Sony Suggests PS VR2 Ports Will Be Very Difficult - TheGamer

Not lone volition PS VR2 not beryllium backwards compatible with PS VR games, but we besides shouldn't expect to spot galore ports. That's according to a caller interrogation with Hideaki Nishino, elder vice president of level acquisition astatine Sony, who explains precisely wherefore the arguable determination was made to ditch older VR games connected the caller model.

In the interview, Nishino says that the VR2's eye-tracking capabilities marque porting older games difficult. While explaining that ports volition beryllium possible, the Sony brag says it volition yet travel down to idiosyncratic developers and publishers, arsenic they volition person to determine if it's worthy it. He besides says that immoderate games volition beryllium easier than others, suggesting that simpler VR games whitethorn beryllium ported over.

"This time, successful summation to the caller controller tracking, we person adopted a rendering method called 'foveate rendering' that increases the solution of the portion wherever the eyes are successful focus," says Nishino, speaking to Famitsu (via Google Translate). "The strategy itself is precise antithetic from the erstwhile model, it volition not beryllium a elemental porting work.

"Whether oregon not it is casual to larboard depends connected the content, and whether it is really ported depends connected the manufacturer."

Via Sony 

In different words, don't get a PS VR2 expected to beryllium capable to play done older VR games that you missed. It seems that newer games volition beryllium the absorption of the updated model, with ports lone being made if 3rd parties judge it is worthwhile.

It's not each atrocious quality for those reasoning astir picking up the PS VR2, however. The VR mentation of Resident Evil Village volition beryllium free for anyone who already has the game. We besides already cognize that No Man's Sky VR is getting a larboard to PS VR2, escaped to anyone who has already purchased the archetypal game. Improvements are being made too, truthful it volition marque usage of the VR2's caller features.

PS VR2 is acceptable to motorboat connected February 22, 2023.

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