 Hey there lads and ladies, it is Petrifying Pumpkins here and today I want to make a video about the future. The next generation Playstation Virtual Ryazi heads us. Now the PS viewer that we have right now is actually 5 years old today, today is the 5th anniversary and we've all had a good 5 years I would say. We've had some ups, we've had some downs but overall it's been a good bit of gear. Now that we're approaching the end of its life cycle, we're looking towards the horizon, we're looking at 4K screen, we're looking at boosted performance, proper hardware pushing this thing, we're looking at proper controllers that actually are top of the line instead of the glow sticks that we have now that are trash, we're looking towards hybrid games, we're looking towards all these things and some of those things have been confirmed, some of those things have been leaked by Without Parole and some of them have been speculated on but you know we're pretty sure we're getting a lot of us, if not all of us and that sounds fantastic. What we don't know however is when Sony are actually going to reveal this thing, we don't know what it looks like, we don't know how much it's going to be, we don't know when it's released and we don't even have a name for it yet, we're all kind of calling it the PS viewer 2 or the PS5 viewer or the next generation PS viewer, you know a lot of these names going around but all those questions will presumably be answered whenever Sony do have some kind of an event but what about the games that they're going to show us at this event, whenever this event happens, these games are going to have to get us really excited for the future of PlayStation Virtual Reality and that's what I want to do in this video is I want to look at these things, I want to speculate, I want to predict the games that we might see at this event, this reveal event whenever it comes around. Some of these predictions are going to be you know, educated guesses based on rumors that are flying around and things like that, some of them are going to be wishful thinking and some of them will just be like logical I think. So my first guess, my first prediction is a game that I think is actually going to be a safe enough, best although there are people out there who would you know be pretty vehement, that's not common I would say half life addicts, I think that's what we're going to see at the reveal event, half life is a huge IP from a huge developer and well I will admit it's not as relevant these days as it was 10 or 15 years ago and maybe you know younger audiences might not care about it as much as we would but half life is a big name, it's a big IP and it is beloved. So all Sony have to do is come to some kind of arrangement with Valve and I should know that Valve have openly came out and said, well I'll read the quotes, it's from a push square interview, I'll have it up on the screen now, designer Greg Coomer reconfirms that the initial release of Half Life Alyx will be available for Steam VR only, it definitely sounds like Valve is aware of the desire to see the game come to PSVR however, we believe Sony's VR platform has been a huge success for the medium and we assume that lots of Sony customers would love to experience this new chapter of half life, that's a Valve developer saying that, I mean you would not say that unless you're very very open to the idea of these Sony customers getting to experience half life, you know, as far as I'm concerned it's a done deal, the only potential issue I can see here is the fact that Sony have like a very close relationship with Epic games recently and Epic and Valve have become rivals in a way ever since the Epic game store came along to compete with Steam, so maybe there's a bit of you know sour milk going on there but I don't think so, I think it's, I don't think Valve will be that spiteful towards Sony and in fact I think that if the PSVR that we have now if that was powerful enough and if it had the controllers that were good enough I think we'd already be playing Half Life Alyx on PSVR, unfortunately we didn't have that hardware but that's gonna change and in fact I think that's gonna be true of a loss of PC VR exclusives, that's why my next prediction isn't gonna be just one game but a bunch because you know I'm predicting we're gonna see these PC VR games that maybe wanted to come to PSVR, maybe the developers actually tried to make it happen but they just couldn't fit enough clowns into the clown care to make it actually work, so those games I think they will come and I'm talking about games like Boneworks and if I remember correctly the developer for that game is actually tweezing about you know his interest in bringing us to PSVR too or whatever it's gonna be called I'd also put Fallout 4 in the mix there I know that IP is now owned by Microsoft so maybe that makes it a little bit less likely however keep in mind there's another version of Skyrim coming to PS5 this year you know Fallout 76 just came to PlayStation now this month so you know Microsoft are definitely not holding Bethesda back on at least certain releases so the fact that Fallout 4 is already made all they'd have to do is ported over the PlayStation I think you know there's a high chance that could happen then there's the kind of smaller scale PC VR stuff your games like Phasmophobia your blades and your sorceries those kind of games now I know those games are still early access they're still being developed but I would not be surprised if we see like a little teaser little trailer saying coming soon even or something like that because I can't imagine Sony is like not approaching these developers these small indie developers and saying hey doesn't have to be launch day or whatever but sign up with us and we get your game into more people's houses you get more cash you know so my next prediction is that we are going to see PlayStation 5 games that will have already been released or some games that are even already out now that will be getting updates or patches to turn them into hybrid games so immediately what springs to mind Gran Turismo 7 Resident Evil Ace I mean the sky is the limit here in terms of speculation it's all going to come down to you know how many checks Sony are willing to rise to these third-party developers to make these updates happen Gran Turismo 7 seems pretty much guaranteed based on the history of Gran Turismo sport the fact that Sony actually own it so they can you know they can force it if they really wanted to then you've got Resident Evil Ace again Resident Evil 7 was such a success I find it hard to believe that Sony wouldn't make the exact same deal with Capcom again to make you know Resident Evil 8 happen on VR now a lot of us are probably already expecting Gran Turismo 7 and Resident Evil Ace but I think we're gonna be hit with some kind of megaton announcements from third parties that are maybe going to get us really hyped or really surprise us or wow us and I'm talking about games like GTA 5 Red Dead Redemption 2 maybe even Sony have great relationships with Activision Epic so why not some Battle Royale games like Warzone, Fortnite these things could happen and even if it's not Battle Royale or whatever or Warzone you've got such a good relationship with Activision and Call of Juicy that's you know could be a standalone Call of Juicy title maybe Vanguard gets a VR optional hybrid mode or whatever and of course we know thanks to job listings that Rock Stair are working on a AAA open-world virtual reality game so while it is possible that is a new IP I think it's probably more likely that it is a port of either GTA 5 or Red Dead or something like that so either of those being there is gonna be very exciting we could really get lost in the weeds you know going over every single third-party game or big game because this is what it's gonna be about like Sony are gonna want to have these big names these recognizable brands that's gonna hook people in this is how you make a mainstream so yeah four nights even if you don't like your four nights or your colleges these are your GTA's they're still important and I think we should all want them plenty of other games is there as well you know that could be in contention your Rainbow Six's Rocket League Destiny 2 all these big games big names well-known things that would help the medium grow so next up then I want to take a look at Sony's own in-house first-party stuff and I'll start with Horizon virtual reality so this is a game that we've been talking about on the channel for maybe it feels like years now it was first leaked as a game that Sony London were working on and then everything went quiet and then it reappeared again as another leak that fire sprites were working on Horizon VR and then things went quiet again and then Sony acquired fire sprites so that kind of reinforced my belief that yes something's going on there so I think that's all adding up to me I think Sony gathered the fire sprites maybe they saw what fire sprite were doing they were really impressed with what's going on there and that's why they decided to acquire them because that acquisition kind of felt like it came out of nowhere fire sprite did have experience making the persistence but that was kind of really ace when it comes to collaboration with exclusives with PlayStation so that kind of came out of nowhere so Sony must have seen something that they're very excited by or something that they like the look of at fire sprites hence acquiring them and in fact I think if I had to guess of what game is going to end the show because when it comes to these shows these conferences or whatever they always have like a big bomb at the very end you know one more thing I think Horizon VR will be that big showstop or whatever it's a big IP it's you know broadly recognizable and it's probably gonna look pretty impressive in terms of other first-party studios we know Sony London have a very strong history with PSVR we know they're hiring we know they're working on something and I think they'll probably have something ready to show in time seasons it's been quite a while since we've heard anything from them from blood and truth they did a bit of DLC they've gone silent they've been hiring I think they might have at least a teaser something to show Insomniac and team is so they then are two other first-party studios with some heritage of virtual reality now Insomniac have so much under place that's I think if we do see Insomniac there it will be to confirm that's either Spider-Man 2 and or Wolverine will be hybrid games I can't see them coming out and announcing another brand new game which is like the or only however as I say this you know Insomniac have been surprising everyone with you know how much they're able to output so I'm not sure how many teams I don't think anyone knows how many teams they have over there they seem to have a bunch so it's possible they do have a dedicated VR team and they might have something to show I will not rule that out but on the other hand then team is so be their history is with Astro boss they recently released the PS5 launch game Astro's playroom I don't think they'll have something ready in time they're not a big studio like Insomniac they recently even formed like team is so be used to be you know they're made up of what was PlayStation Japan PlayStation Japan dissolved so they all got restructured around I'm not sure they'll be ready to have something to show I'd like to be wrong of course another Astro boss would be fantastic my next prediction then is a bit of a wild-cared prediction PlayStation home virtual reality not really a game but kind of you know an app something like that it's a social space it existed on the PS3 it wasn't a massive success although it does have a loyal following it was kind of weird but if PC viewer has taught us anything and if you know viewer chas has taught us anything it's that social spaces and virtual reality are like a match made in heaven so it seems like an easy fit this seems like the best way if PlayStation home is ever going to come back surely virtual reality is the way to do is it just makes the most sense to me and there's definitely loads of potential there so my final prediction then I've saved the best for last first contact entertainment tease firewall to first of all let me say quickly that I am a community moderator for first contact entertainment and I have got a good relationship with that studio and you know there's obviously some bias there I'm kind of a fanboy of that channel but not without good reason you know most of the people watching this now who know me know me because of firewall zero hour you know that I really got into that game and kind of got obsessed with it for a while and I can build channel around that or built it up at least so obviously an X-Gen firewall is something I really really want to see and it's something we've already been speculating about on this channel here based on some recent job listings from first contact entertainment the reason why this might be more wishful thinking and kind of unrealistic is because they did just release Solaris this year on psvr and they're not like a massive studio that I'm not sure how many teams they have but I think it's just the one team they're not like insomniac you have like you know 300 employees and God knows how many teams but on the other hand you know Solaris was a port of a 2020 game and if we look at what has happened since then in terms of post launch support Solaris hasn't really had like a huge amount of content added to the game in terms of like maps and characters and weapons and stuff like that it's kind of just been a few smaller things and fixes and updates and stuff like that you know Solaris in general just felt smaller scale compared to something like firewall and then if we look at firewall itself you know they're still supporting firewall with seasons boss those seasons have been you know downscaled in scope compared to the seasons that we were used to so we're not seeing maps anymore we're not seeing weapons or contractors or skills or isms really all we're seeing is new missions to keep us you know give us something to do and some cosmetics and even the cosmetics then they're not new assets they're more pallets so like different colors different smoke colors and different you know versions of camouflages that were already created so you have to ask yourself what are the people at first contact doing who make these assets and of course they're hiring for this other mysterious next-gen game so obviously they're working on something else now will it be ready in time to show as this event whenever this event might be who knows that's why it's kind of like a wild card guess but even if they just showed like a five-second CGI glimpse of like you know okoro or something like that and then the logo appears on screen firewall too that'll be enough for me you know lose my mind if you're looking for any more like evidence that they might be doing another firewall you would have to look at this graph I have here which shows the top 10 grossing virtual reality only games globally as of September 2020 so as you can see at the bottom here is firewall zero hour which is really impressive for a game that just released only on psv or it is 10th globally and we're talking about it's up there with the heavy hitters beat saber you know job same here so those games that like never come off the charts so firewall is very successful at least in terms of grossing you'd have to imagine if Sony have any sense at all the second they've decided to green-lice psv or two or the next gen viewer headsets one of their like top priorities must be at least reaching out to first contact and seeing if they can get a sequel you know if I was in Sony's position I'd be trying to buy first contact entertainment but I'm not unfortunately I just hope Facebook don't do this before we get a chance to see anything from them so anyway those are my predictions for a next-gen PlayStation virtual reality event if we get 10% of what I just said I'll be happy I think predicting when this actual event will take place is a whole other kettle of fish or whatever the saying is let me know your predictions what you think we might see is there anything obvious I missed in the comments below as well as you know maybe what you thought about the predictions I did make and with that I will end this video but before I do let me thank the patreon supporters his names are on the screen as we speak thanks to 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