Psvr 2 needs a lot of quality games and it would be even better if it receives a lot of hybrid games like gt7 and resident evil 8. All the hydrid games I've played so far are all better in vr

Yes. A $100 price drop would certainly get me to purchase one. I understand that Sony has a business to run so I guess I'll have to hold out to see if there will be a holiday bundle of some sort.

Until they either have their own storefront to sell to on PC (a thing that, even as a PC guy myself, know most of our ilk would moan endlessly about), or have a massive stable of 1st Party VR games that they could get additional revenue from...simply not going to happen. They have no incentive to do so, and ensuring a good experience on PC would also further cost them extra development time & resources for practically no monetary gain.

It'd be a neat value-add for people who own a PC & PS5 - it would help me to justify adding another HMD alongside the others I already have - but it would ultimately just be selling subsidized hardware to a large percentage of folks they wouldn't get extra money from, and taking away stock from those they could.

Eventually, it won't be PC... It'll be just like MS Stream Options... Until the day the need to, They will stick with the PS Console ideal, because its actually working, And ill guarantee they'll keep what will one day be called "RETRO AAA GAMES MACHINE" , until the ever incoming, "You wont own it, but be happy."
Personally, I believe Sony and Nintendo are keeping us from precipice....The longer they do, the better.. and you'll still get what you want...

“Right now there isn't much and there's nothing you can't find better on cheaper headsets.“

There’s Resident Evil 8. GT7, Call of the Mountain and many great ports from earlier hardware that many have yet to try available from day one.

To the second part, there is no cheaper and better solution than the PlayStation one. And it’s not close.

"there's nothing you can't find better on cheaper headsets."

Yeah, agreeing with Babdook here - that's just not correct. This is one of the best value headsets out there, when you take into account its quality. If you mean game-wise, then that's true - there's few games PSVR2 only that you can't play elsewhere. But if you go cheaper, you are certainly paying less while getting a lesser experience.

As a pretty big supporter of VR - own a Quest 2, Rift, and PSVR - who happens to also own a PS5 and not PSVR 2, I understand what you mean and where you're coming from. I still disagree with the "nothing you can't find better on cheaper headsets" comment, as I discussed. However, the rest isn't as cut and dry.

If you want an all-in-one, Quest is the only game in town right now. Oculus is trying to get everyone and their mother to buy a Quest, even if they aren't normally gamers. That'd be great for any company, but that's not what Sony is really going for, so they aren't really competing with Oculus (really in their own market, but closer to competing with "high end" VR than anything else). Oculus can play an entirely different playbook given their insane warchest & desire to eat losses endlessly in the vain hope they end up owning what they believe to be the next computing platform. Oculus has also stopped investing in good software, from a gaming standpoint, and is focusing on lighting money on fire with the Metaverse. It's pretty much all on indies to provide content now. Definitely not a focus problem for Sony, as they are using their resources and money for games.

The VR market is in a weird spot, where you no longer even have a Rift S as a value PC option. Sure, you could buy a Quest to set up on PC, but that's no longer really the "Quest" crowd. It requires a PC more expensive than a PS5, and more know how than just plugging in a USB-C cable to get working well. And worse than that, Oculus has all but abandoned PC development. The Rift software never gets updated, it has a store that has sections that don't even lead anywhere anymore (the sales section has been broken for years at this point)...it's feeling more an afterthought every day as they chase the standalone casual crowd. Quest on PC's future is static/stale at best, and uncertain at worst.

PSVR2 is a focus for Sony, will improve, will get updates, and is a product designed for being plugged into a larger processing box, as opposed to Quest. I don't follow Index as closely, but I don't feel as if Valve has been putting much into VR either in recent years. But that's probably Sony's closest competition, so to speak, and PSVR2 is better in almost every way (lighthouse tracking notwithstanding). Not to mention you could buy a PS5 and PSVR2 for the cost of the Index alone.

The Quest and PCVR have a deep library of older games that, unfortunately, Sony can't compete with; doubly so, after what they lost in PSVR2's move to a totally new tracking system. I do think that Sony - in the early goings - are suffering the same as almost every new platform ever; content. They have a good start, for how new the device is, and getting games like REVIII, REIV, GT7, etc as full VR experiences is a strong opening salvo, and hopefully sets a precedent for content going forward. I agree they have a content problem, for now, but I do NOT think they have a quality or pricing problem. So long as the content continues, the sales for the headset will certainly sort themselves out, especially if they can find ways to cut costs in a year or so.

I'm honestly not sure what the magic bullet is regarding VR content. On average, it seems people don't love spending the same kind of time in HMDs playing a long-form game as they do on TVs. That in mind, I think the single best approach is putting VR into 2D games. It let's people inhabit that world, but also swap back and forth between VR and couch when the mood strikes. Allows these games to reduce risk of selling poorly, while still getting a full production budget.

Look at games like Asgard's Wrath or Stormland for Oculus Rift. Rift buyers were the hardcore of hardcore, generally buying in when the HMD+Touch was very expensive, and the PC to power it even moreso. Asgard has 3,000 reviews and Stormland 1,900 - these were games build for VR, as more core experiences. Well reviewed by critics and players alike. Beat Saber on Rift has 15,000 and Beat Saber on Quest has almost 50,000 reviews.

I think they would have to change the pricing model to make those VR conversions wortwhile to spend manpower on - maybe charge a $10-15 add-on for VR? I'd pretty easily pay $10 on top of a game purchase if the conversion was well done, knowing that VR development isn't free. And to know you're getting a solid, full game, rather than the short, low-budget games they tend to be? This kind of feels like how it may need to go, at least for a while.