Latest reports have surfaced that Valve Corporation is in the process of developing three Virtual Reality (VR) games. However, the company has no plans in publishing the games on the console.
In a roundtable discussion with media, to Valve Corporation founder and president, Gabe Newell confirmed that the company is developing not just one, but three VR games. As a side note, this is not Valve's first foray into the VR segment. It is noteworthy to report that Valve is the co-creator of the HTC Vive virtual reality headset.
It was also said during the roundtable, that the titles Valve Corporation plans to develop and eventually release are full titles unlike "The Lab," which is a minigame collection, the company made. Newell stressed when they say they are building three VR games, they are building three full VR games, and not experiments, , Ubergizmo reported.
Accordingly, Valve Corporation's plan to develop full VR games would allow for better entertainment experiences, Newell said. The focus, he added, is to develop better games and not be limited being in hardware. Valve Corporation seems ready to take bigger leaps and risks forward with the kind of games they intend to develop.
Fans that feared that their HTC Vive VR headsets would become paperweights can now be relieved. According to some fans, current VR content offerings are rubbish. This was echoed by Newell citing "Half-Life 2" and "Team Fortress" running on VR was a novelty with nothing compelling about them, according to Gameplanet. Others gamers suggest converting Valve Corporation's "Portal" to for VR.
Giving a fearless forecast, Newell said that VR displays would come at much higher resolutions and that a wireless VR would become the standard by 2018. As for publishing the games on console, Newell said Valve Corporation is not about to do so.
According to him, they get frustrated working in walled gardens. He also added that others might be successful in those environments; however, he stated that Valve Corporation's DNA tends not to work well when someone inserts a lot of process in between them and their customers.
Newell did not elaborate further details about the games Valve Corporation plan to develop, however, he did note that the games are being built on Source 2 and Unity engines.
