GTA VR Edition Unlikely To Happen

Then there are the headsets themselves, both of which are pretty pricey (The Rift costs $599 while the Vive goes for $799), which gets you the method of play but no actual games — which you need to buy separately. You probably didn't upgrade your rig and invested in a headset for just one game either, so add another hundred bucks to that.

On the space side of things, the Oculus gets a free pass so to say, since it is intended to be used while seated. The room-scale feature of the Vive, however, would have you dedicate a whole room to VR. While it is most certainly worth it, having a whole room just for VR activities is kinda ludicrous. What if you live in a flat, not a house?

It's way too expensive right now. There is no market for a $2000 entertainment device that requires you to dedicate a room to the activity. I don't know what people could be thinking. Maybe some of the people in this room have a room to dedicate to an entertainment activity, but back here in the real world? That's not what we have in America.

His opinion is pretty staunch and more than a little scathing. While his arguments make sense on paper, reality doesn't seem to back it up. High-end gaming PCs, though multi-functional can probably called entertainment devices because that's the reason for their expensive components, can easily cost around about two thousand bucks and there is a definite market for those too.

Plus VR happens to be more than a tad popular. Both the Rift and the Vive has enjoyed a pretty wide range of adoption despite being relatively new tech. Both consumers and developers are flocking to VR. So where is Zelnick coming from?

We have like $300 to spend on an entertainment device and we do not have a dedicated room. We have a room for a screen, a couch, and controllers. We don’t have something where you stand in a big open space and hold two controllers with something on your head–and not crash into the coffee table. We don’t have that.

He's coming from his audience. Take-Two games have always enjoyed the mainstream attention of the non-hardcore gaming crowd. A massive percentage of GTA 5 players, for example, aren't even "gamers". They either don't play anything else, or only other mainstream titles like sports games and Call of Duty. These consumers won't buy in.

While as a whole, VR is pretty popular, it hasn't broken out of its bubble yet and only a fraction of the VR audience would be interested in anything Take-Two would have to offer. For a company that grew on mainstream revenue, that isn't a sound business case.

Would you play a VR version of GTA 5?