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Is beatsaber a meta exclusive? I appreciate lack of motion controllers announced, but that doesn't mean there wont be any, and maybe hand controls are enough fo

Is beatsaber a meta exclusive? I appreciate lack of motion controllers announced, but that doesn't mean there wont be any, and maybe hand controls are enough for beatsaber?

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seanmcdirmid 3y ago
Meta bought the company that makes BeatSaber so I assume it is at this point. But without controllers and haptic feedback it wouldn’t be very fun anyways.
- mrbungie 3y ago
  Assuming Vision Pro has powerful sensors and computer platform, controllers could be dumber and then easier to make (and eventually part of a bigger ecosystem that may extend the Vision Pro with 3rd party hardware).
teolandon 3y ago
It's not a meta exclusive. Not sure why there's so many comments assuming that it is, it's one google search away.
- mynameisvlad 3y ago
  Yeah, it’s pretty clear that it’s available on all major VR platforms including PlayStation. They made it clear when they bought it that it will not become exclusive. > Beat Games will continue to ship content and updates for Beat Saber across all currently supported platforms, now with even more support from Facebook. https://www.meta.com/blog/quest/welcoming-beat-games-to-facebook/ https://www.meta.com/blog/quest/welcoming-beat-games-to-face... I guess it’s easier to just guess and hope you’re right but it literally took seconds to find.
  - seanmcdirmid 3y ago
    It was supported on PlayStation before Meta bought them, and they promised to continue supporting it on PlayStation. But that promise probably doesn’t include new platforms from other players.
    - mynameisvlad 3y ago
      The question asked was whether it’s a meta exclusive. The answer is unequivocally no. Will it be released on Apple Vision? Maybe. But that was not the question asked and incorrectly answered by multiple people, yourself included. FWIW, I don’t think it will be, but not because of exclusivity. Haptics is indeed a big part of what makes it fun and Apple has made it clear that there won’t be controllers, at least at launch.
      - seanmcdirmid 3y ago
        It wasn’t an exclusive before Meta bought them, and even the new PSVR2 version they recently released is just a recompile. So…where do you think Meta’s interest is? It sounds like they made a promise to support the PlayStation, and that won’t extend to Apple.
        mynameisvlad 3y ago
        The fact that they released it for PSVR2, years after the purchase, shows that it still isn’t an exclusive. They didn’t have to do that. It doesn’t matter that it was just a recompile, it’s not the same platform as the PSVR and requires work to publish and maintain. I’m not sure how you could know that fact and yet still claim it is. Hell, they could’ve actually made it an exclusive when they bought it and nobody would have been able to stop them. That it was kept on all platforms and released on new platforms since shows it very clearly was and is not. The question, once again, isn’t where Meta’s interest is. It isn’t if it’s going to be released on Apple Vision or not. None of that matters. The question was simple: is it an exclusive? The answer is also simple: no. A few seconds of searching would have easily revealed that, but you chose to assume instead, and it ended up being wrong. Let it go.

Is beatsaber a meta exclusive? I appreciate lack of motion controllers announced, but that doesn't mean there wont be any, and maybe hand controls are enough for beatsaber?

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seanmcdirmid 3y ago

Meta bought the company that makes BeatSaber so I assume it is at this point. But without controllers and haptic feedback it wouldn’t be very fun anyways.

mrbungie 3y ago
Assuming Vision Pro has powerful sensors and computer platform, controllers could be dumber and then easier to make (and eventually part of a bigger ecosystem that may extend the Vision Pro with 3rd party hardware).

teolandon 3y ago

It's not a meta exclusive. Not sure why there's so many comments assuming that it is, it's one google search away.

mynameisvlad 3y ago
Yeah, it’s pretty clear that it’s available on all major VR platforms including PlayStation. They made it clear when they bought it that it will not become exclusive. > Beat Games will continue to ship content and updates for Beat Saber across all currently supported platforms, now with even more support from Facebook. https://www.meta.com/blog/quest/welcoming-beat-games-to-facebook/ https://www.meta.com/blog/quest/welcoming-beat-games-to-face... I guess it’s easier to just guess and hope you’re right but it literally took seconds to find.
- seanmcdirmid 3y ago
  It was supported on PlayStation before Meta bought them, and they promised to continue supporting it on PlayStation. But that promise probably doesn’t include new platforms from other players.
  - mynameisvlad 3y ago
    The question asked was whether it’s a meta exclusive. The answer is unequivocally no. Will it be released on Apple Vision? Maybe. But that was not the question asked and incorrectly answered by multiple people, yourself included. FWIW, I don’t think it will be, but not because of exclusivity. Haptics is indeed a big part of what makes it fun and Apple has made it clear that there won’t be controllers, at least at launch.
    - seanmcdirmid 3y ago
      It wasn’t an exclusive before Meta bought them, and even the new PSVR2 version they recently released is just a recompile. So…where do you think Meta’s interest is? It sounds like they made a promise to support the PlayStation, and that won’t extend to Apple.
      - mynameisvlad 3y ago
        The fact that they released it for PSVR2, years after the purchase, shows that it still isn’t an exclusive. They didn’t have to do that. It doesn’t matter that it was just a recompile, it’s not the same platform as the PSVR and requires work to publish and maintain. I’m not sure how you could know that fact and yet still claim it is. Hell, they could’ve actually made it an exclusive when they bought it and nobody would have been able to stop them. That it was kept on all platforms and released on new platforms since shows it very clearly was and is not. The question, once again, isn’t where Meta’s interest is. It isn’t if it’s going to be released on Apple Vision or not. None of that matters. The question was simple: is it an exclusive? The answer is also simple: no. A few seconds of searching would have easily revealed that, but you chose to assume instead, and it ended up being wrong. Let it go.