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\n\t\tThe future didn\u2019t last very long (Sony)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tThe future didn\u2019t last very long (Sony)<\/p>\n
After buying a PSVR2<\/a> and a Meta Quest 3<\/a>, a reader laments that a potential golden age for VR gaming<\/a> already seems to have come to an end.<\/p>\n I\u2019m in my late 40s now and for my whole life VR has been something that has always been claimed as the future of gaming and technology in general. The idea has never really changed, it\u2019s always been a headset stuck awkwardly to your head, except of course it\u2019s only recently that we\u2019ve had graphics that are in any way good enough to make it worth doing.<\/p>\n Since I\u2019ve always been interested in the concept, I got a PlayStation VR headset for the PlayStation 4 and was very impressed. The controls were not great, and Sony<\/a>\u2019s support for it was a bit of a minimum effort, but it had tons of indie style games, and I don\u2019t regret buying it all.<\/p>\n I can\u2019t say the same about the PlayStation VR2, though, which has been a huge waste of money and which Sony only ever released one game for (Horizon Call Of The Mountain<\/a>). Because I\u2019m an idiot though, I went ahead and got a Meta Quest 3 as well and while that was a lot better, with a lot of really great games, the closure of a bunch of Meta\u2019s developers<\/a> makes it obvious that the format, and the whole concept of gaming VR, is dead now.<\/p>\n When the original PlayStation VR came out there was a ton of excitement around VR. Lots of other headsets came out at the same time and big publishers started doing short experiments for their games, from Call Of Duty<\/a> to Final Fantasy<\/a>. Capcom<\/a> was the most enthusiastic though and the VR mode for Resident Evil Village<\/a> is still one of my favourite gaming experiences of all time. They carried on long after others gave up too, although I don\u2019t see any sign of them doing anything for Resident Evil Requiem<\/a>.<\/p>\n That\u2019s not exactly a surprise because when Meta shut down the makers of Deadpool VR<\/a> and Asgard\u2019s Wrath<\/a>, and basically shut down the Batman: Arkham Shadow<\/a> team as well, I think that was pretty much the official end of gaming VR, at least for the next decade or two.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tExpert, exclusive gaming analysis\t\t\t<\/p>\n Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter<\/a> for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning.<\/p>\n Those three were amazing games and I guess most people never got to play them (or they would\u2019ve sold better and the developers wouldn\u2019t have been shut down) but Asgard\u2019s Wrath was kind of a Skyrim<\/a> style role-playing game which is basically one of my favourite games ever, while Batman: Arkham Shadow was better than Arkham Knight, as far as I\u2019m concerned, and managed to do all the gameplay of the flat screen games but in VR.<\/p>\n It\u2019s extra frustrating because these games are so good and they seemed like they were going to be the start of a new golden age for VR games. Instead, they were just a glimpse of what could be and what we\u2019ll probably never see again. There are still interesting lower budget games, like the excellent V-Racer Hoverbike<\/a>, but I think even those are starting to dry up now.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no big mystery about why this happened. Headsets are expensive and people have less money now, so they\u2019re not buying enough to justify spending a lot of money on VR games. I don\u2019t know how that would change either, unless headsets magically get cheaper to make, but considering console prices keep going up that seems very unlikely.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve heard people say that VR will only truly take-off when it\u2019s just the size of a pair of glasses, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a particularly big issue. The problems are the price and the fact that you\u2019re cutting yourself off from the rest of the world while you\u2019re using it, which is something my wife doesn\u2019t like in particular.<\/p>\n That\u2019s not going to change whether the headset is like a pair of sunglasses or not. I imagine at some point the technology will get to that point, so I guess we\u2019ll see, but I think there\u2019s going to be a huge time gap between then and now, when VR gaming is going to be effectively dead.<\/p>\n By reader Grobby<\/p>\n \t\t The reader\u2019s features do not necessarily represent the views of GameCentral or Metro.<\/p>\n You can submit your own 500 to 600-word reader feature at any time, which if used will be published in the next appropriate weekend slot.<\/p>\n Just contact us at gamecentral@metro.co.uk<\/a> or use our Submit Stuff page<\/a> and you won\u2019t need to send an email.<\/p>\n Arrow Arrow Arrow![\"Screenshot](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_288931954-7efb.jpg\")
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