Sony ramping up 2 million PS VR 2s for launch!

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ps-vr2-mass-production-has-reportedly-started-with-2m-units-planned-for-launch/

By comparison, the original PlayStation VR, which was released in October 2016, took seven months to sell 1 million units.

Although VR2 has yet to receive an official release date, Sony has said it will launch in “early 2023”.

\According to Bloomberg’s source, mass production of PlayStation VR2 headsets started last month and has reportedly not yet been affected by supply chain constraints.

It’s reportedly planned that the ongoing shortage of PS5 consoles is expected to be somewhat improved by early 2023, with Sony hoping the PlayStation VR2 release will spur on sales of both the headset and the console.

Sony said earlier this year that it will have more than 20 games ready for the launch of PlayStation VR2.

“Right now, there is a considerable amount of money being spent on partnerships with independent and other third-party developers to secure a considerable pipeline of attractive VR content at the launch of PlayStation VR2,” SIE president Jim Ryan said in May.

“That energy, that effort and that money will continue to grow as the installed base of PlayStation VR 2 headsets grows also.”

PlayStation VR2 owners will not, however, be able to play existing PlayStation VR games, after Sony revealed last month that the new headset will not be backwards compatible.

Sony says it's because PSVR 2 is "designed to deliver a truly next-generation VR experience"

Speaking on the PlayStation Blog podcast, SVP of platform experience Hideaki Nishino said that “PSVR games are not compatible with PSVR 2 because PSVR 2 is designed to deliver a truly next-generation VR experience”.

He added: “PSVR 2 has much more advanced features like all new controllers with haptic feedback and adaptive triggers and inside-out tracking, eye tracking in the headset, 3D audio all coming together of course.

“So this means developing PSVR 2 requires a whole different approach from the original PSVR.”

Wowza, over 20 games ready for launch plus 2 million consoles ready for purchase? Sony is ALL in on VR!! 🤩

:P

PSVR 2 is not a console and it should launching with full BC and not just 20 games that are going to be artificially locked to just the PSVR 2.

Beyond that, I am more interested in the pricetag.😎

@SecretPolice said:

:P

Don’t worry, you can still play the same ol‘ Halo Infinite 😉

Sony is all about gimmicks for cows to waste money on.

Oh yea? Like Nintendo and their Amiibos and Labos?

Good, I had planned on buying at least 3 of them at launch.

That's a whole bunch of walled gardens.

@SolidGame_basic: Way worst. Sony is king of gimmicks.

🥱 try making sense sometime 😉

My biggest problem with Sony and Facebook.

VR has a very limited quality software library. A lot of the great stuff i'm actually playing weren't designed with VR to begin with and are old games.

That's not to shit on them, once play something like Halflife 2 in VR, doubt most people want to play the flatscreen version again.

When Valve released Alyx (Valve have their own headset to promote) they made a conscientious effort to ensure it would work on every viable platform.

Fact literally contacted Facebook directly to try to get better integration for their own hardware, and were just ignored.

Going forward if get a headset (currently not required) it will be from Valve.

@SolidGame_basic said:

@SecretPolice said:

:P

Don’t worry, you can still play the same ol‘ Halo Infinite 😉

"insert it's good to be the king gif here" lol :P

Why can't they patch the gimmicks into the old games, to play on the new headset? Or at least have them on there without the new features? Are they saying the new headset just can't handle the raw awesomeness of psvr1? Sounds like a load of Ryan.

@dimebag667: "Are they saying the new headset just can't handle the raw awesomeness of psvr1? "

lol

Still have zero interest in VR. Pass.

Can you believe it, 2 million pieces of plastic junk about to flood our oceans.

The worst part is, it's wired and isn't even backwards compatible.