Alongside today’s GDC 2016 announcement of the $399 USD price and October 2016 release window for PlayStation VR—Sony’s upcoming virtual reality device—Atlus has been announced as one of the 34 confirmed Japanese companies working on content for PlayStation VR.
The Sony provided list indicates that ATLUS is one of the third party Japanese developers/publishers working on content for PlayStation VR, as of March 16, 2016.
Atlus previously expressed interest in developing virtual reality games last year, when one of the questions and answers in their 2015 consumer survey were the following:
Q25: Among the following game concepts, which interest you the most?
- Games with immersive worlds, virtual reality games
The full list of third party Japanese developers and publishers working on content for PlayStation VR right now:
- ACQUIRE Corp.
- Active Gaming Media Inc.
- ARC SYSTEM WORKS CO.,LTD.
- ATLUS
- BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.
- BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.
- Bimboosoft
- CAPCOM CO., LTD.
- COLOPL, Inc.
- Cygames, Inc.
- D3 PUBLISHER Inc.
- DIGITAL WORKS Entertainment Inc.
- FromSoftware, Inc.
- Gemdrops, Inc.
- GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE INC.
- GREE, Inc.
- GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.
- IDEA FACTORY Co., Ltd.
- KADOKAWA CORPORATION
- Kadokawa Games, Ltd.
- KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
- Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
- LEVEL-5 Inc.
- MAGES.Inc
- Marvelous Inc.
- monobit Inc.
- POLYGON MAGIC, INC.
- SEGA Games Co., Ltd.
- Solid Sphere, Inc.
- Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
- SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
- SUNCORPORATION,Inc.
- wise Inc.
- XING INC.
— Sony