F1 2017 launched yesterday (and we will be publishing our review in the next few days), but it’s available on the usual suspects of PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. There’s no VR-support despite DiRT Rally previously getting it.

The F1 game’s creative director, Lee Mather explained the situation to GamesIndustry: „Virtual reality is a little trickier for us because we’re pushing the boundaries when it comes to our physics. We have a lot of elements on screen with the OSD, so that’s a lot of information the player would have to process in VR. The changes to move the game onto VR would be fairly significant, and we wouldn’t want to do it if it meant compromising any area of the game.

It probably wouldn’t be suitable to have the same game we have running on Xbox One and PS4, but there’s certainly the possibility we’ll look at doing something on Switch. We’ll see what happens in future. It’s certainly getting the market share to make it a valid place to be.”

So both VR and Switch are under consideration, which means if there’s money on the market, Codemasters will jump on the train to port them to these platforms.