One of PSVR’s most promising upcoming games may not get support for the headset’s excellent Aim controller, but hope is not lost.
VentureBeat recently spoke to Sony London’s Director of VR Product Development, Stuart Whyte, about the studio’s newest game, Blood And Truth. The PSVR exclusive is a first-person shooter (FPS) set in London’s gritty streets in which you take on gangsters. Currently we’ve only seen the game running with two PlayStation Move motion controllers, but could we also see the rifle-shaped Aim controller supported?
“It’s a great question,” Whyte said when asked. “We’ve optimized our experience around two Move controllers currently, as it allows you to intuitively use both hands in play. We don’t have anything else to share on Aim at this moment.”
It takes a bit of reading between the lines but, to us at least, Whyte’s answer certainly suggests Aim support could happen at some point down the line. Given that Blood And Truth is one of the biggest PSVR games on the horizon right now, it seems strange to us that Sony wouldn’t use the game to promote the Aim controller, which already makes FPS games like Farpoint and the upcoming Firewall: Zero Hour so compelling.
Still, as Whyte said, Blood And Truth has clearly been optimized for the dual-wielding Move controllers from what we’ve seen before. That doesn’t mean we couldn’t see an Arizona Sunshine-style reworking, though, that switches our pistols for rifles depending on what controller you’re using. We’ll keep our fingers crossed as we await the game’s launch date.
