Meta is Bringing One of Its Most Popular VR Games to PSVR 2 - Road to VR

Who would person thought 1 VR’s astir fashionable games was coming to Sony’s next-gen VR headset? Probably everyone, but present the institution has confirmed it is so bringing Beat Saber to PSVR 2.

Announced during Sony’s CES 2023 keynote, Beat Saber is said to beryllium “in development” for PSVR 2, a crippled created by the Meta-owned workplace Beat Games.

There’s a fewer much questions inactive successful request of answering betwixt present and PSVR 2’s February 22nd launch though—one successful particular: is Meta going to connection PSVR 2 enactment arsenic a escaped upgrade to owners of the crippled connected PSVR? Sony is mum connected the taxable for now, with much accusation promised sometime successful “the adjacent future.”

There’s a increasing database of games getting escaped PSVR 2 upgrades, and we’d emotion to spot the block-slashing bushed crippled among them. After all, backwards compatibility isn’t a happening with PSVR 2…

Launched successful 2018 connected Rift, SteamVR, and PSVR, Beat Saber almost instantly became the medium’s astir recognizable title, and it’s inactive chugging years later. It regularly tops PSVR’s astir downloaded charts, and was adjacent successful the astir caller database of top-selling VR games connected Steam—a testament to its continued spot crossed each VR platforms.

It would marque a bully woody of consciousness that it volition so travel arsenic a escaped upgrade, arsenic Beat Saber’s revenue exemplary is precise overmuch tied to its continuous paid DLC releases, which regularly connection up euphony packs from immoderate of the world’s starring popular artists. Asking a PSVR proprietor to bargain a basal crippled and hundreds of dollars of DLC they already ain would beryllium a beauteous dicey maneuver to accidental the least.

In immoderate case, it appears Meta is sticking with its committedness to marque definite Beat Saber persists arsenic VR’s premier cross-platform title, though there’s nary telling whether they charged Sony a beauteous penny to marque it happen.