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Sony announced 11 much games for the caller PlayStation VR2 connected Wednesday, on with the unit’s motorboat day and (hefty) price. As the PlayStation VR2 will not beryllium compatible with games for the archetypal PlayStation VR, the newer system’s motorboat room is of peculiar value to imaginable buyers.

Of the 11 games announced Wednesday, immoderate person sanction recognition, possibly not to the grade of Horizon Call of the Mountain oregon Resident Evil Village. And if neither of those tin determination a PS VR2 disconnected shelves astatine $549.99, it’s a bully stake that The Dark Pictures: Switchback, the champion looking rubric among the new-for-PS VR2 games revealed Wednesday, won’t bash the instrumentality either.

The latest announcement did not notation the single-copy outgo of caller PS VR2 titles. The basal variation of a caller PlayStation 5 rubric can spell for $69.99. The lone PlayStation VR2 bundle that includes a crippled packs successful Horizon Call of the Mountain, for a full terms of $599.99 — which means we tin expect that crippled to spell for astatine slightest $50.

Here are the 5 motorboat titles for PlayStation VR2 that we knew astir earlier Wednesday, coming from a remark Sony Interactive Entertainment brag made successful May, erstwhile helium said PS VR2 would person 20 “major” games astatine launch.

Horizon Call of the Mountain — Obviously, SIE is looking astatine this adaptation of Guerrilla Games’ Horizon franchise to beryllium the table-setter for PlayStation VR2. Developers astatine a hands-on lawsuit successful September said the crippled volition supply an each caller communicative successful a six- oregon seven-hour experience. “Compared to the different games connected display, Call of the Mountain seemed similar the 1 astir custom-built for the caller headset,” we said astatine the time.
Resident Evil Village — Capcom announced at June’s State of Play event that the 2021 endurance fearfulness deed would get PlayStation VR2 enactment done the PlayStation 5 mentation of the game. A merchandise day for that enactment bundle was not specified, but the bully quality is fans who already person the crippled for PS5 fundamentally person a escaped crippled waiting if they spell the VR2 route.
No Man’s Sky — Also successful June, Hello Games announced that No Man’s Sky, the studio’s six-year-old live-service sci-fi adventure, was “in improvement for PlayStation VR2.” It sounds similar that volition beryllium a enactment update for the existing PlayStation 5 version, which launched successful November 2020. That’s however Hello rolled erstwhile it brought No Man’s Sky to the archetypal PSVR successful 2019.
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners — Chapter 2: Retribution: This is an wholly caller game, launching for Meta Quest connected Dec. 1. It’s the sequel to The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, which launched successful aboriginal 2020 for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Valve Index. A PS4/PSVR mentation volition besides motorboat with the PS VR2 version.
Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge — Enhanced Edition: The archetypal mentation of this VR-only escapade launched for Quest headsets astatine the extremity of 2020. A larboard is lone planned for PlayStation VR2.

Now, of 11 games announced connected Wednesday 3 are all-new:

The Dark Pictures: Switchback — From Supermassive Games, this is simply a spinoff of the archetypal play of The Dark Pictures Anthology, which premiered successful 2019 with Man of Medan and winds up connected Nov. 18 with The Devil successful Me. Although not an all-new IP, per se, this crippled is exclusive to PlayStation VR2. None of the preceding Dark Pictures games person been adapted to VR systems, though Supermassive antecedently delivered a rollercoaster-themed spinoff of different of its fearfulness games, Until Dawn, called Until Dawn: Rush of Blood.
Crossfire: Sierra Squad — Smilegate’s multiplayer shooter, precise fashionable successful Asia, came westbound to consoles with CrossfireX for Xbox One and Xbox Series X backmost successful February. “Play arsenic the person of an elite fireteam successful the mediate of a warfare implicit a top-secret biochemical limb that has precocious been discovered,” Smilegate says connected PlayStation Blog.
Hello Neighbor: Search and Rescue — Although critically panned, 2017’s Hello Neighbor from steadfast TinyBuild nevertheless spawned a robust franchise. A sequel is expected by the extremity of 2022, a prequel launched successful December 2018, and Search and Rescue is its archetypal VR adaptation. It volition besides motorboat for the archetypal PlayStation VR.