Take-Two CEO: There Are Many Constraints to VR Gaming, Such As Having To Dedicate an Entire Room

Not everyone is equally excited about the advent of Virtual Reality in the gaming industry. Have-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick clearly belongs to this category, as he handsomely demonstrated his doubts that VR will really accept off in the industry while speaking to the Cowen and Company 44th Annual Applied science, Media & Telecom Conference at the New York Palace Hotel, before today.

Nosotros've highlighted the cardinal parts beneath.

If the consumer wants to swallow interactive entertainment with VR hardware, we'll have no trouble being in that place. We've been doing R&D for some time. We have relationships with anybody in the business. What we haven't nevertheless said is we're prepared on bet the farm on VR development without seeing what the marketplace looks like and what the appetite actually is and what the format looks like.

Nosotros're not incentivized to be at the frontline of development. We are actually incentivized to look and see a bit if at that place'south an installed base of operations, let the format settle down and let other people examination the market. So, we're quite happy to be a free rider - if at that place'due south a market, we'll get to the market in six to twelve months and we'll be just fine.

As information technology happens, I think there are numerous constraints for interactive entertainment.

It's way too expensive right at present. At that place is no market for a $2000 entertainment device that requires you lot to dedicate a room to the activity. I don't know what people could be thinking. Peradventure some of the people in this room take a room to dedicate to an amusement activity, merely back here in the real earth? That's not what we have in America.

Nosotros have like $300 to spend on an entertainment device and nosotros do not have a defended room. We have a room for a screen, a burrow, and controllers. We don't have something where you stand in a big open infinite and hold two controllers with something on your head and, you know, not crash into the coffee table. We don't have that. There are a number of constraints, as I said earlier.

I'm not unexcited, I'one thousand simply proverb, it but remains to be seen.

Well, it seems like we won't go to play Grand Theft Auto or Bioshock any time soon with VR hardware. Equally a reminder, the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are available now for PC, while PlayStation VR will release in October for PlayStation 4.

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