Fallout 4 VR was one of the bigger announcements at this year's E3 show, but here we are close to six months later and there's still no sign of it out in the wild. Don't worry though, Bethesda has assured all of us that it is still working on it.
Indeed, it's trying to cram all of Fallout 4's expansive wasteland into the virtual world, which has proved difficult, but rewarding and the end result should be immersive, we're told.
"That’s the promise of VR, being in a big virtual world. The core experience, meaning you put on the headset and you’re standing in the world of Fallout and can go where you want, just that little bit is every bit as cool as you hope it would be. Once we did that, we were like, ‘OK, we gotta see where this goes,'" said Bethesda's Todd Howard (via ).
While he did admit that Bethesda wasn't entirely sure about how many copies of the VR version of the game it would sell, or if it would be a worthy investment for the developer, in actuality, that wasn't the goal of the project. Instead it was to give Bethesda experience in developing for virtual reality and that ultimately the market would sort itself out. Having a AAA game available to play is a much better hook for VR than many might realise.
Initially we were told that Fallout 4 VR would show up at the tail end of June next year, though really that remains up in the air. Howard wasn't particularly forthcoming about any revised dates, so we'll keep our fingers crossed for a 2017 debut.
