{"id":89164,"date":"2019-03-18T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/338902"},"modified":"2019-03-18T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:43:00","slug":"oculus-grabs-beat-saber-as-an-oculus-quest-launch-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/18\/oculus-grabs-beat-saber-as-an-oculus-quest-launch-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Oculus grabs Beat Saber as an Oculus Quest launch title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oculus has announced that the VR rhythm game <em>Beat Saber<\/em> will be hitting its upcoming standalone VR headset on day one.<\/p>\n<p>The company shared the announcement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oculus.com\/blog\/freestyle-beat-saber-joins-the-oculus-quest-launch-lineup\/\">alongside a brief Q&amp;A with the dev team<\/a> today, an announcement that falls just shortly after developer Beat Games\u2019 own news that <em>Beat Saber<\/em> has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/338786\/Beat_Saber_has_crossed_1_million_sales_in_under_a_year.php\">surpassed 1 million sales<\/a> across all platforms in less than a&nbsp;year.<\/p>\n<p>The Oculus Quest itself is still due out for a vague sometime-in-2019&nbsp;release, but nabbing <em>Beat Saber<\/em> as one of the self-contained VR headset\u2019s launch titles is a significant push to bolster the platform\u2019s offerings ahead of that eventual launch.<\/p>\n<p>Oculus has already said that it\u2019s aiming for a \u2018quality-first\u2019 approach for games that show up on the Quest\u2019s game store, and the <em>Beat Saber<\/em> announcement certainly falls in line with that.&nbsp;It&#8217;s a push detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oculus.com\/blog\/freestyle-beat-saber-joins-the-oculus-quest-launch-lineup\/\">recent blog post<\/a> on the company\u2019s site, and one that ultimately aims to focus on apps that take advantage of some of the Quest\u2019s flagship features like its inside-out 6DOF tracking, and one that&#8217;s led to a stricter application process for devs looking to land a game on the platform.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oculus has announced that the VR rhythm game Beat Saber will be hitting its upcoming standalone VR headset on day one. The company shared the announcement alongside a brief Q&amp;A with the dev team today, an announcement that falls just shortly after developer Beat Games\u2019 own news that Beat Saber has&nbsp;surpassed 1 million sales across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}