Even though VR offers unprecedented and sometimes impressive sensations, its potential is far from being fully exploited. Most of the titles on offer are nothing more than a technical demonstration, but this is perhaps about to change, according to Gabe Newell, co-founder and director of Valve (Half-Life, Portal). He said that, in addition to working on their own VR headset, the HTC Vive, the studio is also developing three VR games.
"So one of the questions you might ask us is 'Why in the world are we making hardware?' So right now, we're building 3 VR games. And what we can do now is to be designing hardware at the same time that we're designing software. This is something that Miyamoto has always had, right?"
"[Miyamoto] has had the ability to think about what the input devices & the design of systems should be like while he's trying to design games. Our sense is that that's going to allow us to actually build much better entertainment experiences for people."
"So the idea isn't like oh - we suddenly thought we could make more money by building hardware - because hardware's actually traditionally been a lousy low-margin business."
And he also confirms that the three games in production will be complete games and not game concepts as we have seen so far.Are you satisfied with the current offer in virtual reality games?