The Past, Present and Future...

Can you feel it...taste it...smell it? The PlayStation VR train is getting tuned up and ready. We are at the 45 day mark at the time of blog and honestly it has been a long time since Project Morpheus was announced on March 18, 2014.

On September 15, 2015, it was announced that Project Morpheus would be officially named PlayStation VR.

On October 8, 2015, Sony acquired SoftKinetic, a tech startup whose focus includes visual depth-sensing gesture recognition.

On November 2, 2015, Sony confirmed that they were still aiming for a release in the first half of 2016 (this was pushed back due to making sure they had the games and experiences to launch with PSVR).

On March 15, 2016, at the Game Developers Conference, Sony confirmed the release date will be in October 2016 with the price tag of $399 and $499 for the mega bundle. 

On June 15, 2016, Sony confirmed that the PlayStation VR headset will launch on Oct 13, 2016

Preorders that started in March were the fast selling hardware pre-orders at Gamestop ever. Sony opened up a second wave and within about 4 - 8 minutes it sold out. I love it when people on the mighty Internet will down play and throw out their comments that it will fail. Either they haven't tried it, they tried and because they didn't pre-order when they had the chance and now that it is sold out they cannot get one so they continue to have a negative attitude about it or it may simply they cannot get one when it comes out. Sure there are demos at Best buy and Gamestop (click the link to find one near you). 

All I know ever since seeing movies like these among others...

Allowed me to think and with a smile...some day...some day.

But let's go back if we will to probably what really started the ideas flowing and wouldn't be cool if this happens. There was a movie called The Lawnmower Man and if you have never seen it, I would totally recommend it. Even though it came out in 1992, if you have a chance watch it...not for the acting...not for the graphics...but for the concept.

But turn back some time and we have one movie that started it and that was Tron. Even back in the 1982 this movie flipped it. What if we were in the game trying to survive? 

But when Tron Legacy came out in 2010 it just rekindled that thought about that this will happen.

I knew one day even though VR has been attempted in the past such as The Nintendo Virtual Boy which was released on July 21, 1995 and discontinued the same year on December 22, 1995. Why? Well anyone who had one ( I had one) will tell you was because it made you sick and gave you headaches. It wasn't that the unit itself was bad per say, but the red and black colors of all the games is what made your eyes water and your head started to hurt.

But when Tron came out and in the movie that had tanks and seeing that at that time was really amazing...

Now let's move a little to the present which who knows what could happen with this series, we have Battlezone coming out on PSVR on Day 1...October 13, 2016.

All I know is come October 13th, 2016 when I get my PlayStation VR and Battlezone I will be streaming music while play and listening to

It just goes to show what the thought of maybe one day to the idea of what if to how you truly imagined it to be and is finally being available for you to experience.

Did more fuel just get added to the PlayStation VR train?

Wow a lot of things happened this week at Gamescom 2016. We had some official release dates along with some box art reveals.


Battlezone is coming out day 1 on Oct 13th on both physical and psn dl. No word on price yet, but will update as soon as it is announced. This is a day 1 buy for me as this is the Tron tank game I have been waiting for.

Eagle Flight got a release date of Nov. 15th for the physical release, but if you would rather have the digital version, you can get it one week earlier on Nov. 8th on PSN. Price is $39.99.

Star Trek Bridge Crew VR is coming out Dec. 6th for a cost of $59.99

And also from Ubisoft is Werewolves Within coming out Dec. 6th for $29.99.

Rez Infinite is getting a very limited physical release with an October ship date. The only way to get this is from the UK store Iam8bit.com for $39.99 that will cost more than the psn game itself because it is a physical copy, but depending on the shipping you select, it could be $5.00 shipping regular mail and depending how long the USPS will take to ship from the UK to you or if you want it as fast as possible you can select the Fed Ex 2 day and add $42.89 on top of the $39.99 for a total of around $82.88. So it just depends if you want a physical or if you are ok with the regular psn dl at the lower cost.

    

It looks like like PlayStation VR won best hardware at Gamescom and best casual game was won by none other Battlezone. Congratulations!

Until next time...I hope everyone has a great weekend and week and for a lot of us we will have someone in our lives that will be starting school on Monday. Remember it's a big day for them and they will be excited, so let's be calm, enthousiastic 

Less than two months

We are finally at the under two months mark. Gamescom is this week and hopefully we will have more release dates and see which titles are PSN download only titles or retail versions or both. I added some links to to the official websites to help us read up on our favorite experiences and games coming out or just watch some trailers to help pass the time. Until then, everyone have a great week and remember to game on.

Gamescom 2016

Next week at Gamescom there will be 17...yes 17 PSVR games able to try. Now why most of us will not be able to travel out of the country to experience this, it will give us a good idea of the launch line up (not all will be in the U.S. This will also give us a chance to see what other people think about the games and experiences. This list is as follows:

Batman Arkham VR
Battlezone
Bound VR
EVE Valkyrie
Farpoint
Hatsune Miku: VR Future Live
Headmaster
Here They Lie
Hustle Kings VR
The Playroom VR
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
RIGS. Mechanized Combat League
Robinson: The Journey
Until Dawn: Rush of Blood
Super Stardust Ultra VR
Tumble VR

Hatzune should be only available over seas...import anyone? Resident Evil 7 comes out in January.

So that means 15 out of the 17 are supposed to be out for October 13th, except Bound which comes out August 16th. It's going to be an expensive, but awesome October 13th.

The Wait

Here we are less than 65 days and it seems just like yesterday that some of us preordered PSVR and some of us preordered on day 1 back in March. Some of you may have even tried PSVR at your local Bestbuy or Gamestop and others may be holding off and waiting to experience it for the first time in your own home. For those that have tried it I hope it was everything you expected and more. For me I am one of those who are waiting to try it at home. I did however go by my local Bestbuy and just wanted to feel how light it was and wow, light as feather. I honestly cannot wait to try this.

Now it seems we must wait for more information when it comes to when the games we want to experience will be available for preorder either in store or on PSN. Games like Rush Of Blood are available to preorder on Amazon UK, but in the U.S., where is it? Even on the PSN store, if you search for Rush Of Blood, you will see that even Sony has it listed to come out October 13th, but not able to preorder

So the news is that on September 7th, the Playstation Neo will be announced. We don't know a cost, but could be more than a PS4. Question would be when will the 4k content come out. Some of us do not even own a 4k TV, but I am interested in seeing how this will help with PSVR when the current PS4 can run PSVR. Will you be buying one or waiting and see how it all turns out?

No Man's Sky also comes out today and I don't know why this game is not in VR. It seems like the perfect fit. Maybe a patch can be added later...maybe there will be a special version that will be released. At this point it needs to happen. I know the recent leaks could damper some of the sales and opinions. I had the game pre ordered, but cancelled it not because of leaks, but because I was able to pre order more vr games and since there is no way to visit every planet, I don't mind waiting.

Well hopefully we get more games and experiences that we are able to pre order either at your local retail place or even on PSN, but until then we will just have to wait.