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Exclusive: Sony's PSVR2 is not doing well. IDC's @fjeronimo expects sales of just 270,000 units by the end of March. "I suspect a price cut on the PSVR2 will be needed to avoid a complete disaster," he says.https://t.co/pzmNKsnTjI

— Takashi Mochizuki (@6d6f636869) March 30, 2023

Sony Group Corp. is projected to sell fewer than 300,000 PlayStation VR2 headsets in its first weeks on the market, a slow start for company efforts to take a leading role in development of the metaverse. The Tokyo-based console maker is likely to sell about 270,000 units of the PSVR2 between its Feb. 22 release and the end of March, according to estimates from the research firm IDC. Sony had a lofty goal of making about 2 million units for the PSVR2's launch window, Bloomberg News reported last year.

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what's the original price again? yeah

It was weird that they dumped all that money into PSVR2 after PSVR1's reception was lukewarm and expecting a different result

Bad timing with the economy and what the competition is up to...Sony is wasting probably billions in R&D money when Microsoft is out here dropping billions to acquire Bethesda and ABK

BX told me everything Sony touches is gold

It's a dope headset. f*ghting those machines in horizon in VR is an experience

I really really want one for Resident Evil, Gran Turismo, etc. but for the price they want for it?

No way.

$549.00 is stupid as fu*k for a fancy console accessory

The vr tech is amazing. The price point isn't. Facebook had a great idea with the quest 2 but the sh*t looked like ps2 games with a Facebook corporation smell.

You gotta have a wireless small almost sunglasses type headset with near current gen graphics for under $400. And that's not possible yet.

No way the accessory should cost as much and more than the damn system.

PSVR2 is high but isn't considering that they are the best VR headsets on the market
Valve Index cost $1495
HTC Vive Pro 2 cost $1299

No backward compatibility, meaning there's a prescient example of your money not being respected or supported in the long term.

Big price point, which for a relatively niche medium in the gaming space is always tricky. The Quest 2 gives portability, a few AAA games with decent graphics (and the ability to connect to a PC) and a much cheaper price which means your market for PSVR is almost exclusively current PS5 owners.

And the only exclusive you can't play elsewhere that has been talked about a lot is GT7.

I'm genuinely surprised it's doing that well honestly. How many PS5s have been sold? Isn't 300K~ about 10% of users? That seems significant.

Even though I'm not interested in it, I've said from day one that the cost is too high for a niche product especially in the console market.

Faythung said No backward compatibility, meaning there's a prescient example of your money not being respected or supported in the long term. Big price point, which for a relatively niche medium in the gaming space is always tricky. The Quest 2 gives portability, a few AAA games with decent graphics (and the ability to connect to a PC) and a much cheaper price which means your market for PSVR is almost exclusively current PS5 owners. And the only exclusive you can't play elsewhere that has been talked about a lot is GT7. I'm genuinely surprised it's doing that well honestly. How many PS5s have been sold? Isn't 300K~ about 10% of users? That seems significant.

google says 32 million ps5's sold so %10 of that would be 3.2million. there no were close to selling PSVR2 to %10 of the user base thats actually less than %1 of the ps5 user base.

HiRolliN said google says 32 million ps5's sold so %10 of that would be 3.2million. there no were close to selling PSVR2 to %10 of the user base thats actually less than %1 of the ps5 user base.

My math was way off, don't do math first thing after waking up kids.

You're right and I take it back, it's significance is how trash 1% is.

Faythung said My math was way off, don't do math first thing after waking up kids. You're right and I take it back, it's significance is how trash 1% is.

and its not even 1% they would of had to sold 320k to get to 1% they sold 270k which is like .75%

HiRolliN said and its not even 1% they would of had to sold 320k to get to 1% they sold 270k which is like .75%

Yeah that's a pretty terrible uptake.

I gave them too much credit.

Cost too much. Ain't nobody paying that much. 300 and people might buy it.

Same cost as a PS5 and you need a ps5 too

Hopefully Sony allows PC use for this. It would sell damn well. What hurt this was not making it backwards compatible and forcing owners to rebuy games they already own.

Naga Sadow said Hopefully Sony allows PC use for this. It would sell damn well. What hurt this was not making it backwards compatible and forcing owners to rebuy games they already own.

would of been the fu*king logical thing to do on sony part to maximize sales since theyve been not to long ago started porting over there own first party games to the pc

badboy600 said It's a dope headset. f*ghting those machines in horizon in VR is an experience

I got one and Pavlov is dope as fu*k .. resident evil is crazy in iit as well

Who didn’t see this coming?

Peter Starks™ said Who didn’t see this coming?

Thank you. There are no games to warrant that price tag. I gave my nephew and niece my quest and it just collect dust. It was trend during pandemic when everyone was stuck at home. Besides beat saber there really was not a go to app that sells the platform. The creed boxing was cool and Half life Alyx was the gold standard but I have not seen a good game in a while. For now it is a trend until they can find a way to make it more comfortable for the average consumer. The sh*t gave me headaches and headset is too heavy. I can only play for 2 hours max.

I suspect most of the gaming public (myself included) don't really care about VR.

Like, think about this..... You already paid $500 for the PS5, this accessory (which costs $549) would require already owning the PS5. Why does the accessory cost more than the damn system. What the fu*k were they thinking??????

This is just plain ol arrogance on the part of Sony.

300K sold already for such a niche product at that price is great. I was not expecting even 100K