Hellblade VR Edition Announced for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive; Free with Steam Version

Today Ninja Theory announced that Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice will get a virtual reality mode on July 31st.

[Team_Litt]

Well this is awkward. There's a platform missing here.
I say release it, this game is already a success on the PS4, it makes good business sense to get in on that PSVR fanbase money.

[Jinger]

Will that fanbase now support it though after the backlash PS4 fans gave them when they went MS exclusive?

[robleroy]

Ofcourse they would !! Do you care who makes a game when you buy it because of good grades??

[VenomUK]

When most publishers slammed the door on Ninja Theory, Sony believed in them and made Hellblade happen. Now that Microsoft own the IP it’s doubtful this will come to PSVR.

[rainslacker]

I'd play a psvr version of It. Would probably be pretty cool.

[King_Noctis]

@Venom

What do you mean? Sony didn’t fund Hellblade.

[Gh05t]

"Unfortunately, the mode won’t be available on PlayStation VR, but that isn’t very surprising, considering that Ninja Theory recommends a GTX 1080 graphics card as a requirement for your rig running the game in virtual reality."

Or maybe it just didnt work on PSVR to the level they wanted.

[Jinger]

Well there ya go

[robleroy]

Ninja theory is now owned by MS. They will never release something for ps anymore.
Duuuuh. That is normal.

[Jinger]

@robleroy

Well that isn't true. PS4 still has Minecraft, right?

[Weeblordbad]

The disagrees on this is absolutely delicious insecurity. The PS4 CANNOT run this it's simply not possible with the hardware especially if they're recommending a GTX 1080. But don't be sad PlayStation guys, if Xbox had a VR headset it would be the same deal there the Xbox/One X can't run Hellblade in VR either.

[crazyCoconuts]

Yea, the 1080 recommendation suggests they didn't spend tons of time to dumb the graphics down to what you'd need to run it on a PS4. 1080s are beasts compared to the GPUs in consoles. Oh well. When does that PS5 come out?

[P_Bomb]

@jinget
PS4 had Minecraft before MS bought it. What it still doesn’t have, are the life aquatic updates that Xbox One has been getting first.

[Kerplunk80]

Because the psvr has crap tracking??? PC is way better with vr which is why it's on here.

[rob-GP]

Nothing wrong with the PSVR tracking... Sure, if you move your move controllers behind you then it gets a bit iffy, but you just face the camera and it's all fine...

[crazyCoconuts]

Yea tracking isn't the issue. PSVR's tracking isn't THAT bad, btw, unless you're a stickler for perfection.

[Scatpants]

This game doesn't look like it would require robust tracking. The tracking part looks like something the PSVR could handle in this one. Forward facing, probably controller based rather than motion controls.

[robleroy]

You probably missed the news that MS bought Ninja theory...

[gamer7804]

They are now a Microsoft studio though, and this was published independently and not by Sony. So the chances of Microsoft making a version that can only be played on a playstation platform and not xbox are not even slim, but none even if the psvr was capable of playing the game.

[Abriael]

The platform missing there is because this requires a GTX 1080, with which a PS4 Pro isn't on the same planet, let alone a standard PS4.

[gamesndames]

Huh? Based off of many people on here it seems like PS4 owners have bomb ass PC's already. Just get it on Steam like they do with every Xbox exclusive.

[crazyCoconuts]

Never bought a Rift for my bomb ass PC since I already had PSVR. But thanks for that constructive suggestion.

[Sm00thNinja]

Lmao I chuckled at this

[Scatpants]

You should get a Rift. Echo VR and Beat Saber will blow your mind.

[rainslacker]

Well....considering that ms now owns ninja theory, I don't see a psvr version coming.

Ms may have been all about promoting vr for x1x, but they have no interest in furthering vr adoption unless people use their currently inadequate DX tools for it.

[Kribwalker]

why would you think their DX tools are inadequate for VR?

[rainslacker]

Because currently they are. They're just kind of premature at the moment. They haven't really been out that long, and I'm not even sure that they're out of beta versions yet. I'm sure they'll get better over time. There are a couple nice features in there though that aren't available in other API's, but outside one, they tend to be something for the engine level development which a lot of devs don't dive too deep into.

[Einhander1971]

The psvr probably has a bigger install base than the competition so doesn't make sense. And the psvr doesn't have crap tracking, for the price it's amazing.

[LightofDarkness]

The game runs at 30fps on the PS4. Imagine how much fidelity would be lost by having to render the same scene twice at double the framerate. Does it make sense now?

[thexmanone]

Well let me make some sense for you. They are owned by MS now. Why would they put there game on a Sony platform?

[BenRage3]

Microsoft also owns minecraft and they allow that on other platforms so...I don't think that's necessarily it.

[Scatpants]

It actually does have crap tracking, but it works well enough if you put the camera right in front of you on a tripod and play a game you don't have to move much in. Wipeout's probably my favorite to really get the best result out of PSVR.

[Casepb]

Cool deal it's free, I will check it out when it gets released. Oh wow they recommend a 1080. Hopefully my 1070 will manage.

[porkChop]

As for why it's not appearing on PSVR, there could be a couple reasons.

1) The game might require 360 degree tracking, which isn't possible on PSVR.

2) The VR requires a GTX 1080 on PC. Even with optimization, it's possible that they just couldn't get it running at a stable framerate. The game wasn't originally built for VR and was already pushing the PS4s hardware pretty hard.

[Moe-Gunz]

Hellblade is one of my favorite games this gen but I wouldn't say it was "pushing the hardware pretty hard". It didn't do that much to warrant that statement.

[starchild]

It is one of the best looking games of the generation. How do you know how hard it was pushing the hardware?

[King_Noctis]

Even if it didn’t push the hardware to the limit, it would still be very difficult to render this game in PS VR with all the visuals in tact.

[Moe-Gunz]

It looks good but technically I wouldn't say it's on the same level of Uncharted 4, Horizon, God of War, or Detroit.

I agree it would be hard to render in VR. I just don't feel like it's a game that's pushing the PS4 to its limit when you have the games I mentioned doing way more. I think that statement is unwarranted.

[Lynx0207]

And it is free for anyone who has Hellblade already... Just look at Doom, Skyrim and Fallout. It is just crazy.

[solidossnakos]

Neglecting PSVR wasn't a business move, it was purely technical.
The game runs 1080p 30fps on base PS4, porting it on PSVR imply sacrificing quality and fidelity.
If it was doable, I don't think ninja theory will pass.

[ibrake4naps]

turn your head to turn. Hmm, I don't know if I'll like that...