Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice was announced for virtual reality headsets earlier today, but it won’t support PlayStation VR, prompting a bit of a backlash. Some felt that developer Ninja Theory – now a Microsoft subsidiary – was skipping Sony’s headset for corporate reasons, an assumption not exactly supported by the fact that the PlayStation 4 version of the game was patched with new features this morning.
Of course, the Internet can be such an angry place that it’s forced the Cambridge developer to comment, explaining that it’s “targeting very high-end PC VR setups”. This was our assumption when we received the press release as well, as the game can’t hold a locked 60 frames-per-second on the PS4 Pro on a standard screen, so the sacrifices would be far too great to maintain a steady framerate in virtual reality.
It’s good that the studio clarified as it should dampen any backlash, but it’s perhaps just a reminder to not go on online crusades when you see a piece of news that doesn’t suit you; sometimes there are other perfectly valid explanations outside of console wars.
[source twitter.com]
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It's a shame Sony doesn't allow a VR game to work just on the PS4 pro. This coming from someone who doesn't own a pro. Certainly better than skipping PlayStation altogether.
I still need to play this game.
@LaNooch1978 It's third-person. I've played a few third-person games in VR now and it's actually better than you'd think. It works well.
@LieutenantFatman Even then I'm still not sure there'd be enough horsepower. The PC requirements are really high.
I still think they could have drawn back on the graphics quite a bit to get it running on PSVR but seems like they don't want to. Just don't get how anyone would make a VR game that can't be released on the one headset that actually sells. Bad form Ninja Theory...again.
Everything they have said since being acquired has been absolute BS. No reason to think this statement is any different.
Makes total sense but PlayStation fanboys will remain salty... Not that I'm surprised.
@Gamer83 how dare they want access to the game.
No big loss, terrible game from an overrated pretentious dev team.
@UltimateDespair1 Terible game ? Have you played it ? The game is awesome, its the fact that the PC version requires a 1080 minimum to play. Lowering the graphics would not have been the right thing to do.
@RustyBullet I couldn't agree more. I think people are being salty just because Ninja Theory were bought by MS.
I heard the minimum vga card spec for hellblade vr on pc is 1080 gtx, that's ps5 territory
@RustyBullet yes I played it with the lights off and headphones like I was recommended and it was the most pretentious nonense I have ever played.
@UltimateDespair1 Yet now you are the one being pretentious. Personaly i cant think of a Ninja Theory game that i have not liked great dev team.
I played heavenly sword back in the day, great motion capture, thats about it. Pass for me
Shame but at the same time, the game looks incredible and would need high end hardware. Nothing to see here.
@LaNooch1978 Games like Persona 5 are what I love.
@RustyBullet nice opinion there man.
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