Keep in mind when Meta, beforehand generally known as Fb, was going to take the web into three dimensions by recreating it in digital actuality because the metaverse? Ah, such occasions. Extra just lately, the social media firm has been scaling again its VR ambitions, and a VR remake of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that was introduced three years in the past after which by no means talked about once more seems to be the most recent casualty.
As first reported by IGN, the Oculus 2 port of the fifth sport within the massively common open-world sequence has been delayed, probably perpetually. Followers have been repeatedly asking Meta concerning the mission’s future, together with within the YouTube feedback of trailers for different Oculus video games like Behemoth, a fantasy motion journey about slaying large monsters.
“GTA: San Andreas is on maintain indefinitely whereas we each concentrate on different initiatives,” the Meta Quest VR’s YouTube account wrote within the feedback of a Behemoth pre-order trailer on August 15. “We look ahead to working with our pals at Rockstar sooner or later.” A spokesperson for Meta confirmed the change in an announcement to IGN.
The VR remake of GTA: San Andreas was initially introduced again at Meta’s 2021 Fb Join keynote deal with throughout a phase dedicated to Oculus video games. “This new model of what I believe is likely one of the best video games ever made will provide gamers a completely new method to expertise this iconic open world in digital actuality,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg defined on the time.
However neither Meta nor Rockstar Video games ever talked concerning the ambitious-sounding mission once more. Future keynotes got here and went with no point out of GTA in VR, whilst GTA followers, among the most obsessive in gaming, continued to demand updates. What else had been they alleged to do as they look ahead to any new morsel of information about Grand Theft Auto 6?
As of 2024, nonetheless, Meta has hit the breaks on its metaverse ambitions, pulling funding from a VR division that was actually burning by way of billions of {dollars} a month with little to point out for its funding apart from some new headsets and the occasional notable, critically-acclaimed sport. As an alternative, Meta, like numerous firms, has been pivoting its focus to the generative AI race the place new fortunes are being created and destroyed.
“Get a brand new perspective on Los Santos, San Fierro, and Las Venturas as you expertise (once more or for the primary time) one in all gaming’s most iconic open worlds,” Meta wrote in its authentic announcement. “It is a mission a few years within the making, and we are able to’t wait to point out you extra of it.”
GTA: San Andreas now appears like a mission a few years within the not-making. I assume which means no VR spin-off of GTA 6 both.
