Nope, market is DOA.

Nope. Sony will more on to their next gimmick before that happens. They are clearly over VR.

The struggle of the PSVR2 is all on Sony's mishandling and not reflective of the wider industry, the potential here with VR on PlayStation or the potential of VR as a whole. Sony need to do some introspection on how they're handling devices like this and readjust, not blame everyone else and give up.

The BoM on this thing is ~$270, additional costs and R&D recoup over the course of a fair sell through bring that in to the mid-300s at worst. Instead the money men panicked and wanted rapid cost recoups, so marked it all the way up to $529 for filthy levels of quick profit.

If you're introducing a sub platform like this you need to do what you can to expand it. They could've done a much better job of that at $399 while still making a tidy little profit per unit, in turn having a wider base buying more VR titles. Then further down the line (~3yrs) they could introduce a heavily-cost reduced unit for $299 in tandem with an EDGE/Pro premium SKU at $399 incorporating wireless, pancake lenses and a lower persistence OLED.

Sony/PS are high on their MTX revenue from a fickle audience, they're completely mishandling everything else.

This device's development would no doubt have been started in a culture of platform building and considering long term brand health. Now all Sony is left with is pure shareholder-pleasers who don't balance long term brand health against short term gains; that old guard is largely gone. Now every component of the business will have metrics collected and if it doesn't meet on basic criteria: "does it make us money, quick..?" it gets thrown aside. What they don't consider is maintaining a cohesive, strong brand requires certain elements that don't always result in upfront profits, they're value-adds that put the brand in good standing with the customer and even the internal culture. There are areas where you take a hit or at least land neutral to strengthen the ship for the longer journey. But that's where we are now, it's all about money extraction and with that the enshittification has begun, eventually the gutting will happen when they need to squeeze more dollars out and then the fall from up high will begin as they simply don't possess the means to provide the quality expected of them.

Or, they can course correct, they did it midway through PS3 and into PS4, showing a masterclass in realising where their bread is buttered and shutting down an entire industry of naysayers by playing to their strengths. The problem this time is they're not feeling anything on the purse strings. They're raking in 55% of their revenue from services and neglecting their core, they're high on the mtx supply and can't see through the dollar signs for what a precarious position they may be in longer term. They had to fight for their survival back then, now they can just coast and keep extracting cash until the tide shifts and the wheels suddenly fall off.

Don't release new hardware, just keep going with PSVR 2, with how they supported PSVR 2, I would get the next one. They supported PSVR1 way more than PSVR2

Lol doubtful.

Who knows. But the lack of first party support meant that the current one was a no buy for me. If you don't support your own product, don't expect huge sales. I didn't buy it. Not even a Spider-Man game that would have helped sales. That's a huge IP. And gamers reacted positively from the second, free Spider-Man experience on PSVR that wasn't even made in-house from any Sony PlayStation developers. Nope. Nothing. Sony made billions this generation. Nope. No support for VR in a meaningful way.

Also, Games on PSVR aren't even upgraded to work on the new device. Can't play Astrobot or Blood and Truth on the PS VR 2. Sony closing London Studios was a stupid idea. Dumbest decision ever. Insomniac has VR game making experience. And not one game from them. Travesty it is.

As for the article, Sony doesn't really need to build a PS VR 3. As the current headset would leverage the power of PS 6. Eye tracking and haptics are already there. 120 refresh rate is already there. The only thing Sony really needs to do is to drop the price of the current model so that buying it and a PS 6 won't be that expensive. The current headset should be no more than $250 when the next console comes out. Secondly, all they need to do besides that is to refresh the current model to make it smaller and wireless. If you can do wireless with a PC and a Quest, wireless refresh for PS VR 2 is a no brainer. Just make the wireless model the premium version.

Sony F Ed up this generation for VR. But at least the headset is still usable for next Gen. No PS VR 3 is needed. Maybe I'll buy it then if they support it.

After PSVR1 and VR2, a PS6 wouldn't feel like a total package to me without VR. I easily wouldn't buy a PS6 without one...

I still love my PSVR2. PC support was a big win as well. On sale, it’s an unbeatable value and it’s got plenty of great content at this point.

I love my psvr and was going to by the second, but finding out I couldn't play my psvr games on psvr2 was a dealbreaker for me. I'd need to keep both and alternate, which is too much effort and space.

PSVR2 was doomed before arriving because it needs wires. Sony only needs a good wireless system for PlayStation 5/6 and it will get more attention. Playing PC VR games with Meta Quest with Meta Link works flawlessly. It is incredible how Sony did not see what others were doing with cheaper and more capable systems before going with PSVR2 as it is.

Sony should commit to sticking with PSVR2 on the PS6. Its great tech. Build up its library & bring down the price over time. This will gather more consumer support. As for PSVR3? That's jumping the gun if PSVR2 doesn't establish a greater market draw.