Shocking: Sony Promotes PSVR2 with New Trailer Showcasing Upcoming Games

I was always a bit skeptical about PS VR2, but I ordered one anyway during the BF sale. I’m just totally blown away. I was playing Horizon yesterday for the first time and I was just looking around in awe all the time. It’s like I’m rediscovering gaming altogether.

I would like to get more invested, but I'm still a physical game buyer, and with the cost of some of these digital PS VR2 games I was hoping they would get a physical release. I doubt it though, so I'll probably pick up the likes of Horizon COTM and Metro when they are in a sale.

"The company's current-gen virtual reality hardware hasn't really been getting the marketing push it deserves" or the (first party) software support that was hoped for.

Aces of Thunder hopefully..
Soon 😜

I loved my PSVR2 but I sold it in the end as just wasn’t using it enough to justify it clogging up dust around the place, it’s a marvellous piece of kit and games like Alien and Behemoth will be stunners.

I will admit though it’s a disgrace how Sony didn’t back it at all after launch in terms of first party support, I can only imagine how many units you’d have sold if you offered a The Last of Us VR title or even beating Meta to the punch with Batman Arkham Shadow.

@Ellie-Moo I get that for physical collectors it is nice to have an option of discs and it certainly is possible to change a disc while in vr - albeit a little tricky, VR really does lend itself to being all digital and not having to worry about coming out of the headset.

I just bought Metro for £8 using PS rewards thingy, which seems a good deal.

I noticed yesterday that there suddenly seems to be a few releases coming now. I really hope it continues!

I'm having the time of my life as far as VR gaming is concerned. Too many great titles, i can't even keep up! The combo Quest 3 and PSVR 2 is where it's at, i'm playing Batman Arkham Shadow and Metro Awakening(VR2) right now and then Behemoth releases in a week...😵‍💫

@Darude84 it is that good.

If you don't already have it, might be worth getting a month of premium to try out a few more games. There are 15 on there i think and some of them are absolute bangers!

@Darude84 welcome to VR, happy you took the chance, you got lots to dig into when your done with that one, enjoy!

I bought one recently couldn't resist at that price, I love vr , had the psvr but all those wires did my head in , then i got a quest 2 but couldn't play it for more than 30 min as the blur gave me headache , but this is a completely different level , horizon is superb , such a crisp clear image, now I'm a man in my 50s , my reactions aren't as good as they use to be and I ache more 😂 but i was playing synth riders for 2 hrs....2 whole hours , it was like I was back in the clubs in the 80s, fantastic experience , although I'm suffering this morning , my bloody back 😂 isn't gaming brilliant 😁

@Ellie-Moo
But digital VR games are a fraction of the price of non VR, plus go on sale all the time. I don’t think I’ve spent more than £22 on any VR games digital.

Completed metro awakening...think it's only the second game I've managed to see all the way through ...the tech for vr is decent but i just find it a pain to play...I do plan on getting the alien game though ...unless it gets absolutely abysmal reviews

PSVR2 was the reason I got a PS5 (just in hope, even before it was announced), as VR is just next level gaming. I’m so happy with it. Sure the pancake lenses are a disappointment, but otherwise I couldn’t ask for much more. And the games. I can’t keep up with all the bangers (admittedly I can only play a couple of hours a day max), but this narrative about there being no games is ridiculous. Not many first party sure, but who cares who makes them?

Anyone who is doubtful, just get one while it’s on sale. You will feel like you’ve just discovered gaming all over again.

I will say it is nice seeing some increased positivity towards both PSVR2 and the Portal recently. Feels like Playstation is finally getting their stuff together and software is lining up well.

Wish they would create some first party stuff like Nintendo did with Wii sports. Nice to see them acknowledge the product again though.

@Darude84 It’s something that’s impossible to explain to somebody without trying it, once you do though it’s incredible

I will be picking one uo tomorrow as i believe the sale is on until the 2nd. I sold my last one a month or so after release as it made me feel ill alot and the releases seemed to just halt but i didnt bother to push through the MS boundary. I absolutely loved Pistol whip tho and there appears to be alot more goodness out there now. Metro, GT7, the light sabre rythem game 🤷 the new one that looks a bit like super hot etc. Im sure im missing a boat load of titles. At the offer price its a no brainer for me.

With the latest discounts and a bit of a marketing nudge in the run-up to Christmas, maybe this will help.

There's definitely some interesting software coming out soon to soonish which is tempting me to dust off my unit as well.

Not entirely abandoned as yet.

@Medic_alert I was indeed looking into this yesterday, but didn’t do it because there are only a few PS VR2 games on there, certainly not 15? Which ones do you mean?

At first I thought there were more, but half of them seem to be only demos.

@Darude84 100% spot on! PSVR gets so much flak but you can't appreciate how much of a game changer it is until you play it. Check out RE4 if you can as that is amazing. Walking round the castle and seeing it at full scale is phenomenal

@Ilyn yeah i agree. Its just something you cant explain to someone. When i first got my origional one i was explaining to the guys from work what it was like and ended up bringing who whole rig in just to show them. They were blown away by it.

@Ilyn I own RE 4, Village and GT7, but I don’t dare to play them yet since I’ll probably get sick as a newbee

It's just sad how Playstation refuses to leverage their unique strength compared to Meta and PCVR by not making their big games playable in VR. Games made exclusively for VR will usually have smaller budgets because of the smaller userbase.

Just imagine games like Helldivers or Days Gone in VR. The games are already there, they just need to add the functionality, something that modders manage to do very well on PC.

@Darude84 best to get use to vr before playing them I remember my first time playing until dawn rush of blood on psvr1 it was strange as frist but it takes time and yes I have played re 7 in vr still hoping capcom port to psvr2.

I just got mine in the mail yesterday!!! The wife and I booted up some Beat Saber last night and had a blast. Can't wait for Behemoth and the new Alien game. Definitely gonna check out the free trial for Legendary Tales!! A physics based co-op dungeon crawler sounds so fun and hilarious

@Darude84 Sony make this extremely hard to find online but from the ones I have added to my library -

Pistol whip
Kayak mirage
Job Simulator
Ghostbusters frozen empire
Walkabout mini golf
Humanity (was on essential a while back)
The last clock winder
Vacation Simulator
Walking dead saints and sinners
Walking dead saints and sinners retribution
Before your eyes
Synth Riders

That's 12. Not sure if I have them all though.

@Darude84 one of my favourites for just simple chilling is Walkabout Mini Golf. Its so simple and easy to play and helps build vr tolerance.

@Medic_alert Synapse has been added to this list recently, too.

Nice to see some positively around the psvr2. I've loved mine since it's release day. A great package with some truly great gaming experiences.
Definitely getting Aces, hitman, wanderer and the new alien game.
Highly recommend to new owners star wars, both saints and sinners and the arizona games. Though GT7 with a steering wheel set up is one of the best gaming experiences you'll ever have.

@Darude84 GT7 was one game that disnt effect me at all.

@Medic_alert Thanks! I’ll look into them.

@Ilyn yep love that game too and you really don't have to move much as you can warp to the ball with R2 - avoids any potential sickness.

It is one of my favourite vr games.

Good to see Sony giving some love to PSVR2.

Not much bought for ps5 but its hammered via steam. Great kit.

@Serialsid f1 23 on steam is a corker, and assetto corsa competizione, and automobilista 2. Vr is perfect for sim racing. I know I'm lucky to have a pc too just for games.

I can highly recommend Red Matter and Red Matter 2, both excellent games with really impressive levels of environmental interaction and physics.

I've been playing Metro recently, there are some ropey visuals at times and the environments are somewhat unsurprisingly a bit samey, but interacting with your items/inventory feels really tactile and the combat against humans enemies is really good, and maybe even better than HL Alyx.

@Slippship I bet they are great experiences too. I was really hoping for F124 to come to psvr2, but they just don't seem interested.

Somebody must have had a gun to their head to make them do this. Their support for the PSVR2 has been nothing short of disgraceful. I LOVE my VR2 and games like RE4, Village, and Horizon are literally some of the best VR experiences ever made. I still haven't played the new Wstrobot game because I'm still salty about it kicking VR owners in the junk. One of the biggest middle fingers in Sony history.

I'm a complete convert to VR after picking up a headset in the previous sale. It's amazing. GT7 with the headset and a wheel is a top tier gaming experience. It's completely transformative.

@Ellie-Moo collecting physical for PSVR2 has actually been really fun. There aren't many releases and it's very possible to collect them all.

@Old-Red it warms my heart to see people saying stuff like this about VR.

It is just so hard to explain to people what it is like to experience.

I hope as more games hit, more people will get interested because in my view it is the best thing to happen in gaming for so so long!

@Darude84 i felt a bit sick playing gt7 initially, especially with cars with a lot of body roll, but it went after a couple of days and ive put 100 hours plus in since July and never felt it again. Btw Arizona Sunshine is fantastic if you like shooting zombies 😉🧟‍♂️

I've jumped back into VR with the recent discount and am absolutely loving it again, it seems to be doing pretty well in this sale and I'm seeing a lot on Twitter about it.

Hopefully Sony use this as a springboard to help give it some momentum, especially as the Pro hugely benefits the few updated games I've played

Bought psvr2 yesterday in the sales. I will struggle to ever go back to a normal racing game again after playing GT7. My god. Can't wait to try more stuff out

Would love a V2 of the headset, with pancake lenses, and an option to play wireless.
Especially the tiny sweetspot, is annoying, after gotten used to Quest 3.

@Darude84 tbh I found RE4 easier that other games as you are moving a decent amount and looking around to aim. The movement seems to help alleviate any sideeffects.

For any new buyers, Without Parole on youtube just did a vid with 50 essential games for the PSVR2 and their list is spot on.

So many great titles and that list can help you prioritise which ones to look at first.

Can recommend the Globular cluster solves any problems with the headset slipping, knocking you out of the sweet spot and adds more comfort to a already comfortable headset. I was a day one adopter of Psvr2 and now rarely play flat games my library has expanded to over 100 titles. I agree the only way to actually appreciate the immersion that vr provides is to give it a go and there is no better time to buy than now with the current sale price and the awesome titles Behemoth, Aliens and Hitman to name but a few just around the corner. If you are on the fence between PS5 Pro and a PSVR2 I would take the PSVR2 all day long.

Wow, I haven't seen a comments section with that much positivity around here for ages. That's the magic of VR, I guess.

PSVR2 is a marathon, not a sprint. It's an avenue for future growth, and a value add for the PS5 ecosystem. Sony hasn't been perfect, but there's a strategy at play.

Good to see Sony doing so. Vita they just went eh give up we don't have western devs to promote trailers for so why bother, was so annoying. Like promoting Indies sure they helped them out but didn't do ads as much or did they it's just people didn't talk about/pay attention? I don't know how much of their Vita tagging or otherwise applied to Indie trailers of the past and did more PS4. But they barely cared to promote the Japanese games 1st or 3rd party for it at all to the Vita western audience, probably because they knew they'd seek them out themselves and they did but even still.

So to see them do so for PSVR2 and because of the western games supporting the system that want to or can and think it has a chance, have a vision for these games/apps on the system, and also many exciting IPs in here.

Metro VR is probably the only one I care about but it's still something then going 'that's cool but nah'. The others are fair, or those I remember from past showcases too.

Like to me it's not about IP either it's the execution even if in this case it is because it's Metro. Like GT7, RE and more are probably fine games, and IPs I am not fussed about (GT games of old fan only at this point, same with FM, same with old left behind racing games with better ideas) but GT7 to me progression sucks so much VR is not an illusion to break that away for me it's still a core of the game I hate regardless of the headset on.

That and if devs actually don't still overboard garbage 'try to be realistic' and push the motion controls worse and worse then the learning of PSVR1 or the GOOD button/motion balance of Wii for bad Wii launch title design that's on them being stupid. Some PSVR2 games feel like because not enough time/attention to that and too much their worlds/their thoughts of immersion when the controls suck.

But when Indies vary of those that put effort into controls and those that also make basic modes/boring content versus good ones with that and aren't repetitive or nostalgia weak projects. The handful that do well VR or not deserve their extra time and thought they put into them. Not a quick return for a garbage project that doesn't stand out.

I'm surprised they care for PSVR2 that much (it's 1 trailer but it's better than no trailer) and go eh PC was just expanding our options like PS Vita TV was.

Wait a few years and see if they still are going to promote it though, that's when the real answer saying 'eh we tried, moving on we don't care enough anymore starts happening' Sony does, sigh.

Like I don't expect things like oh Move, or Labo or others with people going oh they aren't supporting it anymore.

Well to me if the ideas are used up, that's all they had in mind for it/how far teams planned/can think of, not that it sold bad.

But with VR it's very different how much it needs support to really get somewhere and continued further.

As if the VR controllers aren't the Move successor which they are and for more then the limits Move had with the cameras prior besides the light tracking being fair.

I got the pc adapter as well. It's really good when playing half life alyx. That game is the best looking vr game I've ever played on pc. I got Arizona dreams 2, Metro, Call of the Mountain, and star wars on the PS5. All of which are really good fun. I do still get a little motion sickness if I play for too long though.

@Serialsid the sole reason I bought/made a pc. Pure console gamer then Elite Dangerous loses console support and psvr2 dies on its feet unless you want a horror or slightly iffy shooter. This PC better bloody stand up for a few years yet... 🤣