The month in games: PlayStation Virtual Reality is almost here

Sony are hoping to buck the trend of flagging VR sales with its new console , while Deus Ex proves there's life yet in the dystopian gaming genre

If you did your growing up in the 20th century, the chances are your youthful predictions for 2016 would have involved colonies on the Moon, flying cars and friendly, subservient robots. Although these visions of ultra-modernity are sadly yet to be, we can always console ourselves with the fact that at least we'll all soon be using virtual reality, gaming's holy grail, which has been tantalisingly out of reach since its initial appearance in the early 90s. But this month even that small piece of future-certainty looked questionable with news that, in the US, sales of Oculus Rift (549), the Facebook-owned technology that re-sparked interest in VR, and HTC Vive (799), its technically superior rival, had both ground to a halt. PC gaming platform Steam showed a 0% growth for Vive and a 0.01% increase in Oculus Rift ownership last month, a possible indication that early adopters have got theirs, and everybody else is waiting for some decent games and a price reduction.

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