Inb4, XGS buying Kojima Productions rumours

I don't care for VR, but would be good to have as a option to those who want it... would make a good bathroom break on events at least.

Damn were back to 4 gwg. Guess it was to be expected. 

Well my prediction of MS partnering with either Valve, Facebook or both and releasing a WMR headset compatible with Xbox when they release Flight Sim on consoles is still out there. I am going to hold on to that bet. MS seems to be gun shy after Kinect and their complete focus still seems to be on Gamepass. Passing off hardware development to 3rd party companies which already are all in and just supporting their games on the platform seems like a much safer bet for them while keeping the platform open.

I personally couldn't care less about VR and honestly I hope it'll never become mainstream.

About option 1 - I think that this might only happen in case if Microsoft would come to conclusion that they need VR but they have no other options than to go with the "build their own headset" approach. Two reasons: Microsoft is not a hardware company and doesn't want to be a hardware company, right now they wish they didn't even have console hardware and you ask them to build yet another hardware. Second reason is that if such headset happens it will 100% be Xbox+PC compatible like everything Microsoft releases gaming related these days. The problem is, it won't sell well among PC crowd at all. If it is a WMR headset or any other standard (which would be even worse) for the reasons I mentioned in previous posts - WMR is barely supported by PC VR game developers. On the other hand, Microsoft still can make it WMR+SteamVR compatible on PC and WMR only on Xbox. But if I were to bet, this option would be the last thought for them because they would rather not bother with even more hardware.

About option 2 - it's not even about it being expensive, it's about the way how VR works on PC. I can be wrong, but as far as I understand, SteamVR is a runtime, a platform which is used by game developers to target their games to. So, it makes porting SteamVR games to Xbox impossible without SteamVR libraries being baked into Xbox OS even if Xbox OS will receive the headsets hardware support. Which means that MS would need to get Valve on board with this, but the issue is that Valve doesn't really have an interest in porting it to Xbox. It won't suddenly have any positive effect on their business by doing so. They are already fine with what they have right now, so why spend additional resources. I saw that there are some open source implementations of some libs which allow to run VR games without SteamVR installed, so MS can probably use this, but I'm not sure how good it works or if it even works at all

Could it be that Bloober Team and Kojima have been working together on an SH game and that's where the "two Silent Hills" rumors came from?

Not even close.

It's not a fad. VR is going to stick around, and continue to grow over time, but it's nowhere near mainstream yet. The vast majority of hardcore gamers don't even have VR headsets yet.

You are looking at this wrong.  Either one of those companies have huge services that reach millions of users which as a service company which MS has transitioned to, gives them the ability to upsell their services to.  Everything MS does is geared toward a more service based company where they view building platforms as services with million of users than actually selling individual software.  Even Google, Facebook another these other services shone just advertising alone on these services bring in huge amount of cash.

Its not about short term or long term goal, its about what fits MS current strategy and how they seek to position themselves in the future.

Bloodlines 2 in development Hell right now, crazy that this comes after the lead Director and Writer was fired from the Project with no warning at all.

The game has been pulled from Hardsuit Labs and preorders have been cancelled. It’s weird that Paradox would pull the game from a studio that they own a 33% stake in.