Sony Has 'Nothing Further to Announce' on PSVR2 Backwards Compatibility - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 February 2022 / 1,950 ViewsSony Interactive Entertainment boss Jim Ryan during the Sony CES 2021 press conference this week officially announced the next-generation VR headset from PlayStation will be called PlayStation VR 2 and the controllers will be called PlayStation VR Sense Controllers.
Axios' Stephen Totilo asked Sony PR if PlayStation VR2 would be backwards compatible with original PSVR titles. Sony PR said for now they have nothing further to announce.
XboxEra co-founder Nick Baker, who has leaked gaming news before, in a response to Totilo said he was told a year ago PSVR2 would not be backwards compatible. However, he does mention it is possible Sony has worked it out since that time.
"I was told almost a year ago it wouldn't be BC," said Baker. "But maybe they've had time to work it out since? Or maybe add it some time after launch? Would be weird to give away so many VR games that...can't play on the new device"
I was told almost a year ago it wouldn't be BC. But maybe they've had time to work it out since? Or maybe add it some time after launch? Would be weird to give away so many VR games that...can't play on the new device https://t.co/CGX4GuIkel
— Nick (@Shpeshal_Nick) January 5, 2022
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The Move controllers probably cause a problem for BC with some titles.
that would be the only thing that would remotelly make sense since the PSVR1 games work on PS5 quite okay.
Could be either generic remapping (like all gamers standard "translated" from either PSMove or DS4 to the controls of PSVR2, and we dont even know if we wont be able to use the DS for some PSVR2 games). PSVR1 could be used to watch movies and play regular game regardless of using DS4, so I don
t think it will be prevented to use DS with PSVR2.
The info may very well be true, but why would a xbox era co-founder be privy of this type of info for one year and only say that after sony say they don't have anything to comment on it right now?
I would say that even though I don`t believe any rumor, one that was said before the reveal and interview about having BC (even if limited, and for me if all games can run on PS5 with PSVR1 makes no sense to not work on PSVR2 since it is just a screen) is much more reliable than this convenient rumor.
Always wanted to play Astro Bot rescue mission, but was never encouraged to buy the PSVR for 1 game. Hopefully they make the BC a thing on PSVR2.
That probably means that it is not