The technology of Sony’s new VR headset is promising – and several studios have already announced that they will port their old VR games to the new headset due to the PSVR 2‘s backwards compatibility. VR enthusiasts are hoping for a second springtime for console VR with the Playstation VR 2. The original Playstation VR only boosted the success of VR gaming a bit in the beginning, and then increasingly disappeared into oblivion due to glaring hardware shortcomings and a lack of content. Moss I and II are launch games for PSVR 2

Yet despite the strategically questionable decision to release the game exclusively on a dead platform, Studio Polyarc was able to nab the award for Best VR Game at the Game Awards for Moss II. Still, it doesn’t have to guarantee financial success, as the rumors surrounding Moss: Book II’s poor sales figures show. Those are perhaps the two most important ingredients for a successful VR game. They need to do particularly good marketing (which doesn’t mean expensive) to attract the attention of potential players. Still, the market is difficult: studios need to have an excellent concept that takes advantage of virtual reality. Of course, this is as wrong as it is one-sided – there are already several financial success stories for VR games and VR apps, including the Quest platform. VR games seem to be the unloved stepchildren of the gaming industry: At first glance, they don’t promise enough profit to be seriously considered as an option for new projects.

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