Vertigo 2 is arguably among the finest video games of 2023, but it surely’s solely obtainable on PC VR headsets. Developer Zach Tsiakalis-Brown mentioned earlier this yr that he thought a PSVR 2 port would positively be a superb risk, and now that Half-Life-style sci-fi shooter is within the wild, PSVR 2 assist is outwardly nonetheless within the playing cards for the solo dev.
Reacting to Twitter consumer Timo Schmidt, Tsiakalis-Brown confirmed that PSVR 2 support is still on the horizon, as he recollects an earlier tweet from January saying he “would like to port to psvr sooner or later. It’s positively a risk!”
As many have famous within the latest previous, PlayStation 5’s rendering capability is just about on par with a mid-range PC, which has allowed for a giant bump in graphics over legacy {hardware}, akin to PS4/PS4 Professional.
That bump lets builders create much more immersive and graphically intense video games than we’ve ever seen on PS platform, like Horizon Name of the Mountain (2023), or the remastered model of Music within the Smoke, the latter of which rivals even the PC VR model of the sport.
Nonetheless, creating for PSVR 2 isn’t so lower and dry. Exterior of really getting it to work on Sony’s newest VR headset, which is a way more exact goal than making a PC VR sport usually, Tsiakalis-Brown admits he’s by no means gone by way of the certification course of to publish a sport on the PlayStation Retailer. Up till now, all the developer’s video games have been PC VR solely.
Nathan Rowe, the solo dev behind VR artwork app SculptrVR (2016), had some sage recommendation to overcoming the method:
It’s doable to do solo. It practically killed me, although. My recommendation is to ask Sony for assist early. File tickets! They get learn and responded to!
— Nathan Rowe (@SculptrVR) January 21, 2023
And what good is Vertigo 2 with out Vertigo Remastered (2020)? Tsiakalis-Brown says releasing each video games for PSVR 2 can be a “nice technique to expose [the series to] an even bigger viewers!”
Whereas the solo dev hasn’t revealed a post-launch launch schedule, the order of operations is pretty clear. First the sport’s upcoming sandbox DLC, which is able to permit customers to create and share their very own content material primarily based on Vertigo 2 property and worlds, then … who is aware of!