PlayStation VR2 Headset Release Date And Pricing Info is Here

After months of ready, we lastly have an concept how large your pockets will have to be so that you can strap Sony’s new PlayStation VR2 headset round your noggin. Essentially, it’s going to value you greater than the worth of a full PS5 for simply the bottom setup.

The firm wrote early Wednesday that the VR2 headset will value $549.99. This contains the headset itself and controllers. Of course, you’ll want a PlayStation 5 console to run the rattling factor. While preorders for the headset, controller charging station, and preliminary slate of video games must be accessible on Nov. 15, the official launch date is ready for Feb. 22, 2023. Direct orders from PlayStation will ship out on launch week.

Sony additionally revealed its Playstation VR2 Sense controller charging station that’s going out the gate at $49.99. Thankfully, it doesn’t appear to be a vital addition, as you possibly can nonetheless cost the controllers utilizing the PS5’s USB ports.

PlayStation additionally revealed the preliminary slate of 11 PS VR2 titles which can be additionally launching subsequent February. It contains video games we’ve already seen, such because the rail shooter The Dark Pictures: Switchback or the rhythm sport Pistol Whip VR. This is along with already introduced video games like Horizon: Call of the Mountain and a VR model of Resident Evil: Village. 

It’s been six years since Sony’s final VR launch, however this new version will solely work on PS5, in comparison with the earlier machine that was appropriate with PS4 consoles as properly. Of course, its working upgraded specs that put it above units just like the Meta Quest 2 by way of each value and energy.

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Unfortunately, all these PS VR1 gamers won’t be able to take their games onto the PS VR2, which is a really unusual determination contemplating how the PS5’s restricted sport library is bolstered as a result of its broad backwards compatibility with PS4 video games. PlayStation exec Hideaki Nishino mentioned this was as a result of “PS VR2 is designed to deliver a truly next generation VR experience,” particularly with its haptic suggestions controls and environmental scanning programs.

Sony in all probability wants a win with its PS VR system, as its newest quarterly earnings from Tuesday present that the corporate has lost close to 2 million PlayStation Plus subscribers because it relaunched the service. The firm has sold only 3.3 million PS5 units this past quarter, which is similar as final 12 months and is way beneath what it’ll want to succeed in its goal of 23 million consoles offered by March.