The company canceled a town hall and closed two offices following a "credible death threat."
Sony has launched the PlayStation Store "Summer Game Fest" sale and here's not only the full list of games, but the MP1st sale recommendations, too.
We’re yet to see more from new James Bond game Project 007, but I hope that the Hitman devs’ next title will be shown at Summer Game Fest.
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.
Ah, Internet people. Please change and be better.
Not to down play it but this seems like the norm now
Someone, whether it's a company, studio or a single person does something super shitty.
It receives backlash
A very vocal minority of trolls take it too far, trolls which exist it any subject / community when there's outrage.
Then these people who are currently being shit on into oblivion for whatever bad thing they've done take those death threats and make it into a bigger thing to try and deflect some of the criticism that's been happening.
Suddenly journalists have all moved onto reporting onto bad gamers, the communities fight amongst themselves to find the shitty ones and suddenly before long you won't be able to criticize anything the company or person has done fairly because some white knights will make it look like your with those trolls who have done the awful things to undermine you and your opinion.
Companies know this now, they know how to weaponize it to downplay what they've done and while it's really shitty that people will do awful things like send death threats its the internet, it always happens as human beings can be shitty.
At one time companies and people used to brush these trolls and threats off as what they were, stupid low life trolls but now it's used as a great way to try and defuse a situation to move the spotlight away from the issue that caused this intense reaction in the first place.
In this case, it's a change that does mess up with people's livelihoods and could potentially end whole studios. So I could see some getting really agitated about that.
Schools and buisnesses get bomb threats nearly every day because students/employees want a day off.
Unity and companies like them call in bomb threats to try and take the public pressure off themselves and place it on faceless trolls.
Disgusting. You think it's the people who are working on the ground floor making these decisions?
I'm sure it's just bluster but there enough hate in the world, doesn't need adding to it because of a bad decision from a notriously greedy ass CEO.
If you want to direct your anger, focus on him in a productive way. The guy wanted to charge for reload of guns FFS. Start a petition, demonstrate outside his house. There's a place in the world for non violent protest.
Whoever made the threats however, I hope they get found out and punished to the full extent of the law.