Meta has acquired the developer of Oculus Studios’ impressive Resident Evil 4 VR conversion. Despite the original game famously being created by Capcom, the organisation’s impressive Meta Quest 2 version was tackled by Armature Studio, a Texas-based team made up of Retro Studios alumni. The outfit will perhaps be best known by PlayStation fans for its work on PS Vita, specifically Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate and its mind-boggling Injustice: Gods Among Us port. The Xbox veterans among you may also remember ReCore.
Under the Meta umbrella, the firm will almost certainly be responsible for developing new virtual reality content for the Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest Pro. It’ll team up alongside Marvel’s Iron Man VR developer Camouflaj, also acquired today, as well as ex-Microsoft first-party Twisted Pixel. Fascinatingly, the latter was owned by Xbox from 2011 through 2015, but reclaimed its independence thereafter. Now it’ll join Meta.
It’s probably safe to assume none of these developers will work on PlayStation platforms again, although the situation is murky. Sony, for example, has agreed to release Marvel’s Iron Man VR on Meta Quest 2, and it’s unfathomable to think titles like Beat Saber, a Meta product, won’t eventually be ported to PSVR2. Therefore, while all three of these studios will focus on parent company Meta’s platforms moving forwards, there is still a slim chance their games could come to Sony’s systems later on.
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I see a partnership between Sony and Meta, I also think that a deal for iron man included half life alyx coming to playstation.
@UltimateOtaku91 Well Half-Life Alyx is Valve, so that's adding a third company to the mix!
But I do agree to an extent. They're all obviously competitors to a degree, but I think they do acknowledge they need each other to help grow the appeal of VR overall.
I think there will be some exceptions for sure.
Gross 🤢 that's almost as bad and some how more embarrassing then being bought by Tencent!
@UltimateOtaku91 I agree. Sony is probably letting Iron Man go so easily so they’ll let Sony have games too.
it has signed gamepass up no? doesnt need Sony anymore
Some talented devs are going to be turned into ‘Metaverse’ devs. Have fun developing games that look like 2004 porn you’d find on Newgrounds.
I'll stick with my PS4 remaster.
With how difficult it is for VR titles to turn a profit, I wouldn't think it would be in any VR studio's best interests to keep their content exclusive forever.
@stvevan yes it has , you will be able to access game pass games via the cloud officially soon
Please don't mention recore it makes me feels ill ,the fact that colt eastwood gave it 10/10 makes me want to put him through a wood chipper
I want to play re4 vr but its exclusive to the quest & I've only got psvr
That's a shame. RE4VR is excellent, and Armature are a great little studio. Shame their talents are going to be wasted on Zuck's Meta bullsh*t.
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