I'm on pro but I'm not sure if it's taking advantage as I've heard standard looks insane.
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I'm on pro but I'm not sure if it's taking advantage as I've heard standard looks insane.
My gf and I switch it up playing, even though we know the outcome it still gets jumps from us lol. I've gotten two endings so far, completely different. I heard there is a more satisafying 3rd ending solving murders within the house.
I have to ask, do you mean for right now Overwatch is better on a flat screen? I'd disagree and of course no one will try a competitive fps, so we'll never know.
Played the Star Wars VR mission, wow, that is a fan service to the films. The detail of the ships is insane. It was short, but really fun. I had a smile on my face when the music kicked in during the battle. That 20min was a better experience than the last 4 films.
https://www.evevalkyrie.com/articles/updates-and-patches/gatecrash-update-and-patch-notes
Eve Valkyrie pro update details. Apparently it's very noticeable.
Eve Valkyrie pro update details. Apparently it's very noticeable.
I tried VR for the first time today on an Occulus demo at Best Buy. Holy crap! I want VR now.
I'm not sure if I'll get PSVR or wait and see what HMD's launch with Scorpio. But I'll have one before the end of 2017 for sure.
I played kind of a wizard type demo by Insomniac that was fukcing cool. Looking up at the buildings was crazy with sense of being there. Really cool.
I'm not sure if I'll get PSVR or wait and see what HMD's launch with Scorpio. But I'll have one before the end of 2017 for sure.
I played kind of a wizard type demo by Insomniac that was fukcing cool. Looking up at the buildings was crazy with sense of being there. Really cool.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/youtube-vr-now-supports-playstation-vr/0177096
Don't get PSVR expecting it to be as good as Occulus or Vive.
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Out of fvcking nowhere! Wat. Looks great.
https://blog.asia.playstation.com/s...hing-mars-will-be-available-on-jan-19th-2017/
https://blog.asia.playstation.com/s...hing-mars-will-be-available-on-jan-19th-2017/
Watched a couple videos, looks like it could be some fun (provided you don't fall in with griefers or the normal online hoodlums). Be sure to give us an update when you unscrew your head.
I have at night. I used to get effed up nightmares all the time, so much so, I actually got used to them. Re7 is definitely tense though, I'll give it that. It's going to be a great experience also. Looking forward to it.
I was just coming to post this. This makes me extremely happy. Man, drooling over some Group B action. Lancia Delta S4 is my car.
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I randomly asked the guy GameStop if the device is selling well. He said that he doesn't really know since they haven't gotten any units in for over a month.
I seriously considered getting one over Switch. But I haven't seen any on store shelves since basically launch.
I seriously considered getting one over Switch. But I haven't seen any on store shelves since basically launch.
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I've been wondering about actual sales and what happens from this point on..
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertc...s-psvr-doomed-heading-into-2017/#5605e8f63656
Is Sony's PSVR Doomed Heading Into 2017?
Jan 16, 2017
Everyone is buzzing over the Nintendo Switch right now, but I wanted to cast my attention backwards to a piece of hardware that came out just a few months ago, Sony’s PlayStation VR. Despite debuting in October 2016, the first console-based VR headset seems to have almost disappeared completely from conversation in the industry.
Sony themselves certainly isn’t talking about it much. Despite being more than happy to boast about how PS4 and PS4 Pro have now amassed over 50 million sales, they have yet to publicly comment on how many units PSVR has sold. Sony has previously said that sales for PSVR are “on track,” but will not explain what that means, exactly. Later, Sony’s Kaz Hirai elaborated a bit more to Daily Star Online:
“We've always said it's going to be a slow start, unfortunately, we did produce a lot of units but we ran out of stock in some retailers, but I think based on reports coming out of the holiday season, we're actually happy with the numbers.
"One of the reasons we're not talking about the numbers so much is because we don't want the numbers to take a life of their own."
The “life of their own” the numbers would take on is presumably a story about how PSVR is not exactly tearing down the house when it comes to sales. SuperData Researchpreviously revised their estimates for 2016 sales of PSVR from 2.6 million to 750,000, which is still more than Oculus and HTC, but obviously nothing to brag about, given Sony’s silence.
But as we head into 2017, even if Sony was predicting a slow start for PSVR, it’s hard to know exactly what happens now. Almost no one is talking about the system presently, and it’s unclear what’s going to change that fact going forward.
I can only pin down two specific dates for PSVR releases in 2017: January 24th for Resident Evil, and March 14th for Ubisoft’s Star Trek Bridge Crew. Everything else, another 14-15 upcoming games (and arguably none as big as these two), are assigned to either quarters or the year in general with no firm dates. Googling “upcoming PSVR games” yields outdated lists and no official results from Sony. On Sony’s own site, of the many PSVR games it has listed, almost all of them are already out with just a few upcoming in 2017.
Photo: Ubisoft
My question now is how is this current situation turned around? Is there a game out there that’s going to make people start buzzing about PSVR again? Resident Evil, the game that was making people sick in demos last year? Bridge Crew, which is cross-platform across all VR? It’s hard to know which games could really break out for PSVR at this point.
Furthermore, Sony is in a tough position because at launch, the advantage the headset had was that it was cheap, and it would run off a PS4 you probably already owned. But in order for that to be possible, the PSVR is in fact the “bargain” VR set, where the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are the more powerful, more technically advanced units. The more time passes, the more outdated PSVR will appear as VR tech continues to evolve. So what happens then? PSVR 2.0, when the first one didn’t really even prove its case? Microsoft can tell you how well that went for Kinect.
I do not think that Sony is going to pull a Kinect with PSVR, at least not this year. I am sure that we will see some PSVR stuff shown off at E3 2017, albeit a bit less enthusiastically than we’ve seen previously. But if things don’t turn around? Yes, it is easy to imagine Sony washing their hands of the peripheral. They’ve done it before, and they can easily do it again. One of the greatest fears about PSVR in the first place was that if it wasn’t a big hit from the outset, that Sony would effectively abandon it. While that hasn’t happened, it’s hard to say that we’re not on that road either.
I don’t know what the future holds for PSVR, or really, all consumer VR in general, which frankly doesn’t seem to be in a great spot right now. The tech is exciting, but it has obviously not caught on fire outside of specific niches. For as much pressure as I’m putting on PSVR, we’re certainly not hearing loads about the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive these days either. But I think PSVR is in a unique spot where it exists as the one device that Sony is struggling to sell, and a prime example that even if VR is cheaper and easier to access, that still may not be enough in the current market.
Maybe Sony has some grand 2.0 master plan in their pocket, or maybe there will be a breakout title or two for the PSVR this year. But for now, it’s mostly silence, and it’s hard to know how exactly that’s going to change over the course of the next year as the tech continues to age and its games line-up fails to excite.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertc...s-psvr-doomed-heading-into-2017/#5605e8f63656
Is Sony's PSVR Doomed Heading Into 2017?
Jan 16, 2017
Everyone is buzzing over the Nintendo Switch right now, but I wanted to cast my attention backwards to a piece of hardware that came out just a few months ago, Sony’s PlayStation VR. Despite debuting in October 2016, the first console-based VR headset seems to have almost disappeared completely from conversation in the industry.
Sony themselves certainly isn’t talking about it much. Despite being more than happy to boast about how PS4 and PS4 Pro have now amassed over 50 million sales, they have yet to publicly comment on how many units PSVR has sold. Sony has previously said that sales for PSVR are “on track,” but will not explain what that means, exactly. Later, Sony’s Kaz Hirai elaborated a bit more to Daily Star Online:
“We've always said it's going to be a slow start, unfortunately, we did produce a lot of units but we ran out of stock in some retailers, but I think based on reports coming out of the holiday season, we're actually happy with the numbers.
"One of the reasons we're not talking about the numbers so much is because we don't want the numbers to take a life of their own."
The “life of their own” the numbers would take on is presumably a story about how PSVR is not exactly tearing down the house when it comes to sales. SuperData Researchpreviously revised their estimates for 2016 sales of PSVR from 2.6 million to 750,000, which is still more than Oculus and HTC, but obviously nothing to brag about, given Sony’s silence.
But as we head into 2017, even if Sony was predicting a slow start for PSVR, it’s hard to know exactly what happens now. Almost no one is talking about the system presently, and it’s unclear what’s going to change that fact going forward.
I can only pin down two specific dates for PSVR releases in 2017: January 24th for Resident Evil, and March 14th for Ubisoft’s Star Trek Bridge Crew. Everything else, another 14-15 upcoming games (and arguably none as big as these two), are assigned to either quarters or the year in general with no firm dates. Googling “upcoming PSVR games” yields outdated lists and no official results from Sony. On Sony’s own site, of the many PSVR games it has listed, almost all of them are already out with just a few upcoming in 2017.
Photo: Ubisoft
My question now is how is this current situation turned around? Is there a game out there that’s going to make people start buzzing about PSVR again? Resident Evil, the game that was making people sick in demos last year? Bridge Crew, which is cross-platform across all VR? It’s hard to know which games could really break out for PSVR at this point.
Furthermore, Sony is in a tough position because at launch, the advantage the headset had was that it was cheap, and it would run off a PS4 you probably already owned. But in order for that to be possible, the PSVR is in fact the “bargain” VR set, where the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are the more powerful, more technically advanced units. The more time passes, the more outdated PSVR will appear as VR tech continues to evolve. So what happens then? PSVR 2.0, when the first one didn’t really even prove its case? Microsoft can tell you how well that went for Kinect.
I do not think that Sony is going to pull a Kinect with PSVR, at least not this year. I am sure that we will see some PSVR stuff shown off at E3 2017, albeit a bit less enthusiastically than we’ve seen previously. But if things don’t turn around? Yes, it is easy to imagine Sony washing their hands of the peripheral. They’ve done it before, and they can easily do it again. One of the greatest fears about PSVR in the first place was that if it wasn’t a big hit from the outset, that Sony would effectively abandon it. While that hasn’t happened, it’s hard to say that we’re not on that road either.
I don’t know what the future holds for PSVR, or really, all consumer VR in general, which frankly doesn’t seem to be in a great spot right now. The tech is exciting, but it has obviously not caught on fire outside of specific niches. For as much pressure as I’m putting on PSVR, we’re certainly not hearing loads about the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive these days either. But I think PSVR is in a unique spot where it exists as the one device that Sony is struggling to sell, and a prime example that even if VR is cheaper and easier to access, that still may not be enough in the current market.
Maybe Sony has some grand 2.0 master plan in their pocket, or maybe there will be a breakout title or two for the PSVR this year. But for now, it’s mostly silence, and it’s hard to know how exactly that’s going to change over the course of the next year as the tech continues to age and its games line-up fails to excite.
What I find crazy bout PSVR is Sony has put zero push behind it since E3 last year. It (and Oculus/Vive) had massive buzz this time last year, and Sony has a pretty good VR headset for the money, you'd think that they'd advertise the heck outta it. There hasn't really been a peep from any VR camps in months now.
Even though this is a bit old (however, that's all there really is to go by at this point) it's a bit disheartening:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2016-11-29-vr-the-biggest-loser-this-holiday
Even though this is a bit old (however, that's all there really is to go by at this point) it's a bit disheartening:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2016-11-29-vr-the-biggest-loser-this-holiday
I never really had interest in getting VR but with Resident Evil 7 that may change. Then with Dirt Rally and upcoming GT Sport, plus who knows what else I may end up grabbing it later this year.
It's supposed to be getting a Pro upgrade as well. Cool to see devs support "older" games on both pieces of hardware. I'll definitely consider grabbing Dirt when the patches release.
I keep getting more and more interested in PS VR as well...
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The VR system has way too many wires, I cannot be bothered to set the thing up.
Setup killer.
Setup killer.
Amazon hasn't had them in in forever. I have it set to e-mail me when they are back in stock and so far nada. Stuff often sells out for Xmas, but I'd think by now they'd be back.
Not sure if they just haven't made a ton or what, I am a little surprised something like that is still that hard to find.
It would be ok if it was just a 1 time setup but having to redo it when I want to play an HDR game is downright annoying. I hope they can patch in an HDR pass-through or give everyone who bought in a free hardware upgrade. I would seriously be playing more VR if I didn't have to pull my TV out and rewire my setup.