In what would be an unprecedented instance of video game swapsies, Oculus bigwig Jason Rubin has said that his company would “love” to trade exclusive games with competitor Sony. The former Naughty Dog man told Kotaku that “they have great stuff that they’ve funded and we have great stuff that we’ve funded”.
The insinuation, perhaps, is that if PlayStation were to port a title such as Blood & Truth to the Oculus Rift, it would be willing to return the favour with a release such as Lone Echo. It’s unlikely to happen, of course, but the virtual reality space is generally more collaborative than the console one, so there’s the smallest sliver of a chance.
Sony has allowed some of its first-party titles to be ported to the PC of late, with Quantic Dream’s slate of software being the most obvious example. But would a game like Astro Bot Rescue Mission, which is so uniquely married to the DualShock 4 controller, even work on alternative hardware? Maybe, but it wouldn’t be the same, would it?
[source kotaku.com, via uploadvr.com]
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If it's to get Oculus Exclusives like Robo Recall or
Lone Echo on PSVR, I'll be okay with this.
The only difference I see, Sony rally has pushed for vr, much harder than oculus
In what way is Astro Bot only usable on a DS4? Most controllers have the same button count, trigger style and gyro/accelerometer and the light bar should it be used for anything could be replicated via IR (poorly) or any of the VR motion trackers.
This idea will never come to pass though. Sony isn't Microsoft, and Sony's stance has been repeated over and over: we want to be the only show in town. Just ask Jim Ryan, he said the very same of their EU market share.
And sure, Sony has said they want competition for VR. Gets more people in and more games means more money and so the cycle continues. But to take what makes your VR headset, apart from price, the most compelling, isn't a good idea.
And even if we ignore all the "Never gonna happen because business" stuff, for God's sake it's Sony! The mere notion of their games played natively on other hardware has the Vita spinning in its grave. The mere notion of anything cooperative with other Platforms had them making an excuse a minute.
Should this one day come to pass I'll be checking the Mercury down in Hades because woo boy.
That’s not a fair trade, blood and truth are way more expensive to make compared to lone echo lol. Exclusives sells hardware, I don’t think it’s wise to port exclusive games to another hardware.
@Cutmastavictory
Yeah ummm... no.
@Knuckles-Fajita Astrobot uses the motion pad for shruiken throws and the light sensor as a torch in dark levels. It also has the built in speaker to give additional feedback when you retrieve the bots.
Never have I heard of Lone Echo, however Astro Bot Rescue Mission and Blood & Truth seem to be well known in the gaming community even if you dont own a PSVR. Not a fair trade.
Whatever. More quality VR games for everybody I say. Quality is the key word here, don't need their crap.
It makes sense - and probably beneficial for both Oculus and Sony. With such small numbers with VR, although Sony has a bigger install base, that doesn't leave devs with a big audience to sell to, to recoup the costs. By working together, at least as far as opening up the opportunity to sell to each others users, that can make a big difference to the devs and the budget they may have to make more games.
From a consumer perspective, its also a great idea - more games to play and as Sony has a big install base with the cheapest headset, selling OR games may encourage more people in to buying PSVR. More people into VR means more sales of games meaning more money can be invested into VR games encouraging more people to buy into VR....
Difficult decision. On one side, both the PSVR and Oculus will get more games, however for Sony, I think a lot of what is making the PSVR quite successful is with those exclusive games like Astro Bot, Blood and Truth etc. I think its best for Sony to wait at the moment. Wait for the release of the PSVR2 and further grow the install base
@themcnoisy A game used the touch pad? Ok wow
@Knuckles-Fajita that was not all he said was it clever clogs🤔
Sony has no need to be giving their software to them that does not help PlayStation 1 bit & you would never hear sony make a comment like that because they do not need too.
@David187 He did also mention the speaker and light bar yes but as I mentioned those features are replicatable to certain extents. Touch pad isn't.
Plus not many games use the touch pad so I expressed my surprise.
Just do it! VR games needs exposure!
@SirRealDeal Yes.
@InsertUsername
If you really believe Sony has "pushed for VR much harder than Oculus" you're seriously misinformed.
Seriously.
@SirRealDeal Love the irony in that comment. Thank you for the laugh.
Seriously.
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