Shuhei Yoshida, the current indies bigwig at PlayStation but formerly the head of first-party, was one of the biggest early evangelists of PSVR. It stands to reason, then, that the executive believes PSVR2 is “truly next-gen” – but don’t just take his word for it, basically the entire media has been saying exactly the same.
However, Yoshida understands that the market for Sony’s new headset is comparably small compared to its console. “We’re super excited,” he said. “The virtual reality market is still small. It’s growing, thanks to Meta doing a great job of promoting the Quest, but compared to console gaming it’s a subset.”
Yoshida explained that, because of this, while you’ll still see tentpole titles like Horizon Call of the Mountain and Resident Evil Village release, it’ll be the indies that drive support for the headset. The executive, speaking with Games Industry.biz, explained that a similar trend occurred with the original PSVR – and as a result, smaller studios have amassed significant knowledge and knowhow in the medium.
He continued that, with the metaverse becoming a key talking point among investors, a lot of money is flowing back into these experienced indie VR developers. And that all spells good news for PSVR2. “You will see great VR games coming out of re-energised indie VR developers,” Yoshida confirmed.
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Curious about psvr2. I never played vr before, I suffer for vertigo sometimes, would this mess me up if I tried vr?
Would love to get it, I expect it is awesome and my experiences with other headsets have been neat, but there are a good few other theoretical big purchases I’d make first, and by the time I am ready it’ll have either died a death or been replaced.
Never say never though!!
Just like gamepass then 😋
Seriously though I'm hoping the rumour about hundreds of PSVR1 games getting brought over is true, if I get the PSVR2 on release il have tonnes of games to choose from. Hoping Robinson the journey is one of those games.
My only issue is that they failed to adequately support the first PSVR. How will they convince us that they’ll provide years of support the PSVR2?
@Americansamurai1
If you are up a mountain in horizon (or at the bottom I guess) then possibly.
It’s basically like real life in terms of perspective, so…
@BritneyfR_ee
I don’t agree they didn’t “adequately” support it. But, even if true, their strategy this gen seems different. They’ve stated that they are focusing on making games that are playable both both in VR and pancake mode, so dual development.
Everything has looks really good for PSVR2. All that remains though is the biggest hurdle. Price point of course.
Not going to be for me personally but I am intrigued to see more of it in action. And of course the price lol
@BritneyfR_ee They supported for ages ensuring it great releases even into last year. There were some great first party games, but you also can’t overlook support they secured with games like Hitman 3. Sony was on point in pushing for kinds of deals.
@Americansamurai1 I have vertigo, fear of heights etc but my experiences with VR never made me feel nauseous or dizzy.
Your mileage may vary but unless you’re standing and playing a game where your superman or that crazy first person Spider-Man mod, you’ll be fine.
Didn't the quest like the ps5 recently get it's price increased
@Jaz007 Sony not supporting PSVR is a crazy statement to make. Vita yes but definitely not PSVR. They raised the bar for the industry even though it was a weak bit of hardware.
@Would_you_kindly yes. The quest was originally $300 for the 64 gig version and $400 for the 128 gig one. Now it’s $400 and $500
I like indies on ocassion but this reminds me of the early PS4 days when Sony was trying to hype indies in order to excuse it's lack of AAA software
£350. That's my guess.
@Americansamurai1 i suffer vertigo and am a massive VR gamer, from PSVR, to PCVR, to Quest 2...ive never had issues.
I’m not happy with that news. It sounds like they are already ignoring it.
Since it is not easy to develop something like PSVR for “only” couple million buyers, I am curious whether PSVR will be PC compatible.
It could sell much more units, help cover R&D and spread PS presence on PC even more.
@BritneyfR_ee What exactly do You mean by "failed to adequately support the first PSVR" ?
Excluding the last few months there was a constant flux of new games. There have not been many big games, but still many good games. Given the relatively small PSVR user base it is not surprising that big studios avoided the risk and that there have not been that many 1st party contributions. Then there were also the technical limitations: limited power of the PS4, the controller, limited tracking volume.
Concerning the future it still has to be seen how much of the PSVR1 catalogue will be ported over to PSVR2. When believing rumours playstation tried to push developers to port their titles to PSVR2. So, we still have to wait, before we can say how much playstation cares for their PSVR1 titles.
I’m interested in buying the PSVR2 instead of the Quest 2 but if it’s more than £350 then forget it, any more than that then it’s not far off from the price of a PS5 and Series X. It’s only a peripheral at the end of the day, no matter how fancy and “truly next gen” it is. It’s price shouldn’t be close to or matching the console it was built to play on.
@MaccaMUFC The PSVR was £350 at launch six years ago, without move controllers, and it was nowhere near as impressive as this. I'd feel safe in saying that you can probably go ahead and forget about getting one if that's your limit.
I felt sick in just about every VR game I played outside of Statik and the head pong game in VR world's. Even Astrobot gave me some mild sickness when the camera moved forward.
But nothing compares to playing anything were you move at normal speed or in vehicles. I recall playing a FPS which came bundled with a gun peripheral. Got about 45 minutes in and felt ill for days.
As a side note I do get travel sick on occasion. So it probably ties in. Don't play vr if you get travel sick, it's not worth it.
If you have 10 mp (game as a service) games in development at you own studios and above that invest $7B in Bungie for the same thing, I'm a bit dissapointed that all we have seen now is the Horizon game. Assets where already there so it can't be to much of an investment. The promis of Hybrid Games is made but we still have to see proof of that. It's not that I don't care about indie games, some are amazing but I want big tripple A experiences and a 7 hour Horizon game isn't that.
@MaccaMUFC it's only a peripheral in the loosest sense possible because it requires the PS5, it's essentially a full blown console. As far as VR goes it will be industry leading. It has its own set of bespoke peripherals and controllers, as well as software. It's a generational leap above its competitors. I'm not expecting it to come cheap considering the excellent proof of concept that was PSVR was £350. And I'm ok with that because PSVR2 is an order of magnitude better. It's more of a leap in power and capability that any regular console to its predecessor has been for the 30 years.
@UltimateOtaku91 Isn't Robinson infamous for causing nausea even in people that don't experience vr nausea? I don't think that game will come back. Ever.
Just let me preorder the damn thing. Take my money, I don’t care how much.
@Americansamurai1 I suffered alot from motion sickness, when playing psvr. But certain games were better. The batman game in my opinion was amazing and I'm so disappointed they didn't build a bigger version of it. Its such a shame. I really felt like I was playing as batman. The detective side rather than the action.
But psvr 2 should be 110% better. You should be ok for short periods.
@Intr1n5ic It’s not about having a spending limit, I’d probably still get it even if it was £500 but that would seem a lot when the PS5 is cheaper and offers many more games that are bigger with many different genres. Plus PSVR is still a niche product.
@riceNpea The PSVR2 will be industry leading? Really? I see there’s a lot of other VR headsets out there that cost a lot more than this will, some of them are in the thousands and there must be a reason why they cost so much.
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