If Sony Interactive Entertainment is always inclined to share the sales figures of its PS5, this is not the case regarding those of the PlayStation VR 2, as evidenced by its most recent quarterly report. However, the promotion of virtual reality games that will be released on it continues and the manufacturer is currently working to make it compatible with PCs. However, it seems that this is not going so well on the sales side, to the point that production of the helmet has been temporarily stopped, at least if we are to believe the article from the journalist of Bloomberg Takashi Mochizuki.
In the latter, he states that according to people familiar with the plans for Sony, production would have been paused until the stock of unsold units was sold… Apparently, sales have reportedly declined gradually since its launch in February 2023.
With an accessory which costs, as a reminder, €599.99 naked (for example here on Amazon), which is more expensive than the console needed to use it, we can easily understand the difficulty in selling it. In addition, real exclusives are few in number or not as attractive to the public as a Horizon Call of the Mountain taken from a flagship license. And with the closure of London Studio (Blood & Truth And PlayStation VR Worlds), which was one of the entities that developed virtual reality games among the PlayStation Studioswe can necessarily fear a certain withdrawal of virtual reality on the production side first party.
Should we believe what Takashi Mochizuki says? That’s the whole question, because as quite a few players have pointed out on the Web, it is not uncommon for his statements to be off the mark or erroneousas for the production of PS4 or that of the PS5 before its launch, or even concerning a Switch Pro 4K…
For now, we can only advise you to take all of this with a grain of salt.
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