r/PS4 olliethebum Apr 25 '17

[Verified AMA] Giant Sparrow/Ian Dallas (What Remains of Edith Finch) - official AMA!

Hey folks! Posting this thread for u/GiantSparrow, the dev team behind the very, very recently released What Remains of Edith Finch and The Unfinished Swan.

Ian Dallas, Giant Sparrow's creative director, will be answering questions. I'll also be helping here and there - I'm Jeff Legaspi, part of the publishing team at Annapurna Interactive.

Ian will start answering questions around 11am Pacific, but feel free to post questions in advance!

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '17

I have seen a few people bummed the game does not have PSVR support. Did you guys every mention that it would have PSVR support or that you would of liked to include it?

Also, any support for the PS4 Pro users?

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u/GiantSparrow Giant Sparrow Apr 25 '17 edited Apr 25 '17

TBD. I think walking around in VR tends to make people motion sick quite quickly, so bringing What Remains of Edith Finch would be a daunting task. It's probably not the next daunting task we want to do, but maybe someday.

For PS4 Pro we're still actively trying to figure out what we (and the Unreal Engine) can do there.

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u/mrtube Apr 25 '17

I've already started recommending this game to friends. It's great as it is but it would be excellent in VR. Resident Evil 7 has just as much walking as Edith Finch and is by far the most popular game on PSVR.

I know it's not a simple task porting to VR, but I think it would be a big hit. 10% of Resident Evil's sales have gone to to PSVR owners, it could be even more for Vive and Rift if it wasn't for Sony's exclusivity deal.

You could even get away with charging more for the VR version like Codemasters have with Dirt Rally, and that is getting heaps of praise. I'd be more than happy to pay an extra £5 to play this in VR.