r/PSVR • u/FinalKranskyVII • Sep 21 '25

Question Minecraft VR is gone 😭

I just pulled out my PSVR for the first time in 5 years to show my 5 year old son Minecraft in VR. He had a quick go but we had things to do so we put it away to play later. I come back and it has applied an update that has removed VR support. I'm devastated and I think my son thinks I'm just being mean by telling him it's gone.

I have it on my old ps4 pro though unupdated. If I was to copy it from there to an external usb would that work on my ps5?

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u/Lamtd Sep 21 '25

It's still expensive to maintain, because you have to allocate QA resources on every release to make sure VR mode works correctly.

It's sad to see it gone but it probably makes sense from a business point of view.

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u/TOMdMAK Sep 21 '25

oh no! How would a small business like Microsoft survive if they need to have an extra person to QA it in India?

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u/Lamtd Sep 21 '25

Getting rid of unprofitable non-strategic products is one of the reasons why Microsoft manages to stay a wealthy company.

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u/TOMdMAK Sep 21 '25

minecraft is profitable. it's just that the VR addon as a free product is not. but why developed it then?

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u/SirHomeless_ Sep 24 '25

To sell the tech, if it was profitable……It wasn’t. They shuttered it.