PS VR2 Isn't Even Out Yet And It's Already Selling Poorly - Kotaku

Sony’s PlayStation VR2 headsets don’t merchandise for respective much weeks, but the console shaper is already reportedly cutting inventory by fractional aft receiving less preorders than expected. Some analysts are inactive skeptical the instrumentality volition ever beryllium much than an “expensive accessory for the PS5.”

Bloomberg reported past autumn that Sony planned to marque 2 cardinal PS VR2 headsets for launch. It present reports Sony has chopped that fig to 1 million, with plans to lone vessel 1.5 cardinal units betwixt this coming April and March 2024. Sony’s erstwhile PSVR headset, meanwhile, sold roughly 2 cardinal units successful its archetypal year.

No uncertainty the terms quality has a batch to bash with that imaginable difference. The archetypal PSVR headset was $400 astatine launch. The upcoming PS VR2 1 is $550, which is adjacent much than the PS5 console required to usage it. If you privation to play Horizon Call of the Mountain, the Horizon Zero Dawn VR spin-off, you’ll request to wage different $50 connected apical of that.

While the PS VR2 tech has decidedly seemed awesome truthful far, and overmuch much streamlined than its predecessor, that terms constituent doesn’t look aimed astatine expanding involvement beyond existing VR diehards. It doesn’t assistance that PS VR2 won’t beryllium backwards compatible with the aged headset’s room of games either. Early adopters volition efficaciously beryllium buying into an wholly caller ecosystem astatine the aforesaid clip that companies similar Meta are pulling backmost somewhat from investing successful it.

The introduction level Meta Quest headset sold implicit 8 cardinal units successful 2021, but past twelvemonth the institution hiked the terms from $300 to $400. Now it’s pushing a $1,500 Meta Quest Pro headset with the committedness of amended productivity astatine enactment and nicer Zoom calls. Three years aft Valve proved you could marque a blockbuster VR exclusive with Half-Life: Alyx, it inactive feels similar companies aren’t acceptable to afloat perpetrate to the technology. Maybe Horizon telephone of the Mountain volition beryllium everyone wrong.