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Do You Own A PSVR?

Yes 18 35.29%
 
No 33 64.71%
 
Total:51
Alex_The_Hedgehog on 17 August 2018
123Lucas said:

Here in South America it's too expensive to buy one. Almost no one has it.

Indeed.



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DonFerrari on 17 August 2018
123Lucas said:

Here in South America it's too expensive to buy one. Almost no one has it.

Yep, bought it during travel, much better.



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trixiemafia86 on 18 August 2018
DonFerrari said:

Well if you can, go to a Sony store and try RE7, Driveclub VR, Rush of Blood or Batman VR. They are quite good games for first outings...

Hope you enjoy your time with it or the PC versions.

Will walk-in next time I see a Sony store. Need to see the differences btw Gear VR and PSVR. 



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Conina on 18 August 2018
OTBWY said:
HollyGamer said:

Seeing there are a lot of competitor and big company involving in developing VR tech, i don't see your point.  

As a medium, I don't think it has grown passed the same certain genres. That's not the hardware perse, but rather VR as a concept from the getgo.

And which are these "same certain genres"?

I have played entertaining VR games in almost every genre so far:

  • action games: SUPERHOT VR, Robo Recall, Eagle Flight, RIGS, In Death, Archangel
  • platformers: Lucky's Tale, Mervils, Robot Rescue, soon Astro Bot
  • shooter games: Arizona Sunshine, Arktika.1, Dead Effect 2 VR, Doom VFR, Farpoint, Raw Data, Serious Sam series, Doom 3 BFG (VR mod), NOLF 2 (VR mod)...
  • rail shooters: Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, In Cell 1 + 2
  • tactical shooters: Onward, Pavlov
  • fighting games: Knockout League, Gorn, Creed: Rise to Glory, Feral Rites
  • stealth games: Budget Cuts, Alien Isolation (VR mod)
  • rhythm games: Beat Saber, REZ Infinite, Thumper
  • action-adventure: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Edge of Nowhere, Bound
  • survival horror: Resident Evil 7, Narcosis, Wilson's Heart
  • puzzle platformer: Moss
  • metroidvania: Witchblood
  • adventure games: Obduction, Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab, The Gallery 1 + 2
  • interactive stories: The Invisible Hours, The Price of Freedom, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
  • RPGs: Skyrim VR, Fallout 4 VR, Chronos,
  • puzzle games: The Talos Principle, Wayward Sky, Elevator... to the Moon, FORM, Esper 1 + 2, I Expect You to Die, Statik, Portal Stories: VR
  • sport games: Echo Arena, Sprint Vector, Eleven (table tennis), Racket NX
  • simulations: Star Trek: Bridge Crew
  • funny simulations: Job Simulator, Virtual Rick-ality!, Virtual Virtual Reality
  • dogfighting sims: Eve: Valkyrie, House of the Dying Sun,
  • racing sims: Assetto Corsa, Project Cars 1 + 2, Gran Turismo Sport, Dirt Rally
  • racing games: WipEout Omega Collection, RedOut, TrackMania Turbo, Blaze Rush
  • strategy: Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Brass Tactics
I probably have even forgotten some good VR games of other genres


OTBWY on 18 August 2018
Conina said:
OTBWY said:

As a medium, I don't think it has grown passed the same certain genres. That's not the hardware perse, but rather VR as a concept from the getgo.

And which are these "same certain genres"?

I have played entertaining VR games in almost every genre so far:

  • action games: SUPERHOT VR, Robo Recall, Eagle Flight, RIGS, In Death, Archangel
  • platformers: Lucky's Tale, Mervils, Robot Rescue, soon Astro Bot
  • shooter games: Arizona Sunshine, Arktika.1, Dead Effect 2 VR, Doom VFR, Farpoint, Raw Data, Serious Sam series, Doom 3 BFG (VR mod), NOLF 2 (VR mod)...
  • rail shooters: Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, In Cell 1 + 2
  • tactical shooters: Onward, Pavlov
  • fighting games: Knockout League, Gorn, Creed: Rise to Glory, Feral Rites
  • stealth games: Budget Cuts, Alien Isolation (VR mod)
  • rhythm games: Beat Saber, REZ Infinite, Thumper
  • action-adventure: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Edge of Nowhere, Bound
  • survival horror: Resident Evil 7, Narcosis, Wilson's Heart
  • puzzle platformer: Moss
  • metroidvania: Witchblood
  • adventure games: Obduction, Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab, The Gallery 1 + 2
  • interactive stories: The Invisible Hours, The Price of Freedom, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
  • RPGs: Skyrim VR, Fallout 4 VR, Chronos,
  • puzzle games: The Talos Principle, Wayward Sky, Elevator... to the Moon, FORM, Esper 1 + 2, I Expect You to Die, Statik, Portal Stories: VR
  • sport games: Echo Arena, Sprint Vector, Eleven (table tennis), Racket NX
  • simulations: Star Trek: Bridge Crew
  • funny simulations: Job Simulator, Virtual Rick-ality!, Virtual Virtual Reality
  • dogfighting sims: Eve: Valkyrie, House of the Dying Sun,
  • racing sims: Assetto Corsa, Project Cars 1 + 2, Gran Turismo Sport, Dirt Rally
  • racing games: WipEout Omega Collection, RedOut, TrackMania Turbo, Blaze Rush
  • strategy: Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Brass Tactics
I probably have even forgotten some good VR games of other genres

Just taking a quick glance at this list. The great majority of these are first person type games. Thanks for proving my point. Let me present you with a question, do you feel that VR will be the next step in gaming, or just an added feature to existing games?



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KingofTrolls on 18 August 2018

Im a PS VR owner and Im happy with it. Actually, VR is great for party.



Bofferbrauer2 on 18 August 2018
Errorist76 said:
potato_hamster said:

There is no connection. VR has existed for literally decades. This is not "pioneering new technology" in any way. It's just a better version of it.

The fact that you just put the first model's total sales up there without the context for why it only sold that many units shows how you're not looking at VR reasonably. Imagine in its first year if the PSVR was only sold in Best Buys in America, only worked with PS4 Pros, and required a persistent internet connection. That's about on par with the first iPhone's retail situation. And it still sold *six times* what the PSVR did in one year before it was replaced with the iPhone 3G,

That's why the first iPhone only sold 7 million units. What's PSVR's excuse?

 

Again with that nonsense. VR has NOT existed for decades in any meaningful way. You negative nanny spouted all that BS already in another thread and I'm not willing to repeat myself again. Continue hating if you must, I'm not engaging with you on another senseless discussion. 

And to even honestly think a VR headset would get the same sales numbers as a new type of phone just shows your own intentions of trying to talk down everything VR, even though Sony is way more successful than the direct competition.

Do us all a favour and keep your negative head out of all VR discussions if that's all you want to contribute! Thx

 

flashfire926 said: 
That's what, a 4-5% attach rate? And coupled with the fact that it took a good eight and a half months to sell another million, as I supposed to be impressed?

 

You wouldn't be impressed by anything Sony does in any way, regardless.

It existed at least in the 80's still can remember playing Space Harrier VR on my Sega Master System, and a decade later Descent on my PC (and I swore I will only buy a VR set for a similar game!). Now we're 2 decades later again.

So yeah, VR existed for decades in a meaningful way, but generally flopped and stayed low until the next try - except in medecine and some CAD applications, where it can be highly beneficial. Today's VR helmets are actually a stripped-down version of those professional VR helmets.

I seriously can't understand how this is celebrated to be a great number. When I saw the title, I was actually expecting the Author to be spelling doom and gloom due to poor sales, not the reverse. At this rate, Labo (which got called a flop at launch and still gets called as such to this day, though not nearly as often anymore) might overtake PSVR within this year.



The Nintendo eShop rating Thread: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=237454 List as Google Doc:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aW2hXQT1TheElVS7z-F3pP-7nbqdrDqWNTxl6JoJWBY/edit?usp=sharing

The Steam/GOG key gifting thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/242024/the-steamgog-key-gifting-thread/1/ 

Free Pc Games thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/248138/free-pc-games/1/

Bofferbrauer2 on 18 August 2018
potato_hamster said:
Mandalore76 said:

Hasn't Gear VR sold around 8 million headsets?

Gear VR is regularly given away for free with Samsung Galaxy phones. There are dozens of unopened Gear VR headsets for sale on craigslist in my city at any one time. It's hard to see Gear VR numbers as relevant.

Anybody has an idea how many Steam accounts there are (found it, it's 125M accounts, with 67M being active monthly)? According to the monthly survey, around 0.65% of accounts have a kind of VR (down from 0.70 the month before), which would mean about 800k only on PC

After all that hype less than 4M across Consoles and PC doesn't seem good, but at least PSVR does much better then Vive/Rift and the other ones.



The Nintendo eShop rating Thread: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=237454 List as Google Doc:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aW2hXQT1TheElVS7z-F3pP-7nbqdrDqWNTxl6JoJWBY/edit?usp=sharing

The Steam/GOG key gifting thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/242024/the-steamgog-key-gifting-thread/1/ 

Free Pc Games thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/248138/free-pc-games/1/

Peh on 18 August 2018

It needs a great first person JRPG with lovable characters. Something like Sword Art Online but not Sword Art Online. Something that feels like a big adventure. 

I mean… 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1gjm9V4jyg

I don't know….



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Conina on 18 August 2018
OTBWY said:
Conina said:

And which are these "same certain genres"?

I have played entertaining VR games in almost every genre so far:

  • action games: SUPERHOT VR, Robo Recall, Eagle Flight, RIGS, In Death, Archangel
  • platformers: Lucky's Tale, Mervils, Robot Rescue, soon Astro Bot
  • shooter games: Arizona Sunshine, Arktika.1, Dead Effect 2 VR, Doom VFR, Farpoint, Raw Data, Serious Sam series, Doom 3 BFG (VR mod), NOLF 2 (VR mod)...
  • rail shooters: Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, In Cell 1 + 2
  • tactical shooters: Onward, Pavlov
  • fighting games: Knockout League, Gorn, Creed: Rise to Glory, Feral Rites
  • stealth games: Budget Cuts, Alien Isolation (VR mod)
  • rhythm games: Beat Saber, REZ Infinite, Thumper
  • action-adventure: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Edge of Nowhere, Bound
  • survival horror: Resident Evil 7, Narcosis, Wilson's Heart
  • puzzle platformer: Moss
  • metroidvania: Witchblood
  • adventure games: Obduction, Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab, The Gallery 1 + 2
  • interactive stories: The Invisible Hours, The Price of Freedom, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
  • RPGs: Skyrim VR, Fallout 4 VR, Chronos,
  • puzzle games: The Talos Principle, Wayward Sky, Elevator... to the Moon, FORM, Esper 1 + 2, I Expect You to Die, Statik, Portal Stories: VR
  • sport games: Echo Arena, Sprint Vector, Eleven (table tennis), Racket NX
  • simulations: Star Trek: Bridge Crew
  • funny simulations: Job Simulator, Virtual Rick-ality!, Virtual Virtual Reality
  • dogfighting sims: Eve: Valkyrie, House of the Dying Sun,
  • racing sims: Assetto Corsa, Project Cars 1 + 2, Gran Turismo Sport, Dirt Rally
  • racing games: WipEout Omega Collection, RedOut, TrackMania Turbo, Blaze Rush
  • strategy: Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Brass Tactics
I probably have even forgotten some good VR games of other genres

Just taking a quick glance at this list. The great majority of these are first person type games. Thanks for proving my point. Let me present you with a question, do you feel that VR will be the next step in gaming, or just an added feature to existing games?

Of course most of them are in a first person perspective... that's the usual perspective in the real world, too.. duh!

You are in the real or virtual world and can look around in every direction.

But all these games are in different genres with different playstyles. I also forgot to mention pinball games (f.e. Pinball FX2 VR), another genre which works great in VR.