Is the demise of Elite on console good or bad news for our hopes of VR in Odyssey?

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First off, let me preface this by saying for the umpteenth time that I am genuinely gutted for our console community, and as a boxhead, I literally feel their pain.

However, at the risk of sounding like a grave robber, now that Frontier have declared they are effectively making EDO a PC exclusive, and all work on EDH is stoppped, how do you think that affects our chances of getting VR improvements in Odyssey's future? And why?
 
Nah.

As of two weeks ago, only 2.12% of active steam users play in VR. That's only a smidge more than 1 in every 50 active Steam users.

And, those active Steam users can drop down to as little as 20 million users like it did today! What's 2.12% of 20 million active users again?

I think it's a lick over 420,000 players. Though as everyone knows, those active VR users on Steam probably wouldn't be interested in buying software for their HMDs, especially a solid space sim. Not financially viable.

That was ofc sarcasm btw.
 
I see Elite's problems coming down to two specific areas which effect both VR and the game as a whole:
  1. Elite Dangerous is/was a cash cow for Frontier and a vanity project for its CEO and Founder. That generally means they are of a mindset which excludes others, you're either onboard with the way it is or you just consume what is given to you like it or not. Cash wise they got a lot upfront and have in all probability banked or spent the majority already.
  2. How do you fund expansions, new features, new content and improvements whilst aggravating its community and market of 'people that will spend money'. You can have and satisfy the most die hard fanbase but if they can't commercially support your roadmap or plans there is a BIG problem which compounds only the first point.
So what you have left is a tricky situation where the CEO takes some sizable risks in order to transform Elite and in doing so opens up new markets OR they take a low risk, low reward path of rolling out what they can when they can in the hope of gradually appealing to players probably trying to draw console players into the PC platform by creating and selling the next expansion or even dare I say a sequel.

To come back then to the original point about how this effects VR... I see it getting worse because Frontier are basically saying they want to simplify the mainainence and production of code. The one saving grace is that as new consumers acquire VR hardware they are going to want content so if we see that continue to grow there is your new market IF Frontier feel they can support it cost effectively.

Everything Frontier has done since Horizons feels like its been done on a shoestring budget and the only way out of that is raising the quality by serious investment and I honestly don't think Frontier has the risk appetite for that. I think they are cutting their costs and forging on ahead with tight margins and low budgets to protect their commercials aka this is not good for VR.
 
First off, let me preface this by saying for the umpteenth time that I am genuinely gutted for our console community, and as a boxhead, I literally feel their pain.

However, at the risk of sounding like a grave robber, now that Frontier have declared they are effectively making EDO a PC exclusive, and all work on EDH is stoppped, how do you think that affects our chances of getting VR improvements in Odyssey's future? And why?
I doubt you will get an answer to this, Jay...

... such is the way Frontier work.
 
It was more to ask the community what they thought the outcome was likely to be.
I think, as one insignificant member of the community, that the decision to not include on-foot VR was because locomotion proved to be a stumbling block. Regular VR players like you and me have no ill-effect from 'walking / running / floating' although others might. I think that finding a satisfactory compromise to offer teleport / smooth locomotion in a game that has the majority of its players in pancake was too great a challenge.

Just my 2p, as I can't think of any other reason.
 
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