It’s fairly clear VR isn’t one thing PlayStation — and a wider vary of players — jive with sufficient to get into. This is the reason so many VR-focused studios are shutting down or large layoffs to hopefully give themselves simply sufficient time to deliver collectively one thing that may preserve the lights on just a bit longer. Even profitable studios aren’t exempt from this decline in VR love. Polyarc, the developer behind Moss and Moss: Ebook II, have issued layoffs.
On LinkedIn, the staff share that the choice was made because of an “unsuccessful team-wide effort to safe funding” for his or her subsequent recreation. They don’t make it clear who’s affected or how many individuals they’ve laid individuals off.
To be frank, whereas VR is usually a unbelievable factor, the area has largely didn’t safe giant game-related innovation from any kind of staff. Even wanting over on the PSVR 2, Sony has hardly given it any assist, with certainly one of their two SIE-published VR-only video games being delisted later this yr.
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