{"id":73452,"date":"2019-11-29T03:08:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T10:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/even-half-life-alyx-wasnt-enough-to-convince-xbox-boss-of-console-vr\/"},"modified":"2019-11-29T03:08:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T10:08:32","slug":"even-half-life-alyx-wasnt-enough-to-convince-xbox-boss-of-console-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/even-half-life-alyx-wasnt-enough-to-convince-xbox-boss-of-console-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Half-Life: Alyx wasn\u2019t enough to convince Xbox boss of console VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Microsoft Holds Its Xbox Event At E3 Show In Los Angeles\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1154858325.jpg.0.jpg?w=900&#038;ssl=1\"><small>Photo by Christian Petersen\/Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s it going to take to convince Xbox boss Phil Spencer to make a VR-compatible Xbox? Earlier this week, Spencer said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/stevivor.com\/features\/interviews\/vr-not-a-focus-of-project-scarlett-says-phil-spencer\/\">interview with <em>Stevivor<\/em><\/a> that \u201cnobody\u2019s asking for VR\u201d on Microsoft\u2019s consoles, and has followed that up <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XboxP3\/status\/1199717232852393985\">on Twitter<\/a> by saying that even after playing the highly-anticipated-yet-unreleased VR title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/11\/21\/20975423\/half-life-alyx-vr-price-release-date-screenshots-trailer-valve-steam\"><em>Half-Life: Alyx<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>he\u2019s still not convinced. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just not our focus with Scarlett,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XboxP3\/status\/1199717232852393985\">tweeted<\/a> Spencer, referring to the Project Scarlett codename for the company\u2019s 2020 console. However, he admitted that Valve\u2019s upcoming game was \u201camazing\u201d when he got to play it.<\/p>\n<p>In the original interview with <em>Stevivor, <\/em>Spencer raised \u201cissues\u201d with the current state of VR. \u201cIt\u2019s isolating,\u201d he said, adding that his priority with Xbox was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/11\/28\/20987089\/xbox-phil-spencer-microsoft-vr-project-scarlet-half-life-alyx\">Continue reading\u2026<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Christian Petersen\/Getty Images What\u2019s it going to take to convince Xbox boss Phil Spencer to make a VR-compatible Xbox? Earlier this week, Spencer said in an interview with Stevivor that \u201cnobody\u2019s asking for VR\u201d on Microsoft\u2019s consoles, and has followed that up on Twitter by saying that even after playing the highly-anticipated-yet-unreleased VR&#8230;<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/even-half-life-alyx-wasnt-enough-to-convince-xbox-boss-of-console-vr\/\"> Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":73453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Photo by Christian Petersen\/Getty Images What\u2019s it going to take to convince Xbox boss Phil Spencer to make a VR-compatible Xbox? 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