.

[Bolts]

Drop the fanboy act. They're going where the money just like every business out there.

[captainexplosion]

Fanboy act? I'm far from a fanboy. I'm just not a PC gamer. I would think the money would be with Morpheus tbh.

[WizzroSupreme]

That's really sweet. It'll be like the movie-game they always wanted to make.

[DDOS-DelDaemonicOSes]

Please don't bring more penis, man ass, and "blow my butt naked son's brains out" finales from The Order over to Oculus VR. Have more of an idea of your target audience, and especially THINK (STRAIGHT) about how those images will be in *VR*.

[mochachino]

Damn, I was really looking forward to another The Order. The story got really interesting towards the end. A few improvements and the game would be great.