DonFerrari said:
VAMatt said:
My point is not that Sony isn't releasing VR games. My point is that of all the developers out there, the one that you would expect to make the big budget system sellers is Sony. Yet, they have failed to do so. There really aren't any system seller VR games, unfortunately,
Nobody except the hardware guys can possibly come up with justification for putting big development money into VR game development, as the install bases are too small for big budget games by third parties to be profitable. Sony is the leader in VR hardware sales, which would usually lead to some big games that in turn drive further hardware sales. We've seen it with PS4, for sure. But, they haven't done so for PSVR.
That shows me that for one reason or another, Sony has determined that there isn't big money to be made in VR right now. And that spells problems for the future of VR.
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Except Batman, Driveclub, Rush of Blood are very fine and good budgeted games for VR made or comissioned by Sony, while one of the best implementations (RE7) certainly have been financed by Sony.
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I don't think any of those games (save for RE7) are big-budget blockbusters, and none of them moved systems that I'm aware of. Batman in particular was disappointing to many people.
As for resident evil 7, while it had VR support it was certainly not just a VR game. But, I'll grant you that this is probably the biggest AAA entry into the VR space. It made a lot of noise. This conversation reminds me that I need to play it.
