A reader is upset at the price of the PSVR2 and frustrated that Sony has been spending time and money making a VR headset in the first place.
So now we know. The PlayStation VR2 will cost $550/£530. Now, some people will tell you this is actually quite a good deal for the amount of tech that’s packed into it, especially considering it comes with proper controllers and no need to buy a separate webcam. Those people are correct, and it is indeed a good deal… if you’re rich and don’t mind that there doesn’t appear to be any decent launch games.
Let’s just discuss that for a second before I get into the rest. Why is the PlayStation VR2, something nobody asked for or expected at this time in the PlayStation 5’s lifetime coming out in February without any games? Horizon: Call Of The Mountain seems to be the most high profile game, and it is due out next year, so why not just wait for that to be finished and then launch the headset then?
It doesn’t matter if the headset comes out in February, March, July, or December. Its potential audience isn’t going to change, nobody was sitting there waiting for it to come out at a specific time. And it’s not as if February is like November, right in the middle of the Christmas rush, it’s a usually empty month when nothing is going on. But I do think there is a reason Sony is determined to release the PlayStation VR2 then and it’s a very simple reason: they’ve gone crazy.
I’m not even sure I’m being sarcastic. Obviously, a whole company can’t just go insane but there’s no other explanation for how Sony has been acting these last six months. The almost complete lack of communication, no new game announcements even though they’ve obviously got a load on the way, and the fact that even when they have got something to say they do it via a couple of paragraphs on a grotty little blog… I don’t know how much the PlayStation marketing team earns but I can only assume it’s being heavily augmented by secret payments from Microsoft.