PSVR’s Top Downloads in 2022 Betray Stagnation, PSVR 2 Looks to Change That - Road to VR

It’s much than a spot disheartening to spot fundamentally the aforesaid apical PSVR crippled downloads repeated passim the years, though here’s to hoping this whitethorn beryllium the past clip we utter the names Beat Saber, Job Simulator, and SUPERHOT VR successful sequential bid arsenic the upcoming platform’s best-performing titles.

The archetypal PSVR has earned a well-deserved remainder aft much than six years of faithful service, nary doubt. But connected February 22nd, the company’s next-gen headset PSVR 2 is coming to town, which has the imaginable to shingle things up a just spot arsenic the PlayStation begins charting titles created for its latest and top VR headset.

I’m hoping to see this a bid farewell to the aforesaid ol’ apical download chart, which seems to person stayed reasonably stagnant for the past mates of years. Before we spell further though, here’s the apical PSVR downloads successful 2022:

PSVR Top Downloads – 2022

Notice thing familiar? With the objection of Sniper Elite VR, which really released successful 2021 (but critically didn’t fertile among the apical downloads that year), it’s nearly identical to the illustration from 2021. Pretty overmuch par for the people for the platform’s aging crippled library, it seems.

PSVR 2: Shifting to a More Experienced VR Gamer?

Notably, PSVR 2 doesn’t diagnostic backwards compatibility, though galore games connected the illustration supra are either re-releasing connected PSVR 2 or getting a escaped upgrade, truthful we’ll precise apt spot galore of these titles persist successful the charts for months to come.

Sony has besides publically announced a fistful of PSVR 2 titles which whitethorn beryllium beardown contenders for the apical spots successful the coming months and years. Popular games and franchises include Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil Village, Horizon Call of the Mountain, Demeo, Crossfire: Sierra Squad, Firewall Ultra, Among Us VR, 2MD: VR Football Unleashed All-Star, and Hello Neighbor: Search and Rescue just to sanction a few. We’re inactive waiting connected an authoritative database of motorboat time titles and a much concise knowing of what’s getting an upgrade, and what isn’t.

Granted, I said I’m hoping to see this a bid farewell to the seemingly robust clad illustration rankings, though there’s a bully crushed those apical games performed truthful good connected PSVR. The apical three—Beat Saber, Job Simulator, and SUPERHOT VR—undoubtedly marque for fantabulous first-time VR experiences for fundamentally anyone. After all, PSVR was apt the archetypal VR headset for galore who already ain a PS4, truthful a continued absorption connected casual VR contented makes sense.

Note: Beat Saber has been confirmed for a PSVR 2 rerelease (possibly escaped upgrade, but Meta hasn’t said yet), portion Job Simulator and SUPERHOT VR are inactive unconfirmed for PSVR 2.

It remains to beryllium seen whether the ‘newcomers astatine the top’ paradigm plays retired the aforesaid mode with PSVR 2 though successful the months and years to come. Many of the apical games connected PS5 entreaty to a much mature gaming assemblage (in gaming ability, not age), which is reflected successful the apical 2022 downloads there: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, God of War Ragnarök, and ELDEN RING. 

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A amended analogue though for PSVR 2 whitethorn beryllium Quest 2’s show implicit the years, owing to its spot arsenic fundamentally the largest VR level for consumers. Many of the apical titles connected the monthly Quest charts present a amended premix of casual drop-in titles and much lengthy adventures specified arsenic BONELAB, Moss: Book II, and The Room VR: A Dark Matter, which whitethorn mean the PSVR 2 illustration whitethorn look precise antithetic indeed.

Still, for PSVR 2 to travel the aforesaid path, determination needs to beryllium an extended premix of premium prime contented for newcomers successful summation to the apical games repeated from the days of yore. Players volition beryllium looking for caller casual contented like Astro Bot Rescue Mission, PlayStation VR Worlds, and Creed: Rise to Glory—the benignant of games you tin plop household and friends into that they instantly recognize and tin play—in summation to needing a dependable watercourse of ‘AAA’ level titles like Resident Evil Village and Horizon Call of the Mountain, two of the largest standouts PSVR 2 users volition astir apt look to for the benignant of graphical prime they’re utilized to connected flatscreen.

In the end, it’s hard to accidental however things volition shingle out. Sony appears to beryllium playing its PSVR 2 hype strategy much oregon little successful the aforesaid mode it did with PS5, i.e. not galore exclusives and a softer motorboat than expected. That could person to bash with the information that the all-in terms for a PS5 and PSVR 2 headset is astir $1,100, which not lone limits the fig of prospective crippled income by a just bit, but could mean little first-party concern wide if the instal basal isn’t ample enough. Whatever the case, we’re hoping to perceive much astir games and get a amended knowing of motorboat time titles implicit the coming period starring up to its February 22nd launch.

What’s your opinion? Will aboriginal PSVR 2 charts look the same, beryllium dominated by caller casual content, oregon volition we spot much mature titles interruption in? Let america cognize successful the comments below!