When requested about PS VR2 video games in improvement, Sony’s Insomniac Video games responded “We shouldn’t have plans for this.”
The response got here on X, and the context of the query was an Insomniac submit welcoming summer season interns.
UploadVR has reached out to Sony to verify that this implies Insomniac isn’t engaged on a PlayStation VR2 sport, and we’ll replace this text if we get a response.
We shouldn’t have plans for this.
— Insomniac Video games (@insomniacgames) Might 27, 2025
From its founding within the late 90s till 2016, Insomniac primarily developed PlayStation video games on contract from Sony, together with the Spyro, Resistance, and Ratchet & Clank collection.
Whereas it continued to launch just a few flatscreen PlayStation video games, from 2016 to 2019 Insomniac additionally launched 4 PC VR video games for the Oculus Rift on contract from Fb. So as, these had been:
- Fringe of Nowhere, a 3rd individual gamepad-controlled journey sport primarily based on H.P. Lovecraft’s On the Mountains of Insanity. It launched very quickly after the Rift itself, and is taken into account certainly one of its finest launch-window titles.
- Feral Rites, a 3rd individual gamepad-controlled brawler the place your character transforms into animals. It was not as nicely acquired because the studio’s different VR video games.
- The Unstated, a PvP magic dueling launch title for the Oculus Contact tracked controllers, thought of by many to be probably the greatest VR video games of all time.
- Stormland, a sprawling open-world action-adventure shooter with assist for two participant co-op. One of many few AAA made-for-VR video games obtainable on PC, it launched six months after the Rift S, and alongside the Oculus Hyperlink characteristic of the unique Oculus Quest.
Insomniac’s shut relationship with Fb led to rumors that the corporate would purchase it. However as an alternative it was Sony that acquired Insomniac, in 2019.
Sony Acquires Insomniac Video games
Insomniac Video games — the builders behind Sony’s PS4 megahit Spider-Man — are going to turn out to be a part of Sony Worldwide Studios. Sony’s acquisition of Insomniac turns the PS4 and PSVR maker into the proprietor of upcoming PC VR sport Stormland and a bunch of different VR and AR initiatives. Huge information:
Given Insomniac’s 4 Rift video games and the success of the unique PlayStation VR, many within the VR trade had anticipated Sony to leverage the studio to develop VR titles for a PlayStation VR2 on PS5 (each of which had been solely rumors on the time). Some had even hoped Insomniac may deliver its Rift video games over to PlayStation VR, although it is seemingly Fb owns these IPs.
None of this occurred, in fact. Insomniac’s VR video games stay completely on Meta’s PC VR retailer, and the studio hasn’t launched any VR sport on PlayStation. As an alternative, since acquisition, the studio has continued to launch Spider-Man and Ratchet & Clank flatscreen video games, and is at the moment engaged on a flatscreen Wolverine sport.
That Wolverine sport doesn’t but have a launch yr, nevermind date, suggesting Insomniac is totally centered on its improvement. And primarily based on the reply on X, it will not be getting PS VR2 assist, and neither is the studio engaged on a PS VR2 sport in secret.
Whereas Sony leveraged different PlayStation Studios to ship Horizon Name of the Mountain and Gran Turismo 7 in VR at PS VR2’s launch, since then the headset has primarily relied on third-party video games, aside from the My First Gran Turismo free-to-play launch.
Shuhei Yoshida: “I’m Sorry I Was Incorrect” About PS VR2
Former head of PlayStation Studios Shuhei Yoshida is “sorry” for being unsuitable about PlayStation VR2, although described his work on the unique as “probably the most enjoyable I had”.
Insomniac’s response comes 4 months after former Sony government Shuhei Yoshida mentioned he was “sorry” for being “unsuitable” about PS VR2. Since that assertion although, Sony has reduce the value of the headset from $550 to $400, and it is at the moment on sale for $350 for the following two weeks as a part of Days Of Play 2025.
PlayStation VR2 has additionally seen a gradual stream of main titles arrive over the previous yr, together with Metro Awakening, Alien: Rogue Incursion, Skydance’s Behemoth, and the unique new VR model of the Hitman: World Of Assassination Trilogy. Its new $400 value has seen builders report a noticeably bigger participant base, main others to port their Quest titles to the platform, together with just lately Ghosts of Tabor and UNDERDOGS.
