Perhaps they just don’t want to be the ones footing the initial bill? The CEO of CCP still says that, “virtual reality will eventually change the world” so like most games developers, they still believe that there will be a market for VR.
EVE ONLINE VR PC
Meanwhile in the real world, CCP has closed its Atlanta studio and stopped VR development because it wants to focus more on its PC games and the mobile market. Or perhaps that should be “Long live AR” which appears to be taking off on its own trajectory and may well discover its own killer app to achieve escape velocity. The trouble with looking for and expecting a killer app to launch a platform is that when an app makes a big splash like Eve Valkyrie and receives multiple glowing reviews, any failure by the app to sell big numbers becomes the cue for an announcement that it is dead. Why? Most analysts put it down to the Playstation 4’s relatively cheap price and a strong line-up of titles. Xbox One was way behind that figure as of January 2016. Despite evidence that there is usually more than one factor responsible.įor example, Playstation 4 has sold approximately 60 million units to date. From Windows to 4K TV, everyone has an opinion on the killer app that will ultimately make a platform successful.
EVE ONLINE VR SOFTWARE
The term has entered the mainstream consciousness as the only piece of software that sells a platform. Or as Pocket Gamer put it, “ the best space dogfighting game ever made”.Įver since Bungie released Halo and single-handedly won the console wars for Xbox, the games industry has looked for the killer app to sell a platform.
The one thing that would make gamers buy a headset.
And when it came out, it was touted as the killer app for VR.
EVE ONLINE VR PS4
Some other developer will have to carry the VR torch for a few years - assuming CCP gets back into the virtual reality market at all.A major games company has closed its VR studio.ĬCP, the games company responsible for the long-running Eve Online title as well as many other smaller IP has closed its Atlanta VR studio and the ripples through the games industry are still reverberating a week later.Įve Valkyrie is a VR title released by CCP on PC and PS4 with support for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Playstation VR headsets. It was also among the titles available when the PSVR went on sale, but that game's fortunes declined since and CCP relaunched the game with the option to play on PS4 without VR capability last month. EVE: Valkyrie was a prominent face of virtual reality gaming when it debuted with the Oculus Rift's launch in March 2016. This makes sense given how much the company has professed its faith in VR over the years. "We will continue to support our VR games but will not be making material VR investments until we see market conditions that justify further investments beyond what we have already made," CCP told Engadget in an emailed statement.ĬPP haven't lost faith in VR entirely, according to the statement.
The studio won't, however, continue developing new virtual reality projects for two to three years.
EVE ONLINE VR UPDATE
In a forum post, the game's team assured fans that it would still release a promised Winter content update and would continue supporting the game.īoth EVE: Online and its upcoming first-person shooter Project Nova will be unaffected. CCP isn't shutting down EVE: Valkyrie, instead selling the team off wholesale. Some of the 100 laid off employees will be offered relocations to the London offices, CCP said in a statement emailed to Engadget. In an interview, CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson noted the company would close its Atlanta office and transition its projects to the company's offices in Reykjavík and London. Today, news dropped that CCP will dip out of VR development for the next few years and refocus on PC and mobile - which, unfortunately, means shuttering two of its five global offices. While the studio had begun to break into other VR titles, including the one-on-one competitive Sparc released for PSVR in August, its virtual reality days are done. While CCP Games is best known for its space MMO EVE: Online, its VR spin-off game EVE: Valkyrie won praise for its immersive (if limited) gameplay.
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