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JRPGfan said:
Honestly? yes.
It has the best selection of VR games from any device on the VR market from what I understand.

I disagree. The selection of good VR games is pretty much on par for PSVR + PCVRso far... with slight advantage to PCVR.

Here is a comparison of the best VR games sorted by score (PSVR on the left, Oculus Rift on the right:

 

And if we include unofficial VR patches to non-VR games (f.e. Alien Isolation, Doom 3 BFG, No One Lives Forever 2), the gap widens in favor of PCVR.

Last edited by Conina - on 16 December 2018

I'm not sure about ''saving''. But they're definitely keeping a positive outlook on it for the immediate future when it comes to home consoles.



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Conina said:
JRPGfan said:
Honestly? yes.
It has the best selection of VR games from any device on the VR market from what I understand.

I disagree. The selection of good VR games is pretty much on par for PSVR + PCVRso far... with slight advantage to PCVR.

Here is a comparison of the best VR games sorted by score (PSVR on the left, Oculus Rift on the right:

(Long list, see above)

And if we include unofficial VR patches to non-VR games (f.e. Alien Isolation, Doom 3 BFG, No One Lives Forever 2), the gap widens in favor of PCVR.

And there are still people saying there are no games for VR...



Conina said:

I disagree. The selection of good VR games is pretty much on par for PSVR + PCVRso far... with slight advantage to PCVR.

Here is a comparison of the best VR games sorted by score (PSVR on the left, Oculus Rift on the right:

 

And if we include unofficial VR patches to non-VR games (f.e. Alien Isolation, Doom 3 BFG, No One Lives Forever 2), the gap widens in favor of PCVR.

I don't know about game selection... but what I knw is that support isn't the issue with VR. Its price or cost of entry. 

At $500 (PS4 + PSVr) sony is offering the cheapest cost of entry for VR. And that is what the platform needs.  

And even at that its still expensive for most. I have a PS4pro but still can't bring myself to spend $200 for VR.  



Once 5G become mainstream and a lot of country using it, and cloud will be normalizes and at that time people will able to stream games and not worrying to buy hardware or consoles . The reason why i relating cloud and VR is because both are fundamental future platform. people will just buy VR device and running it through streaming and cloud device. Also 5G are also important for wireless VR head set so it will not be dependent on wire anymore.

Probably is to arrogant to say SONY save VR but i can pretty much say that SONY contribute a lot to bring VR on mainstream or is just a semantic and can be debatable. The important thing VR is not a gimmick , far from what people said on it first impression. Also SONY also contribute to introduce consoles gaming to VR , bring alot of potential and cheap price and easy and accessibility.

I am agree with your narration but SONY is not alone, even a failure Virtual Boy bring hopes and dreams, kinnect, Wii mote and Eye Toy bring a step to the motion tech maybe you can argue with me. But everything has contribution. But I hope SONY will be step a head to bring VR to next level, and bring more people to enjoy VR and other company will follow.



HollyGamer said:
Once 5G become mainstream and a lot of country using it, and cloud will be normalizes and at that time people will able to stream games and not worrying to buy hardware or consoles . The reason why i relating cloud and VR is because both are fundamental future platform. people will just buy VR device and running it through streaming and cloud device. Also 5G are also important for wireless VR head set so it will not be dependent on wire anymore.

Probably is to arrogant to say SONY save VR but i can pretty much say that SONY contribute a lot to bring VR on mainstream or is just a semantic and can be debatable. The important thing VR is not a gimmick , far from what people said on it first impression. Also SONY also contribute to introduce consoles gaming to VR , bring alot of potential and cheap price and easy and accessibility.

I am agree with your narration but SONY is not alone, even a failure Virtual Boy bring hopes and dreams, kinnect, Wii mote and Eye Toy bring a step to the motion tech maybe you can argue with me. But everything has contribution. But I hope SONY will be step a head to bring VR to next level, and bring more people to enjoy VR and other company will follow.

VR will always need standalone hardware, either built into the headset or PC/console in close range. You can not stream VR games, it needs minimal latency. Streaming might disrupt VR adoption as consoles might indeed become a thing of the past. However it will be a while until the hardcore accepts streaming.



I actually don't feel like Sony has done very much for VR at all. They're making the hardware available, but they haven't put any real money into software development. That's the thing that first parties are generally good for when we talk about supporting hardware. Sony has proven more or less useless in that regard.



SvennoJ said:
HollyGamer said:
Once 5G become mainstream and a lot of country using it, and cloud will be normalizes and at that time people will able to stream games and not worrying to buy hardware or consoles . The reason why i relating cloud and VR is because both are fundamental future platform. people will just buy VR device and running it through streaming and cloud device. Also 5G are also important for wireless VR head set so it will not be dependent on wire anymore.

Probably is to arrogant to say SONY save VR but i can pretty much say that SONY contribute a lot to bring VR on mainstream or is just a semantic and can be debatable. The important thing VR is not a gimmick , far from what people said on it first impression. Also SONY also contribute to introduce consoles gaming to VR , bring alot of potential and cheap price and easy and accessibility.

I am agree with your narration but SONY is not alone, even a failure Virtual Boy bring hopes and dreams, kinnect, Wii mote and Eye Toy bring a step to the motion tech maybe you can argue with me. But everything has contribution. But I hope SONY will be step a head to bring VR to next level, and bring more people to enjoy VR and other company will follow.

VR will always need standalone hardware, either built into the headset or PC/console in close range. You can not stream VR games, it needs minimal latency. Streaming might disrupt VR adoption as consoles might indeed become a thing of the past. However it will be a while until the hardcore accepts streaming.

            Not at our times , once people develop an efficiency quantum computer and and better tech for streaming the latency will be gone and minimum at best. I am not saying it will come in short period of times i believe it's the future and far future , thus i said  " VR and cloud " will be the foundation of future. You can argue with me about streaming and cloud but we are agree VR is the future and cloud will be part of our gaming platform of choices , no it will not replace dedicated gaming platform at least not another millennia. Cloud as a device to run VR also an alternative for the future once people achieve the tech. For now yes we still need dedicated hardware to run VR. 



I feel the more fitting word is 'relevant' rather than saving, as VR doesn't really seem like tech that's really been dying, but rather has just been... there. It's something that's never really caught on, but attempts have been made on it many times. As for the answer to the question, not sure really. PSVR isn't really something I hear mentioned when the topic is brought up. Usually it's Oculus I hear about, and how that's the best VR tech currently. I'd give Sony part of the credit, but not the sole contributor.



 

              

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