I've been trying to imagine what's possible there. Mapping the move buttons to thumb sticks is an easy one to predict. Better tracking comes free. But I'm not sure about resolution. I would think, like PS4->PS5 where there is dynamic resolution scaling you would see improvements, but I wonder if they can do any more without a patch from the game developers.

It might still not go mainstream, but that won't keep me from enjoying it...

I doubt VR will ever be mainstream to be honest. Does it have to in order to enjoy it?

That's what blows my mind. Gamers hoping for grandma and aunt Becky to accept VR like the days of Kinect and Wii. We seen what happened to those devices. They're dead. As gamers, we should just hope that other gamers accept VR as another option to play games. Because that's all it is while increasing the immersion factor 10 fold.

As we can clearly see, Sony's ready for business this time. Getting positive reviews all across the Internet from these previews.

I suspect same price as PS5 disc edition. Can't be more imo.

I heard $600 tbh but I'm good with £500 hoping for a £449 though.
If it is £500 or more I expect a simlar 20 game free collection like they did with the PS5 launch.

That's just $100 more than a Quest 2 and the same price as the 256GB version of the Quest 2.

They already said it when they first announced it🤷🏿

That's confusing. Your not into VR but it's a deal breaker with a wire?

Do you have a USB C cable? Could you lift it and tell me if it's heavy or bulky? Previews are saying the headset is super light too.

All those graphics, HDR, eye tracking, foveated rendering, high quality 3D sound like Returnal, headset haptics, no worries about battery life, have to come from somewhere for a reasonable price.

Just watch any YouTube video of someone playing wirelessly with Quest 2. Watch any of facebooks commercials. You'll notice they never leave one spot while playing. They'll turn. But they're not moving around a room. The wire is fine.

It's 1 wire this time and no extra box.

You know very well that it’s a single wire as you had raised the same “concern “ on every PSVR2 article you comment 🤷🏿
Anyways I got a good library of crystal games that’ll be playable on vr2 hopefully with the new controller as I know vr2 might no be compatible with the vr rifle 😩

The kinect was dead because it had no games. Compare the catalogue sizes for that and PSVR.

This is a fledgling market, it won't explode overnight, but that doesn't mean there's not money to be made and that you shouldn't drive the medium forward.

It's fine that it's a subsection of gamers. It can coexist with flat gaming. It's too expensive to expect everyone and their nan to buy one, but I expect PSVR2 to outsell it's predecessor based on the tech available now and how that translates to a far better, more immersive experience.

I didn't disagree but I know what you're saying. But PS VR 2 is not limited by it's past. PSVR lacked analog sticks. Many developers wouldn't port because it lacked standard controls found on other headsets. Or they came up with janky control schemes. You couldn't turn around in almost all of the games because it was front facing. It couldn't display the top games on PC because PSVR was tethered to the original PS4 which was 1.8 teraflops. Sony couldn't split the base between pro and base because that is not their nature. They couldn't make PS5 VR games with PSVR because that would leave base and pro out.

Recap. PS VR 2 will be able to play any games from PC. Ports will be much easier. It has features built in that PC and mobile VR don't have. Which is why some gamers beg for it to work on PC. It will have Tempest dedicated audio that others don't have.

But the one thing Sony has that Valve and Facebook don't have is that Sony has a ton of top tier 1st party developers. They are second to no one on those other VR platforms. Sony has 2nd and 3rd party support that goes back decades. With Capcom already there with RE8. Not only will PS VR 2 get more games then the first, they'll be at a higher quality. And Sony gets games like Wolverine and Spider-Man without even trying. Companies come to them like Disney did.

PSVR was an experiment. But Sony sold the headset at profit and profited off of the game sales. They didn't lose money. We don't expect all gamers to buy a particular game. We don't say, "why didn't Horizon or Spider-Man sell to every owner of PlayStation?" So, why would we expect a $500 peripheral at launch, that cost more than the console, to sell millions when $60 dollar games don't across the board? Comparing PSVR to the run away hit that was PS4 is an unfair comparison without context.

If anything, PS VR 2 will bring new life to VR. Developers will make more cross platform games for PC because both are comparable. Facebook might have took two steps forward with their stand alone tech. But took VR many steps back by killing Rift and games coming out that had to work on limited stand alone power. PS VR 2 won't be limited by that headset or Cambria. It's games will surpass those mobile chips. PC gamers will get high quality games and not Quest ports. And Quest owners who have PC will get to play better games because Sony will lift all the boats higher. None of the cheaply made indie games or early access games will be acceptable on Sony's system. We're about to get better games.

If the headset sells 20 million this time. That's growing the market. Market adoption doesn't happen overnight. It take time. Cars, cellphones, TVs, etc took time. VR will take time. Just as regular console gaming took decades to get where we are today.

"based on the sames numbers of original psvr units to ps4+ps5 sales"

People always get so hung up on the sales of the PS4 when talking about the sales of the PSVR1. I get that it is technically a peripheral, but it is also practically its own platform, a platform of a new medium of video games and gen 1 at that.

Look back at sales of Gen 1 consoles and compare them to Gen 8. The reason Sony is still doing it is because they're looking at the bigger picture for this medium and realise they 'may' be at the precipice of VR going mainstream, and they'll be there at the ground floor if it does. It's a risk of course, average Joe is not convinced, but the barriers to entry and friction are lowering as the years go on and innovation is often born from taking risks.

It turned out to just be a VR world:

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