

This is likely due to technical limitations of the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro, but Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Ninja Theory could have also played a role. Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice VR Edition won’t be coming to PlayStation VR. If you’ve played Hellblade on a PlayStation 4, you know it’s one of the most visually stunning games on the system. These optimizations also enhanced the traditional versions of the game on both consoles and PC, and it shows. It took a team working at Ninja Theory two years of work to eventually achieve a 90 frames-per-second framerate on well-equipped PCs, which was the minimum the studio needed in order for the VR port to make sense. A set of movement rules eventually led to a solution most were comfortable with, and the team got to work implementing it into the third-person action game - unlike some other VR adaptations, Hellblade will still be played with Senua on the screen in VR. Ninja Theory actually began experimenting with virtual reality headsets in 2015 when it was developing the “vertical slice” of Hellblade, but the studio encountered nausea issues related to how the camera moved. You’ll need a pretty powerful PC to run Hellblade in VR, with Ninja Theory recommending at least a GeForce GTX 1080 GPU, which typically sell for more than $500. This has led PS Plus into a pattern as of late, but nonetheless, here are some games that will likely never appear on PS Plus.Coming to HTC Vive and Oculus Rift on July 31, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice VR Edition will be available for free to anyone who purchased the PC game on Steam already, and for those who plan to purchase it. Something that many people will notice is that third-party games make up the entirety of this list, meaning Sony is not one to shy away from adding its own games to the service whenever it deems fit. The reasons why some of these games may never appear on PS Plus range from unclear to ones motivated by industry politics.

However, even with fans being vocal about which games they’d like to see appear on the service, there are still a select number of titles that may never drop on PS Plus, ever. Although there are a few ways Sony could change up PS Plus for PS5 when that console launches later this year, the company will still likely continue its monthly tradition into the foreseeable future. Sony has been giving away games on a monthly basis to PS Plus subscribers for almost a decade now, and there aren’t any signs of it stopping.
