If Optimizing games for the Meta Quest 3 can increase the size of games, the same goes for the Meta Quest 2 games, without them benefiting from any improvement. How to explain it?
The answer is simple: there is only one distribution channel for applications available on the blind. Understand that on theBONE of Googleif you can spin Genshin Impact on a Samsung Galaxy A5 or one Samsung S21, you will not benefit from the same rendering from one device to another, and yet the size of the game on both media will remain the same. Well, on Meta Quest 2 and 3 is the same thing.
Owners of the 64 GB version of Meta Quest 2 might not view this favorably. The more games optimized for Meta Quest 3, the less space there will be on the systems Meta Quest precedents, we might think. Well not necessarily! Many studios have chosen to reduce the weight of their titles so that theupgrade is not necessarily synonymous with an increase in the size of the games (we noticed this when updating our database).
Only two games go (almost) from singles to doubles: Red Matter 2 (5.6 GB to 9.1 GB) and Hope 2 (7 to 12 GB):
THE CEO from the studio Myron Games (to whom we owe Deisim) nevertheless asserts thatit is possible to offer APK (application-specific file extension Android) separatednotably adding a difference in the game manifest. The only downside is that the method is tedious and requires a lot of rigor, if only to prevent the wrong version from landing on the wrong headset.
That said, in the event that Meta would multiply the distribution channels, it is not said that the studios have the time, the resources or the desire to deliver several versions of the same title, they who are already exhausted (and this is understandable) at the simple idea of making as many versions as there are systems or headsets different.
In absolute terms, if developers manage to reduce the weight of their games while succeeding in optimizing their titles on Meta Quest 3 (and they should be the majority in this case), the Meta Quest 2 64 GB (as announced Mark Zuckerberg) still has many good years ahead of him.
The latest mixed reality headset is available on the website Meta and on Amazon. The model with 128 GB of storage costs 549.99 euros while the one with 512 GBit is sold at 699.99 euros.