The Last Guardian director is interested in VR? See you in 20 years

Ha

So The Last Guardian came out, was definitely a real thing, and seemed to have an overall positive reception among the community. Sure some people got miffed at Trico’s ornery demeanor, but I think a lot of folks recognized it as a beautiful, but flawed adventure.

What’s next then? Well, director Fumito Ueda , and he doesn’t seem to really know. He has his doubts about VR for one, but is interested in it, providing a fictional account of a Shadow of the Colossus VR game. Said doubts include potential motion sickness, and the lack of a real market (an interesting point, like he’s confirming that PSVR isn’t selling as well as Sony wants).

Because of these factors he’d only want to make a VR game if it made “business sense,” which, for the virtual reality market, might be a long while. Until they can get the price down on headsets and potential eliminate the wires (they’re working on both), I don’t see the average person dropping hundreds of dollars, before software and hardware, on the privilege.

It is neat though!

[Glixel]