Meta-owned Beat Video games introduced its block-slashing rhythm recreation Beat Saber (2019) will now not obtain updates on PSVR and PSVR 2 beginning in the present day, with multiplayer slated to go offline early subsequent 12 months.
The studio introduced in an X put up that PS4/PS5 variations of the sport will now not be up to date, efficient instantly, as Beat Video games seems “to the long run and plan[s] the following huge leap for Beat Saber.”
Beat Video games say gamers on PSVR and PSVR 2 will proceed to have the ability to play and buy Beat Saber after in the present day, which incorporates entry to beforehand bought content material, akin to the sport’s library of paid DLC music packs.
Music packs launched previous to June 18th will all be obtainable, nonetheless “no new content material can be launched on these platforms after that date,” the studio says, noting that cross-buy will stay lively between the PS4 and PS5 base recreation.
This makes PlayStation’s final obtainable Beat Saber DLC Girl Gaga’s ‘Abracadabra’, which was launched as a paid ‘Shock Drop’ single on June fifth.
Moreover, assist for multiplayer is being pulled on PS4/PS5 beginning January twenty first, 2026, the studio says.
Multiplayer was launched in 2020 on PC VR and Quest variations of the sport, with cross-play launched a 12 months later; cross-play between totally different ecosystems by no means made it to the PlayStation model of the sport, nonetheless.
Whereas it’s clear Quest will proceed to learn from future DLC releases and updates—Meta’s Quest platform alone has accounted for greater than 10 million unit gross sales of Beat Saber—the studio says there may also be “no modifications to Steam assist; music releases will proceed to be shared on Steam.”
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Whereas Meta doesn’t all the time play good with competing corporations, it has supported Beat Saber on PSVR since late 2018, making the choice to drag future updates telling of a decidedly deserted ecosystem.
Since PSVR 2’s February 2023 launch, Sony has largely taken a again seat on releasing system-selling exclusives prefer it did with authentic 2-16 PSVR. Virtually like a self-fulfilling prophecy, builders have consequently deprioritized PSVR 2 assist through the years—or skipped it fully—in favor of releasing on comparatively bigger set up bases, akin to Quest and SteamVR.
What’s extra, within the meantime Sony has ‘parted out’ PSVR 2, in a way of talking. Now, headset house owners can freely play PC VR video games with an elective wired adapter—completely antithetical to the closed console mannequin—and shortly, use their PSVR 2 Sense Controllers with Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional too.
