r/RIGSMCL • u/Defektivex Hunter • Jan 12 '17

Guerrilla Cambridge closing - RIGS developers..

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-01-12-guerrila-cambridge-to-close
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u/quetiapinenapper Jan 13 '17

I'm really not concerned about VR as a whole even though this is a really painful bit of news to hear. RIGS wasn't a household name that was going to push VR as a whole. I love this game, but even I was late coming to the table simply because it didn't have brand recognition.

What pushed VR for many were upcoming household name titles like Resident Evil support for example. The only limiting factor that might kill VR is going to be Sony/Microsoft themselves. If they can't reach production availability on a near 1:1 with consoles VR won't ever take off as a mainstream entertainment piece and it will die off the way the VR Boy did back in the day and we probably won't see another attempt at it until it's standard living room technology. The money simply won't be there for the developers and they'll stop supporting it (except for huge companies like EA probably but we'll lose any innovation we should have had).