Interestingly they are still releasing psvr games after the buy-out.
Doom 3 VR was released on psvr early in the year.

I think because ms had no investment in VR is safe for Bethesda to publish pets of their older games

The future of VR is sony ms dont have any know how in that they are 2 gen behind for starters

Hard to say knowing Microsoft's subscription plans for gaming. But it wouldn't be unusual for them to block any future games in VR or help their competitors. They didn't just possibly lock out flat game franchises to keep off PlayStation, it includes VR games.

Inxile- Mage's Tale
Compulsion- Uncle Jack Live
Bethesda- Skyrim, Doom, Doom VFR, Wolfenstein Cyber Pilot
Ninja Theory Hell Blade, Dexed, Vader Immortal(possibly performance capture with ILMxLab)
Double Fine- Psyconauts
Mojang- Minecraft

10/11 games or experiences on PSVR. No future plans known for PSVR 2. No future plans known for all the developers purchased under Activision Blizzard even though gamers wished for franchises like COD in VR.

I doubt Bethesda will be working on any VR titles until their other flat game titles are finished. If ever. But, Microsoft does have enough developers now that could help launch an Xbox VR headset. But as I said, Microsoft doesn't believe VR fits into their subscription for gaming strategy at this time.

Personally, I don't think that Microsoft will push their company into supporting new tech of a competitor when they themselves are not in that market.

It's a shame but from a business standpoint, I can't see it

Surprised no one mentioned the Kinect, that debacle probably made them gun shy to try another hardware add on.

The Kinect sold really well breaking records for fastest sales but had limited software, devs couldn’t afford second teams. When devs were dedicated to making a game and spent the resources to pay 25 people for a year then the game could only be sold to 30% of the Xbox players that had Kinect.

Or the same devs could make a game that 3x the amount could potentially buy. What would you do?

Same problem with vr. You need dedicated teams that could have a better return on investment.

I think it is a two edged sword, they can stop their contents from going to other platforms, hoping to force people to buy into their ecosystem, but if that doesn't work out then they will become more even irrelevant in the VR space if VR does indeed raise up this gen.

Same for the CoD franchise, it is a popular name and has a lot of power, but if they stop it from going to other platforms, it can either benefits themselves greatly, or to risk another cross platforms FPS to raise up and take a bit chunk of the pie.

Microsoft has already stated there lack of interest in vr. If anything Bethesda will have less of a presence in the vr space now.

When were they ever leaders in VR? Everybody unanimously criticises their VR ports

For someone who plays a lot of VR I really disagree with the statement that they are a leader in VR, they ported a lot of their games over to VR but they were so low effort and poor examples that the best way to describe their contribution to VR is a leech rather than a leader

@OP you are specifically talking console VR and ignore Microsoft's Windows Mixed Reality platform. Talking specifically about Bethesda, I see no reason why they can't make VR games based on upcoming releases regardless of who they are owned by. You can still play VR titles via Gamepass for PC btw.

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I think calling them a leader in vr is up for debate.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau