PlayStation VR 2 - Blog post announcements for specs and Horizon Call of the Mountain teaser

An unexpected announcement. They've literally nothing to lose by doing this however. Sony get some additional hardware sales (which now must have completely stalled) and some owners will have some additional games to play.

Never know, it might actually increase the install base to a point where Sony decide 'hey, you know what, maybe we should MAKE SOME BLOODY GAMES FOR THIS THING'. Especially if they release them on PC and PS5.

A good start, now open up PSVR 1 backwards compatibility.

Making PSVR PC compatible seems like an open goal really. Should have been like that from the start.

It'll sell more hardware and presumably we'll start to see some of the PSVR exclusives make their way over as well.

The VR market was always going to be too niche to support two walled gardens AND a PC eco-system.

This sounds extremely positive although the details are very light.

It can't be that the PS5 is gonna run PC VR game code directly, can it? And how can the various PC VR game controller inputs be matched to the PSVR 2 controller inputs?

I'm struggling to imagine how this will work, beyond the usual process of games be ported over. But, hey, it sounds good, anyway!

jawa_ wrote:This sounds extremely positive although the details are very light.

It can't be that the PS5 is gonna run PC VR game code directly, can it? And how can the various PC VR game controller inputs be matched to the PSVR 2 controller inputs?

I'm struggling to imagine how this will work, beyond the usual process of games be ported over. But, hey, it sounds good, anyway!

Meta quest is plug and play compatible with steam VR maybe PSVR2 will be same. Controls aren’t that different are they?

jawa_ wrote:This sounds extremely positive although the details are very light.

It can't be that the PS5 is gonna run PC VR game code directly, can it? And how can the various PC VR game controller inputs be matched to the PSVR 2 controller inputs?

I'm struggling to imagine how this will work, beyond the usual process of games be ported over. But, hey, it sounds good, anyway!

Pretty sure it's going to be using PSVR2 to run PC games on PCs. Whether that's directly via some kind of adapter (the PSVR2 requires a special kind of USB port which the PS5 has but very few PC GPUs do, so an adapter of some kind would be required), or through streaming (the PSVR2 would be connected to your PS5, then tracking and controller data are streamed to your PC which is running the VR game and streaming VR video back to the PS5).

FatDaz wrote:
Meta quest is plug and play compatible with steam VR maybe PSVR2 will be same. Controls aren’t that different are they?

I'll guessing the controller functions can be mapped across, but I can't think how that'd be done by games unless their code was updated. But, hang on...

OldSoulCyborg wrote:Pretty sure it's going to be using PSVR2 to run PC games on PCs. Whether that's directly via some kind of adapter (the PSVR2 requires a special kind of USB port which the PS5 has but very few PC GPUs do, so an adapter of some kind would be required), or through streaming (the PSVR2 would be connected to your PS5, then tracking and controller data are streamed to your PC which is running the VR game and streaming VR video back to the PS5).

...right! So it's more "PC using PSVR 2" rather than a PS5/PSVR 2 running PC VR games. I suspect this could be the case; the news reports appeared to suggest that PS5 owners would be running PC VR titles through their PSVR 2 kit... which probably won't be the case?

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Oh dear. A friend bought one second hand the other day and i got to try it and have to say it looks amazing (horizon call of mountain). Still don’t regret choosing meta quest over this though. Sony just never learn. It’s no wonder people aren’t buying it, 12 months in and no new exclusives or even announcements. Dead on arrival.

I wish PSVR 2 were doing well but even at launch it felt like it might struggle and it really has.

It launched at a time when the console itself was only just becoming widely available, the cost remains too high (even though the kit itself has good tech and build quality), and - the real kicker - for most people there probably aren't enough good games available to justify spending out the cash being asked for it.

Right now it feels like the cost can't be reduced that much because of the tech and the manufacturing costs; and the market is too small for developers to spend time and money creating quality games. I really enjoyed the original PSVR but even if I did have the money I'd be hesitant to buy the new kit based on the games available.

Not sure how reliable Bloomberg is these days reporting on Sony's affairs, but even so many of us could see the most likely outcome the moment the pricing was announced. The fact the software has all but dried up has hardly helped. Lack of backwards compatibility with the majority of the VR1 library was another misstep.

It's clearly not a bad product as those that have experienced it usually say it's amazing (particularly on Gran Turismo 5 and Resident Evil Village) but just like many other console add-ons of the past it's just so happened to come at the wrong time, at the wrong price, with lacklustre developer support.

PlayStation VR 2 - Blog post announcements for specs and Horizon Call of the Mountain teaser

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