Eve: Valkyrie might not come to PC and Oculus Rift

CCP Games refuse to confirm platform for virtual reality space shooter.
Text: Bengt Lemne
Published 2013-10-24

Eve: Valkyrie first saw the light of day as an exciting proof concept at the EVE Fanfest earlier this year. Using Oculus Rift the game was called Eve-VR at the time and it went on to have successful showings at E3 and Gamescom. Now Rock, Paper, Shotgun have talked to CCP chief marketing officer David Reid and he seems strangely non-committal to PC and Oculus Rift.

"It technically works on PC, and it's working fine, but there are other platforms it could run on. There's nothing that technically prevents it from running on a console, for example."

He went on the elaborate a little while remaining very vague.

"Well, I mean, PC is definitely in the cards. Is it definitely something that's there in 2014 on commercial launch day? I couldn't answer that for you yet. We certainly could do it, but it's still a question of whether we will."

Could Eve: Valkyrie be heading to console? And will there be VR on console soon?

"No, we're not necessarily [basing our launch on when Oculus comes out]. While we can't get into details here, there are other platforms that are available. It is technically possible to run this game without a Rift. There's a whole bunch of different things out on the market right now."

What do you think? Given CCP Games strong relationship with Sony could it be that Eve: Valkyrie is heading to PS4 and its rumoured VR helmet?

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