Is Sony saving VR?

[DonFerrari]

VAMatt said:

twintail said:

It's pretty strange to compare a console to a console peripheral requiring said console, especially one with a high price tag involved. 

So of course there can't be AAA budget investment in a game right now, but that doesn't mean that their current lineup is lacking. 

DriveClub, Rigs, Farpoint, Firewall, Wipeout and Astrobot (especially this) are all strong investments. Blood & Truth and Dreams still have to release, and those aren't small investments either. 

Just because they don't have a system seller doesn't mean there is a lack of trying. SCEJ are making VR games, Sony London is making games, contracts with US companies for games. And don't forget that they built a whole new studio for VR game development, Manchester Studio.

Besides, PSVR has a software ratio of 7:1. There is money in VR in its current form for Sony.  

I don't disagree with any of those statements. But, there really has been no AAA level investment in psvr games. If there had been some, maybe sales would be a lot higher. We don't know that.  

I should probably walk back my statement from my original comment in this thread. Clearly Sony has done quite a bit to further virtual reality.  But, I think it is also true the Sony would have been the most obvious candidate for pproduction of a big-time, system seller, AAA type of game.  They have not attempted to make a game of this sort, at least not that I'm aware.  And, as we see mentioned on this site all the time, the software sells the hardware.  

I'm happy with my psvr. I think it's cool to play around with, and I'm glad to have a virtual reality device that did not require a massive investment on my part. It gets a steady streams of games, some of which appear to have a fair amount of effort and investments behind them.  But, I had higher hopes for VR a few years ago. With gigantic names like Sony, Facebook,   HTC, Samsung, and Valve behind the technology, I thought we'd see some real serious investment in software.  The fact that we have not seen this investment leads me to believe that these companies have determined that there is not going to be widespread appeal in the gaming market for this stuff in the near future.  And I find that disappointing.

I agree with all your points. But I would say that 2 things are missing for they to really put AAA game exclusive on VR even considering they are willing to lose money. The display/processing needs to get much higher so they can have high level graphics plus they need a concept that would be "revolutionary" game so it become a system seller by itself.

That will probably be more likely to happen on start of next gen.