Meta is pulling the plug on multiplayer help in Beat Saber for the unique Quest headset.
Beginning November 2, Beat Saber on the unique Quest headset will not be capable to entry multiplayer. The headset bought from 2019 to 2020 when it was changed by Quest 2. Fb purchased the studio behind the sport in 2019, with Beat Video games kicking off a sequence of VR gaming acquisitions within the push towards Horizon.
Quest 2 launched in 2020 and Quest 3 late 2023 and Beat Saber multiplayer continues to attach gamers from Steam to PlayStation VR2 headsets. The sport will nonetheless be accessible on authentic Quest headsets “however Multiplayer performance will cease and Leaderboards could be phased out sooner or later.” The reasoning is given as “to focus our growth efforts on our subsequent initiatives inside Beat Saber”.
Meta began the formal technique of warning consumers Quest 1 was heading towards obsolescence final yr.
Beat Saber’s co-founders left the corporate and Downpour Interactive’s founder didn’t wait lengthy earlier than leaping from Meta. Meta’s Camouflaj acquisition purchased the platform the just-announced Batman: Arkham Shadow and Asgard’s Wrath 2 remains to be seeing new content material releases, however what’s going on with the opposite half dozen studios Meta acquired over the previous few years?
We’ll have updates as quickly as we get them on Meta’s long-brewing efforts in VR gaming as they go toe-to-toe with Google and Apple this yr. In what could also be a telling actuality in regards to the lengthy journey from Oculus Rift to Horizon OS at Fb and Meta, although, Beat Saber multiplayer ought to nonetheless be playable on the unique Oculus Quest after November 2 beneath a particular state of affairs — in the event you play it from the place the place it began — streaming from PC.
In different phrases, 1 % of SteamVR remains to be utilizing an authentic Quest and any of them nonetheless utilizing that to drive Beat Saber by way of the Rift Retailer or Steam ought to be unaffected by this transformation.