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A fewer games volition connection escaped oregon inexpensive upgrades from erstwhile PSVR versions.

Kyle Orland - Jan 19, 2023 8:25 p.m. UTC

Enlarge / Horizon VR: Call of the Mountain is 1 of the fewer exclusive titles disposable for adjacent month's PSVR 2 launch.

Those who acquisition the PlayStation VR 2, disposable adjacent month, won't beryllium capable to play their existing PSVR room connected the caller headset. But they volition beryllium capable to acquisition much than 30 titles connected the headset's February 22 motorboat and a full of 37 wrong a period of that launch, Sony announced today.

The archetypal PSVR 2 lineup is overwhelmingly a benignant of "greatest hits" postulation of titles disposable connected existing VR platforms. Almost each of the headset's motorboat model titles are besides disposable connected SteamVR, the Oculus Quest platform, oregon the archetypal PSVR.

Of the fistful of PSVR 2 exclusives, the previously revealed Horizon VR: Call of the Mountain stands retired arsenic a first-person escapade successful the vein of Half-Life: Alyx. As acold arsenic third-party exclusives, Supermassive's The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR is an on-rails VR roller-coaster akin to the akin Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, portion Fantavision 202X is simply a afloat 3D instrumentality connected the infamous, fire-works-filled PS2 motorboat title (and volition besides enactment without a headset).

Of the remaining PSVR "exclusives" for the clip being, 2 instrumentality the signifier of escaped VR-compatible updates to existing flat-screen PS5 titles: Gran Turismo 7 and Resident Evil Village. Then there's the haunting communicative of Before Your Eyes, which launched connected Steam and mobile successful caller years but volition marque its VR debut connected the PSVR 2 adjacent month, utilizing the headset's eye-tracking cameras to show the player's time-controlling blinks.

Enlarge / Say truthful agelong to the archetypal PSVR's glowing bluish lights.

While existing PSVR games won't enactment by default connected PSVR 2, a fistful of developers are offering escaped upgrades for those who purchased games connected the older headset: NFL Pro Era, Pistol Whip, Puzzling Places, Song successful the Smoke: Rekindled, Synth Riders, and Zenith: The Last City. Those who ain Rez Infinite oregon Tetris Effect: Connected connected PSVR, meanwhile, volition beryllium capable to upgrade to a PSVR 2 mentation for conscionable $9.99 each.

In summation to eye-tracking and "passthrough" cameras, the $550 PSVR 2 sports a 2000×2400 per-eye resolution, 100-degree tract of view, enactment for HDR colors, and a acceptable of headset motors for tactile effects. The caller headset besides connects to the PS5 via a azygous cable, replacing the messiness of cables, junction boxes, and outer cameras needed for the archetypal PSVR connected the PS4.

Here's a afloat database of the PSVR 2 motorboat titles announced truthful far, including a notation for which different platforms person seen the aforesaid games.

PSVR 2 Title PSVR Quest PC VR Non-VR Notes

After the Fall	X	X	X
Altair Breaker		X	X
Before Your Eyes				X	"launch window"
Cities VR		X
Cosmonious High		X	X
Creed: Rise to Glory - Championship Edition	X	X	X		"launch window"
The Dark Pictures: Switchback					"launch window"
Demeo		X	X
Dyschronia: Chronos Alternate		X		X
Fantavision 202X
Gran Turismo 7				X	Free update for PS5 non-VR version
Horizon Call of the Mountain
Job Simulator	X	X	X
Jurassic World Aftermath		X		X
Kayak VR: Mirage			X
Kizuna AI - Touch the Beat!	X	X		X
The Last Clockwinder		X	X
The Light Brigade	X	X	X		Purchase includes PS4 and PS5 versions
Moss 1 & 2 Remaster	X	X	X
NFL Pro Era	X	X	X		Free upgrade for PS4 owners
No Man's Sky	X		X	X	"launch window"
Pavlov VR			X
Pistol Whip	X	X	X		free upgrade from PSVR
Puzzling Places	X	X			free upgrade from PSVR
Resident Evil Village				X	free DLC for PS5 game
Rez Infinite	X	X	X
Song successful the Smoke	X	X	X
STAR WARS: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge		X
Synth Riders	X	X	X		free upgrade from PSVR
The Tale of Onogoro	X	X	X
Tentacular		X	X
Tetris Effect: Connected	X	X	X	X
Thumper	X	X	X
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners: Ch. 2: Retribution	X	X	X		"launch window"
Vacation Simulator	X	X	X
What the Bat		X	X
Zenith: The Last City	X	X	X		free upgrade from PSVR