VR gaming’s spring hot streak is good news for the Steam Deck.

If you follow the news, you know that it hasn’t been a great year for VR gaming. That’s a bit of an understatement: it has been dire. Meta shut down four of its internal VR studios, including Twisted Pixel (Marvel’s Deadpool VR) and Sanzaru Games (Asgard’s Wrath 2). Ubisoft shut down game development at Red Storm Entertainment, the team behind Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR. Moss developer Polyarc laid off two-thirds of its staff. At a glance, all signs point to the impending death of VR as a gaming platform.