{"id":25497,"date":"2023-03-01T12:44:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T12:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/is-vr-gaming-destined-to-remain-niche\/"},"modified":"2023-03-01T12:44:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T12:44:49","slug":"is-vr-gaming-destined-to-remain-niche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/is-vr-gaming-destined-to-remain-niche\/","title":{"rendered":"Is VR gaming destined to remain niche?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nWe&#8217;re hot off the launch of PSVR2, and whilst it&#8217;s received glowing reviews from our own  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/psvr2-review-a-vr-enthusiasts-dream\">VR expert Ian<\/a> and the tech wizards at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/digitalfoundry-2023-sony-playstation-vr2-the-digital-foundry-hardware-review\">Digital Foundry<\/a> , it&#8217;s fair to say most people haven&#8217;t bought one.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLooking within the Eurogamer team, you can count the number of people who own any VR headset on one hand. According to estimations shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reggie\/status\/1630662522016772096\"> former president of  Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aim\u00e9<\/a> and calculated by online business platform Statista, only 1.3 percent of the world&#8217;s population will own some form of VR hardware this year. By their projections, in 2027 that percentage will have plateaued out at 1.7 precent, whilst the percentage of people playing video games in any form will jump from 45 to 51.3 percent in the same timeframe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo what&#8217;s going on? Why isn&#8217;t half the world enjoying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ians-top-11-psvr2-launch-games-that-you-should-play-right-now\">scaling mountains in the world of Horizon or getting  stepped on by Lady Dimitrescu<\/a>?\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/is-vr-gaming-destined-to-remain-niche\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re hot off the launch of PSVR2, and whilst it&#8217;s received glowing reviews from our own VR expert Ian and the tech wizards at Digital Foundry , it&#8217;s fair to say most people haven&#8217;t bought one. 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