The Marvel’s Iron Man VR game had already been delayed into 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic is further adding a cascade of logistics issues. Sony also said that The Last folks Part II was delayed. Also, Sony announced during a tweet, “Logistically, the worldwide crisis is preventing us from providing the launch experience our players deserve.”
As you’ll see from the tweet above, SIE has delayed both Marvel’s Iron Man VR and Naughty Dog’s The Last folks Part II citing the coronavirus (COVID-19). What’s especially startling is that the incontrovertible fact that its ‘until further notice’ so it might be months before either video game sees the sunshine of day. That’s an enormous blow to PSVR owners who were looking forward to Iron Man VR’s release. Sony and Microsoft are ramping up with the decision to release their next-generation consoles later this year. While neither company has made reveals around VR hardware for its next-generation console, the PS5 is predicted to be backward compatible with original PSVR games. Overall, this suggests that Marvell’s Iron Man VR was expected to be one of the last major VR releases for the PS4.
Marvel’s Iron Man VR has seen delay after it had been first revealed during SIE’s State of Play broadcast early last year, with a launch originally planned for the top of 2019. Then in October pre-orders went live and therefore the title was pushed back until February 2020. With a replacement release date in limbo, SIE has yet to verify whether pre-orders will continue or be canceled. While it’s understandable that the physical retail copies are delayed owing to manufacturing, apart from a joint release there’s little reason to delay the digital release. In any case, most are still getting to need to wait. This also begs the question of whether the launch of PlayStation 5 is going to be affected.