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The gaming market isn’t ready yet for virtual reality

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That massive pain you're feeling in your nexk is only virtually real.

WE ARE VR! If there was anything that Virtual Troopers taught me back in the 1990s, it’s that VR gaming was mere months away! Maybe another year! Ok, a decade! DAMMIT. With the Oculus Rift and a host of other hardware on the way, it looks like my VR dreams are finally coming true. But I’m not expecting to play games such as GTA V in VR yet, because some publishers don’t feel that the market is ready yet for such a hardware shift.

When asked for his opinion on the booming VR market and whether the industry was ready for it, Take Two boss Strauss Zelnick had a simple answer. “Not yet,” Zelnick said on Bloomberg TV via IGN. “Part of it is we need to see how the headsets roll out and how we can best deliver an experience. We are concerned.

We don’t want people getting nauseated. And also, having had the experience, I’m not sure how long you want an immersive headset on your head. I will say this. If that’s what consumers want, we’ll be first in line to give it to them.

According to Zelnick, there was no point in jumping into the VR pool right now, which despite the various projects on the go, isn’t exactly a stable market. “We prefer to be a fast follower. No one else can make our intellectual property – only we can. I’m happy to have other people spend loads of dough on R&D,” Zelnick said.

Makes sense. Take Two is in a position where it doesn’t have to risk plenty of their own capital in order to succeed, and can use their more popular titles to piggyback off of the hardware success of VR. If it does become a thing, that is. Although to be honest, I’d sell Geoff’s organs for a VR Borderlands.

Last Updated: November 20, 2014

34 Comments

  1. OV..v00.2 20gig patch required

    November 20, 2014 at 11:33

    The gaming market is not even ready for working games that have been fully envisioned from conceptualization all the way to Q FUTHER FCKING A to GOING GOLD.

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    • Sir Rants A Lot is a DADDY

      November 20, 2014 at 11:34

      Comment of the week material right there

      Reply

    • Admiral Chief Wang

      November 20, 2014 at 11:36

      Now THAT is +10 material!

      Reply

    • Hammersteyn

      November 20, 2014 at 11:39

      It’s our fault, we should test it better during Beta

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      • HairyEwok

        November 20, 2014 at 11:56

        Yes indeed totally our faults.

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      November 20, 2014 at 11:49

      What’s this QA nonsense? O_O

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      • Admiral Chief Wang

        November 20, 2014 at 11:50

        404 not found

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        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          November 20, 2014 at 11:52

          Umar said he found that the other day… some site called rimjob.com

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          • Admiral Chief Wang

            November 20, 2014 at 11:53

            NOT CLICKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            November 20, 2014 at 11:54

            Me neither, who knows what that is.

      • OV..v00.2 20gig patch required

        November 20, 2014 at 11:54

        11 11 11 was the death of QA.

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  2. Admiral Chief Wang

    November 20, 2014 at 11:35

    Looks like he is reaching for a virtual boobie

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  3. Alien Emperor Trevor

    November 20, 2014 at 11:57

    VR SHMEE-R. It still won’t be the same D.

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    • Spathi

      November 20, 2014 at 12:51

      But just think, Star Citizen with OR!

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      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        November 20, 2014 at 12:59

        Look at the tags 😉

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        • Mark Treloar

          November 20, 2014 at 13:19

          You nexk will feel it.

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  4. RinceThis

    November 20, 2014 at 12:08

    Haha. Wail till they make a Kim Kardamstupid VR game and they’ll sell millions. Especially if you can build a house around her with no exits…

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    • OV..v00.2 20gig patch required

      November 20, 2014 at 12:16

      SOLD. Ill spend all year trying to Virtually Balance new items via DLC on her ass.

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      • Skyblue

        November 20, 2014 at 12:48

        You need a Code 10 to handle that machinery.

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  5. RinceThis

    November 20, 2014 at 12:10

    Wait until you can plug a pair of glasses into your cellphone and play and the market will explode.

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    • OV..v00.2 20gig patch required

      November 20, 2014 at 12:18

      The public did not take to kindly to those wearing Google Glass. Still far too early but am interested in the thought patterns of those who felt violated by the glasses.

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      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        November 20, 2014 at 12:58

        It amuses me that people have taken to calling them glassholes.

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  6. Jonah Cash

    November 20, 2014 at 12:12

    Won’t be suckered into this one thank you!!! Kinect was the last gimmick crap that I bought…..

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    • OV..v00.2 20gig patch required

      November 20, 2014 at 12:18

      Mine was the Super Scope. My younger brother had the NiNTENDO Virtual Boy.
      I spelt NiNTENDO with a small i… looks kind of cool.

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  7. Ross Woofels Mason

    November 20, 2014 at 13:10

    I don’t see the VR market being viable in the home market until it get jacked into our brains directly quite honestly =p

    all this “VR” we have at the moment end of the day is basically having a screen stuck to our faces. You still have to use peripherals to walk and do 90% of what the game has to offer, I get shot in the shoulder my controller rumbles I don’t feel anything in my shoulder etc… that’s hardly virtual reality for me.

    Arcades and those places it can be a-bit different, because there you can get in a full sized machine made like a mech’s cockpit, with screen’s all around you blocking everything else out and have the machine shake your entire body around when you are hit and stuff etc….

    so yeah I don’t see “VR” being a huge thing in the home market for a very long time to come still.

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  8. flushtwice

    November 20, 2014 at 13:53

    Was that starting line a P.O.D pun? Or is it just me? If it was, good. If not, I’ll be off to my psychiatrist’s office now…

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  9. K@kwordgem@@k

    November 24, 2014 at 15:27

    Darryn, jammer maar jy het nie n fokken idee waarvan jy praat nie

    Reply

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