One of many authentic greatest video games for Meta Quest 1 will not assist the growing older VR headset and can as an alternative consider later fashions.
The sport that helped promote so many VR headsets again within the day, Beat Saber, is lastly pulling assist for the unique Oculus / Meta Quest 1 headset, citing its lack of energy and creating for newer tech as a greater use of the dev group’s time.
Beat Saber has been a staple of nearly each headset because the Oculus Rift however with the Quest 3 performing so properly in the previous couple of months and bringing with it a lot extra energy, it’s maybe an inevitable finish for the Quest 1’s model. Extra pertinently it maybe indicators the precise dying knell for the unique standalone headset.
The official Beat Saber account on X posted: “Pricey gamers, to focus our improvement efforts on our subsequent initiatives inside Beat Saber, we’ll not assist Meta Quest 1 as of November 2, 2024. The sport will proceed to be playable, however Multiplayer performance will cease and Leaderboards could be phased out sooner or later.”
Pricey gamers, to focus our improvement efforts on our subsequent initiatives inside Beat Saber, we’ll not assist Meta Quest 1 as of November 2, 2024. The sport will proceed to be playable, however Multiplayer performance will cease and Leaderboards could be phased out sooner or later. pic.twitter.com/h7Jefa3g75
— Beat Saber (@BeatSaber) Might 6, 2024
So it seems that whereas the sport will stay playable in some kind, Quest 1 gamers will lose entry to multiplayer and, going ahead, Leaderboards.
Over the weekend Beat Sabre was additionally made cross-playable which means folks (like me) who had purchased it on the Oculus Rift all these years in the past on PC may now add it to their Quest libraries without spending a dime.
For a sport that has been out for thus lengthy Beat Saber actually has been a bastion of VR gaming and not too long ago obtained a Daft Punk music pack. It will likely be attention-grabbing to see the place it heads now that the Quest 1 is deemed not highly effective sufficient to maintain up.
Whereas most gamers had been pragmatic, the response thread was nonetheless scattered with these upset in regards to the choice:
“Guess I’m not taking part in Beat Saber anymore. Disgrace. I don’t intend to spend one other 400 on a headset. Multiplayer is a part of the playability issue. You’re taking that away it’s like 50% of performance that provides to the sport vs. taking part in solo.”
The Quest 1 got here out some 5 years in the past in 2019 so is now displaying indicators of age, particularly when in comparison with the Quest 3. It appears as if the headset is destined to vanish from our desktops now, quite rapidly we’d suspect.
