PSVR2 Takes Another Hit as Sony Nukes Exclusive Shooter Firewall Ultra

Here we go again. Im sorry but how does this put a nail in the coffin in PSVR 2? As your article explained, this was a flop sequel to a celebrated game whose studio had closed down a while ago, is it surprising its being shuttered? Because Concord was shut down, is the PS5 on deaths door? Im not going to act like VR is thriving, its had a tough 2026 for certain, but it will survive, and if the writer thinks it doesnt, i certainly would welcome a more compelling argument. Instead Stephen Tailby shoehorning this narrative into anything VR related is getting tiring. You got my click mate, good on you, last time you will though, your play is getting transperent now.

Have to question why they didnt put it on to ps+ a while ago. Wouldn't have cost them anything to do it and perhaps could have given it some kind of bump in playerbase. Not suggesting it would have resulted in a different outcome but at least be seen to be trying.

Was the coffin ever open?

@Haruki_NLI due to all these comments and news it was open for one week and then closed… since around 3 years now.

Aren't you guys going to report that Death Stranding 2 PC version got cracked already on PC thanks to Steam's mistake? lol

@ThorsHammer Agreed...very clickbaity, and as you said, gane was pretty much DOA due to poor development decisions. Never have I known a PS site to actively crap on a Sony product so much!!

Had some good times in Firewall Zero Hour with the Aim controller back on PSVR1, but I heard the sequel just didn't live up to expectations. Missing things like manual reloads and physical throwing of grenades is a big no-no when players are used to that from competing shooters.

Weird headline since the studio has been gone for a while now. I’m pretty sure Pavlov is the dominant game in the ‘PvP PSVR2 shooter’ subgenre.

This is so depressing. Sony sold excellent hardware, and now it pulls the plug of 50% of SIE published games.

Yes, Sony published only two (2!) PSVR2 games, not counting GT7 and this climate change thing.

I‘m still wondering what the discussions inside Sony before the PSVR2 release would have been.

I'm still buying one even if GT7 is the only game I'll play using it. If support is cancelled completely I'll buy a PC and use the psvr2 to race games on that instead..

@Fizza And this is why not doing PC releases is bad for game preservation, especially when it comes to VR titles. At least with PC there's almost always a way to keep a copy of the game, even if said game is no longer functional.

In the future, how is it gonna be possible to play this game? Someone will have to make a PS5 emulator that can play PSVR2 titles, which likely won't be functional anytime soon

Wake me up when VR is on the level of the NerveGear or AmuSphere

@themaladroit I mean most games that aren’t denuvo get cracked very quickly, this really isn’t unusual. Sony don’t do denuvo and steam doesn’t seem that difficult to bypass given how quickly games get cracked.

There's a much better shooter on the way for PSVR2. Forefront is a 32 player with cross-play battlefield style game. When is Push Square going to do articles about Forefront and inform readers?

Lasted quite well as live service games go these days. Not my genre so I never played it, but was generally well received, even without the aim controller and some late patched features.

It really sucks that the only playable first party exclusives psvr2 has right now are Gran Turismo and Horizon. They couldn't even bother porting Astrobot to PSVR2...

@Mio_Nakashima that sounds absolutely fun

@4fold I don't know, it got pretty poor reviews, but Sony did absolutely zero marketing for it, so it's no wonder it failed as a live service game. Most people probably don't even know that Sony published this game

@danzoEX Now you've got me thinking about what an actual, official Sword Art Online real-world VR game might look like...

I bought this game day 1....I was hoping it would be the game to get some worth out my psvr 2.....it wasn't

@LowDefAl i know that, but it's a shame that Sony don't use a decent DRM to stop piracy, at least for a few days. This time around Valve was the culprit because they uploaded a version of the game with no encryption at all. That's a big mistake on their part

I'll say it til im blue in the face. A vr killzone or resistance with a singleplayer campaign, with a multiplayer facet, like the older shooters.

Another one would be to put time crisis series, house of the dead series, virtua cop series, and other arcade shooters on the psvr 2 as well.

Should have been given some life on PS+ on one of the tiers.

@Max_the_German crazy hey, bring a new platform out but don't support it. Publishes 2 games and then pulls one. And we thought the Vita support from Sony was bad.

The whole psvr 1&2 was a flop and a waste of time and resources they could've used to make actual non remastered games for ps5. Look at psp, psvita, psvr: hyped them up then abandoned them all, they would barely support any of them with games. Sony knows what their doing when they make products to abandon and fail, take your money release 1 or 2 games for it then let it die, they don't care cause they got your money and we keep falling for this BS. If sony had any competition they wouldn't get away with this but since Xbox won't even try and Nintendo just wants to do whatever it does, sony will continue to make these 100s of dollars priced accessories, yes that's all they are accessories, keep making the weak minded think they need them, drip feed them a few games then after a few months bury any support for these accessories

It's not selling because it released somewhat broken, incomplete, with some questionable mechanics, and in need of work, which fans were awaiting fixes for...

It's not being played so much because there were a smaller set of gamers who stuck with the game while the issues were being fixed over time.

New people aren't buying in because after FCE shuttered, Sony stepped in and said they would continue or provide support, and then went radio silent... So between FCE going out of business until now, we've had absolutely no information or road map to go on as to what was gonna happen to Firewall. Many of us suspected they'll just pull the plug at some point with little announcement, which is what we're seeing here.

I really think that when Sony were "maintaining" the game, it should have been added to PS Plus Extra so lots more people could have got in on the action! It seems like it would have been a no brainer to me anyway, especially as they'd potentially spend money in the game on packs and items anyway.

It also royally sucks that with First Contact Entertainment now gone, we won't see them add P2P hosting so they game can remain playable (as they have on Firewall 1), unfortunately we're just left with the server side hosting, meaning as soon as those servers are off, this game becomes dead 😓

@danzoEX Look up Forefront video's. It's like old-school Battlefield before EA ruined it.