THE does not seem to have been a great success for . A little over a year the company suspended production until it could manage a stockpile of unsold inventory, according to .
The company is said to have manufactured more than 2 million units. According to analysts at IDC, the company sold approximately 1.7 million headsets in 2023. Perhaps most worrying for Sony is that sales appear to have slowed significantly throughout the year . Hardware sales often pick up before the holidays, but the fourth quarter was the slowest sales period yet for the PS VR2 according to IDC – the company says Sony only sold 325,200 units during those three months.
The lack of compelling games (or at least the perception that it is) hasn’t helped make the PS VR2 appealing to potential buyers. Overall, Sony has only released four VR experiences for the headset and has yet to announce any other first-party games for the platform. It is also recently , one of its few in-house developers creating VR games. THE games from the original PS VR headset may have hurt the current model’s prospects as well.
In our review, editor-in-chief Devindra Hardawar gave the PS VR2 , believing that while it was a great headset overall, the high price and doubts about long-term support were significant concerns. Additionally, the headset only works with a PS5, but that could be about to change.
Sony that he was testing official PC support for the PS VR2, and that he hopes to roll it out later this year. This could potentially give the company a much wider customer base for those who are interested in hardware but don’t want a PS5. As such, this could help it sell some of its inventory. Another thing that would help is to reduce the price. At $550, the PS VR2 costs more than a PS5, which is absurd.