Rumor: PSVR 2 to Enter Production Soon - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 January 2022 / 1,465 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment in February 2021 announced it will release a next-generation virtual reality headset for the PlayStation 5 in 2022 or later. Other than the controllers, Sony has not shared much about the PlayStation VR 2.
A new report by Xueqiu and translated by Push Square claims component supplier Goertek has signed a contract with Sony for the supply of components for the PSVR 2 headset. The report says it will enter production soon as manufacturing is nearly ready to start.
Goertek has already worked with Sony on the original PlayStation VR and PlayStation 5. The company is also working with Meta on Quest 2.
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Well it is expected really, we have already launched PS5 for over 1 year, so PSVR2 launching soon is ok.
This is playstation getting close to PC, a couple years from now it will already be heavily outdated.
With that said I hade ps4 VR and it was alright but I sold it, I much prefer to play games on my 100inch projector, is immersive enough with much better graphics and don't have to wear a helmet.
My PC VR oculus rift was great, much better, with 3 sensors there was no dead spots and I could build the room, and you get the red walls when you pass the limits which was great, controllers on PC were far far ahead of the ps4, especially battery which was lasting almost 2 months on 1 charge.
I ended up selling it as there was 3 hdmi cables and cables up the walls for the sensors, I decided VR is not worth it until you get like a single cable, with wireless sensors, or even better wireless helmet.
The difference between console and PC is that, although you can buy better PC hardware, the number of users who own that hardware is smaller. Games will inevitably come out on the hardware that more people have (and these days we are talking about needing 50 million users to sell games to).
As far as VR goes, I don't think that enough people have bought in for it. Even the PS5/XboxS have sold a combined 25 million and we aren't seeing many "truly next-gen" games coming out...
VR will never take off until it’s cheaper. By the specs this thing will cost as much as a ps5. Barely anyone will buy it.
There’s way more users on VR on pc tough. Consoles will never be able to overtake pc for user base.
You haven’t seen many next gen games? I have. Stuff like returnal is next gen to me. Then again what is next gen? Pc has been next gen for a long time now.
I don't think that's the aim, my hope is that we may get to a point where VR is not seen as separate or the next step that does away with traditional gaming but evolves in a way that sees it integrated from the ground up so when we buy a new console, when playing that consoles games library to do so by being able to choose to play each game either traditionally or using VR or switching between them
I believe that will never happen, at least not for the next 10 years.
VR features is costly, consoles are costly, and manufacturers want to keep price as low as possible to attract the biggest sales they can. VR will never be free to add to a console. That's like coming out with a PS6 that costs 900 dollars, comes with VR included, the problem is no one would pay 900 dollars for a console.
VR will never take off because of this, it can never be as cheap as adding an extra controller in the box, maybe in the future, lets say in 15 years when they can have just a pair of glasses, but even then there's the issue of needing a different controller for the VR, the future VR games will require most likely sensors for your body and many other things too.
If they could reduce the price of the whole VR package to 200 dollars I believe VR would get popular, it could get to 20 million at that price point, but the tech in it make it impossible to sell at that price unless sony is willing to take a huge loss.
Of course I thought it would be obvious that this isn't going to happen anytime soon, my main point was hopefully when the tech reaches a reasonable price rather than them being sold as separate pieces of tech, the industry chooses a path where VR and traditional gaming come together in one unit so instead of buying a headset for VR or a gaming console for screen based gaming you are just buying a console for gaming and the playing environment is dictated by you the gamer.
The only console maker capable of doing that in the future is Nintendo. . They are not scared of launching a much weaker console with the VR included and sell it at the same price as the sony and microsoft consoles. Unfortunately sony and microsoft know they cant do that, they have to match each other power and price. Remember kinect? It made microsoft launch a weaker console for 100 dollars more, they lost a lot of the market they had gained with the 360. VR would be the same problem. Unfortunately VR cant become cheap as it grows with time, Sure they could launch a much weaker and outdated VR but then people would diss it as a much worse experience than PC.
The old PSN logo became the controllers
They confirmed it was coming in Feb 2021 and revealed the controllers in March 2021. So yeah I definitely expect it to launch this year. That'd be a very early reveal otherwise.
Are those the controllers?
Yes, they oficially revealed them a while back, but just with photos and not much else if I can remember correctly.
A shame, after all this time they couldnt design a controller as good as the original Oculus rift that launched before the first PS VR.
They never learn...
He thinks VR a gimmick
Hehe
