Man, some of the responses in this thread, Jeez. Predictable though. It needs to be said that they've tried VR ever since Oculus launched, they did two 11 or so hour livestreams for Oculus and Vive with no issues whatsoever. They even had a PSVR from Phil Fish to play Super HyperCube which didn't have any issues.
My point is that if there is a chance for faulty hardware then that's huge and it needs to be investigated as well as addressed for the time being. Obviously, for now it seems that it's a rare case but who knows what happens when this thing drops to the masses who of course will be having varying living conditions and all depending on how and where they live.
I should also mention that Brad used the old PS4 camera and Jeff used the new one, since both of them are the same on a technical level it didn't make a difference as we clearly saw since both of them had problems. They also mentioned they had the SAME problems at home so there is clearly something wrong here, Brad did mention he got Batman to work perfectly though at 4 in the afternoon one time. They also tried it at different distances. Just because others didn't have problems doesn't mean we dismiss those that did have problems because Giant Bomb weren't the only ones that had problems, atleast a handful of other outlets did have the same problems that GB had. When you're going to drop 400$+ on a hardware, you gotta take everything in consideration. Please remember this.
The lesson to be learned from all of this of course is, NEVER PREORDER. The wait and see approach always works wonders in the end. Now technical issues aside, as a person who has been following VR ever since Oculus hit the masses, what I saw didn't impress me but there were a few highlights (Thumper, Battle Zone, Rez Infinite & Super HyperCube) I'm more interested in what Sony is going to do in the future with this thing.
Eurogamer said:
This is the one of the worst things about the PSVR. I hate clutter. I remember the mess of cables running everywhere during the Wii years. Now it appears we're right back there with the PSVR.
And although the PSVR headset looks fantastic, the breakout box looks awful. Look at the cables plugged loosely into it. That thing looks cheap and really ugly.
These issues along with the threat of nausea make me question whether I should keep my pre-order, or just wait for the PS5 when all the processing will likely be internalized. What's strange about that Eurogamer review on the nausea question is that the reviewer said they had no nausea in 18 hours of use, yet at the end he warns about potentially "unsettling on your wellbeing [sic]", and claims that for games like DriveClub VR and Battlezone there's "little attempt to overcome the nausea issue". If he had no problems in his playtesting, how did he know this? Is this based on him talking to other journalists?
This is the one of the worst things about the PSVR. I hate clutter. I remember the mess of cables running everywhere during the Wii years. Now it appears we're right back there with the PSVR.
And although the PSVR headset looks fantastic, the breakout box looks awful. Look at the cables plugged loosely into it. That thing looks cheap and really ugly.
These issues along with the threat of nausea make me question whether I should keep my pre-order, or just wait for the PS5 when all the processing will likely be internalized. What's strange about that Eurogamer review on the nausea question is that the reviewer said they had no nausea in 18 hours of use, yet at the end he warns about potentially "unsettling on your wellbeing [sic]", and claims that for games like DriveClub VR and Battlezone there's "little attempt to overcome the nausea issue". If he had no problems in his playtesting, how did he know this? Is this based on him talking to other journalists?
