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[Lunatic_Gamer]

The PlayStation VR2 (PSVR2) is set to usher in a new generation of VR games this 2023, and thanks to recent hardware control standards, porting games to the PSVR2 has never been easier.

An article from issue #380 of EDGE magazine highlights how VR games are much easier to develop for multiple platforms, according to “The Last Worker” Creative Director Ryan Bousfield.

If you look at the PSVR2 controller, it’s very much like the Oculus controller.
Companies are standardising. A few years ago, you had the Vive wands, and Oculus’s various controllers, and then the PS Move that didn’t even have D-pads.

Building VR games that feel immersive requires developers to tune their games based on the platforms they’re building for, and this used to be an issue when VR headsets were wildly different from one another.

The Last Worker Dev: It's Now Easier to Port Non-PSVR Games to PSVR2 Due to Control Standards

Thanks to recent hardware control standards, it's easy for developers to port non-PSVR games to the PSVR2, according to a dev of "The Last Worker."

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[Cert.in.Death]

So…prices should be adjusted to reflect the lower time/effort investment?

 

[Markio128]

This is good news. I’m hoping that there are plenty of standard games with a VR mode included over the next few years. Even if the VR mode is basically a camera that lets you survey the environment in a 3rd-person game, it would still be pretty cool.

 

[SLB1904]

So…prices should be adjusted to reflect the lower time/effort investment?

What you on about?

 

[Cert.in.Death]

What you on about?

They plan on charging me full price for ports? Where did that $10 upgrade program disappear to?

 

[Freeman76]

Shame they couldnt make all the games we bought for their previous VR unit work with it

 

[mckmas8808]

Shame they couldnt make all the games we bought for their previous VR unit work with it

THIS! Or at least Sony should have hired programmers to help devs that made PSVR1 games to get them ported to PSVR2.

 

[CamHostage]

They plan on charging me full price for ports? Where did that $10 upgrade program disappear to?

Not PSVR1 ports (although there's that too, but those would have to be ports, they can't just have BC like normal with some of the differences to overcome.)

They're talking VR games in general. Quest and PC VR games have more consistent support systems than PSVR1 did, and so more games that were a hit elsewhere could come over. However, this particular

 

[Markio128]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Spider-man 2 could be played in VR.

 

[64gigabyteram]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Spider-man 2 could be played in VR.

if that happens psvr2 sales are gonna spike the same way ps5 sales did

 

[Markio128]

if that happens psvr2 sales are gonna spike the same way ps5 sales did

I reckon it would still play in 3rd-person, but you could look around whilst swinging. There’s no reason why every game couldn’t have a fly on the wall VR mode.

 

[64gigabyteram]

I reckon it would still play in 3rd-person, but you could look around whilst swinging. There’s no reason why every game couldn’t have a fly on the wall VR mode.

don't like that idea as much as vr first person but probably makes more sense for people with motion sickness/playspace reasons (making motions of punching and kicking is likely gonna lead to some broken tvs)

 

[Markio128]

don't like that idea as much as vr first person but probably makes more sense for people with motion sickness/playspace reasons (making motions of punching and kicking is likely gonna lead to some broken tvs)

It wouldn’t suit Spider-man 2 to be in 1st person, especially with the combat. However, something like TLOU would work really well in VR, even in 1st-person.

 

[CamHostage]

THIS! Or at least Sony should have hired programmers to help devs that made PSVR1 games to get them ported to PSVR2.

Some help is already out there, and a lot of developers are doing it. But not all games will be worth the porting process. Some developers have been bought since then or are busy with other projects, some publishers have moved away from the Vr market, some titles have licenses that would have to be resigned, the difficulty of reassigning the camera-based tracking features from the old system would need a rethink and conversion, and the value may just not be worth it when the game only sold so much the first time and would not necessarily recoup the porting costs, depending on how well PSVR2 does.

If straight backward-compatibility were possible, that would be one thing, but it unfortunately didn't happen, and developers would have to dig out and open up code to remake a PSVR1 game for PSVR2. Some just aren't going to invest in that process.

 

[mckmas8808]

Some help is already out there, and a lot of developers are doing it. But not all games will be worth the porting process. Some developers have been bought since then or are busy with other projects, some publishers have moved away from the Vr market, some titles have licenses that would have to be resigned, the difficulty of reassigning the camera-based tracking features from the old system would need a rethink and conversion, and the value may just not be worth it when the game only sold so much the first time and would not necessarily recoup the porting costs, depending on how well PSVR2 does.

If straight backward-compatibility were possible, that would be one thing, but it unfortunately didn't happen, and developers would have to dig out and open up code to remake a PSVR1 game for PSVR2. Some just aren't going to invest in that process.

All that is true. I wish there was a way to have a top 20 best PSVR games ported over and Sony just pay to have it done. No reason a game like Thumper couldn't be ported over super easily to PSVR2.

 

[SLB1904]

They plan on charging me full price for ports? Where did that $10 upgrade program disappear to?

You have no clue what you talking about. Just be quiet

 

[nial]

They plan on charging me full price for ports? Where did that $10 upgrade program disappear to?

Holy shit, it's even in the thread title.

It’s Now Easier to Port Non-PSVR Games to PSVR2 Due to Control Standards

What drives someone to make low-effort posts such as this?

 

[MasterCornholio]

They plan on charging me full price for ports? Where did that $10 upgrade program disappear to?

I haven't heard of Sony canceling it nor of having it in the first place.