We honestly can’t think of a better combination than PSVR2 and PowerWash Simulator – especially with the haptic feedback and adaptive trigger features included with the PSVR2 Sense Controllers. Unfortunately, despite the game being announced for Meta Quest 2 yesterday, there are no plans for the release to clean up on PSVR2 right now.
A quote from the release’s Discord, as dug up by ResetEra, notes “the game will just be on the Meta Quest 2 for now” and adds there aren’t any plans to “move the VR version to PSVR”. The language seems to suggest a port could happen at some point, as it doesn’t appear there’s any exclusivity in place from Meta at the moment.
Obviously this is one we think Sony should be working to secure for its headset, as the vanilla version of PowerWash Simulator has proven very popular on the PS5, and we can only imagine it’ll be massively enhanced with virtual reality. If you’d like to see the title come to PlayStation’s VR device, let developer FuturLab know in the comments section below.
[source resetera.com]
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Well, it's over for the PSVR2. Go home guys.
This is, at the end of the day, Square Enix. It’s very likely they signed an exclusivity agreement with Meta for a year or who knows how long.
@HotGoomba you might be joking, but this is the first game thad has me tempted to try out VR at all. Unlikely to throw $500 at a device just for it, but it’s a big example of something that just screams “this is what VR is all about”.
Played about 2 hours on Game Pass before I had enough. However the gameplay is perfect for VR, the control scheme alone would make me interested in this.
I would like to clean FF16's Ifrit or SpongeBob in VR.
Yes, SE can.
Easy fix if you have fomo over this, clean your room😂
It's kind of funny that we've gone from "Sony's buying Square, it's all but signed" to "yeah, Powerwash isn't coming to PSVR2" lol.
I've never really clicked with the virtual yardwork simulators but I do have to say this game seems like it was meant for VR, shame we'll be missing out on this one.
@NEStalgia no other chore simulator has ever appealed to me, but decided to test this one via streaming on Game Pass a while back while listening to a podcast and fell in love with it. Ended up 100% ing the game, at least until DLC gets released. I’ll likely give it another visit once all DLC is out. I would advise at least giving it a play test via streaming.
Nice financial cushion for the studio to have knowing that the PSVR version will be a big cash injection. No doubt though this is some kind of timed exclusivity which I’m sure Microsoft will turn a blind eye to.
@The_Pixel_King ever considered doing this professionally?
@Tharsman Yeah, I did also play it on GP when it was the big hype thing for XB and....I mean it was ok....lol. I never got the hype ,but I'd play it in VR lol
Then again I'm being hypocritical because my VR obsession ins NMS which is basically Powerwash simulator but on a galactic scale and with space pirates.
" for now"
reading that part gives me false hope it will happen.
@NEStalgia NMS on VR2 is something to behold. Wonderful stuff. Although Walkabout golf is eating my life at the minute.
@Weebleman Indeed! I'm well over 100 hours into NMS VR and I probably have another hundred hours to go minimum. It's squeezed out purchasing Walkabout Golf among other things for the time being. I first played NMS in 2018 for like 2 hours and thought it was the most boring thing ever. Enter VR? And I can not be peeled away. I'd consider starting a new save
(Except when I upgraded my freighter to an A and the bug that loses your entire freighter base, and all the resources sunk into it hit me, and it saved over my save when it did it, too! I don't think I'll be going for an S after that, rebuilding it all once is enough lol.)
I've joked before that NMS is basically Powerwash Simulator but with an actual game attached.....so this whole thing is kind of funny. For anyone missing this, just buy NMS, the mining laser is basically the same game
No disrespect to the posters above who like the game, I'm glad they enjoyed it so much.
For me personally though, this is exactly the type of game that I feel blights VR, and not the reason I spent £600 on a headset, and also not the reason others are going to consider buying one either.
I had a Quest 2, and I'd like to see some games that simply wouldn't be viable on a Quest 2.
@SgtTruth TBH I'll never quite understand how this game became a viral hit at all. But it did! On Xbox it was the game everyone talked about on Game Pass last year, and I thought "ok, well, it's because no big games on GP", and then it came to Switch and PS and it was just as huge. Heck it's Square's only game of 2022+ early 2023 that's not a sales disaster.
I wouldn't discount this being one of the biggest VR games. It isn't for me but...neither would GTAV VR be. Could be a "Wii Sports" type thing for VR, especially for Quest.
Good thing I'm not a bored streamer that has to play every simulator out there for content because I don't like videogames with a story or a complex gameplay LOL
Red Matter 2 review please
"for now"
See you in a year, on the PSVR2!
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