Capcom Keeps Bringing Resident Evil To VR – Here's How And Why

This is how the Resident Evil 4 remake was reinvented again for VR.

[Babadook7]

This hints at continued support for the VR versions of Resident Evil.

[Nerdmaster]

And Capcom, being Capcom, chooses to keep the VR versions limited to certain headsets in a niche that is already small.

[Babadook7]

They wouldn’t work well on Quest. Not the PlayStation versions at least. Also Sony seems to have helped fund these.

[StoriedGamer]

... Maybe not quest standalone due to power limitations, but you do know that all of the modern resident evil games including 2 and 3 remake (which dont have even have official VR versions) are available on PC and are arguably better in almost every way...

The porting process to VR with VR capable engines is so incredibly easy that the cost is negligible really. What's worse is having played the games on psvr and psvr2, the developers did a pretty shoddy job whereas the PC versions are better as the community tackled a lot of the issues in a matter of a few weeks...

[Babadook7]

@above.

This is simply not true. Compare RE8 praydog vs the native port to psvr2. The native port is an amazing experience. You’d never want to actually play the pc mod. It’s no where near as good. The performance is not good and is nauseating.

[StoriedGamer]

... In what ways is it nowhere near as good? On a decent system it runs incredibly well and even better if you have something good, pushing it way beyond what you get on the psvr2. I've literally played both, and on PC it not only looks better, but runs much better overall on pc. Additionally, you get even more games than the 3 official games over both psvr and psvr2 offered by Capcom (4, 7 which is only psvr compatible, and 8).

[Babadook7]

@above

It doesn't actually run better on the PC though. I've heard from many PC gamers who will flat out disagree with you. I've seen top end Nvidia cards drop to below 60 fps (no reprojection either). Hopefully you know the effect that Foveated Rendering has on VR performance.

How far did you make it in the story? If you really claim that the PC can compete on performance show me a professional reviewer who claims that who actually tested a large portion of the game. On top of the performance not being in PCs favour you've got a completely inferior level of interactivity.

[Profchaos]

Pretty sure it's because they were very well paid to do so in the past I'm sure there's a deal going because Sony sure isn't in a rush to produce games for their own headset
Plus the re games are fantastic in VR

[talocaca]

RE4 is absolutely stellar on PSVR2.

Hoping their next title supports it too 👏👏👏

[Babadook7]

Indeed. One of the guys seemed to be a big fan of VR.

And this bit pretty confirms there're plans for more RE VR projects.

Once they wrapped up the project, they realized VR was well-suited to the franchise. While they didn’t discuss specifics, Kumazawa says they “plan to undertake more challenges in the future.”

[Profchaos]

Was amazing I thought re8 was also just as good to.

[SmortBoie]

I'd give my left nipple for an official RE2R VR mode. Praydogs was good but the real deal would be incredible.
Shame they don't seem to have any interest going back to these releases. RE7VR even already exists just tweak it and pop it on PSVR2. Nnngggg.

[sammichosaurus]

Gotta get some VR experience soon.

[starsi360]

The REmakes are the absolute pinnacle of the industry when it comes to refreshing older, well loved content for a new audience. The best part of this news is that it will spur Capcom on to continue producting exceptional remakes and hopefully exceptional new entries too.

With this and bloober team doing good work on silent hill, the future is bright for this genre