PSVR2: Next-Gen Boogaloo

[Neon Ignition]

You can tell preorders are starting, PSVR1 headsets are popping up at a steady rate on ebay for cheapish prices

[Asura]

Gotta admit I'm loving how the hand-wringing over the price has given way to "ordered one"

[wakka]

Snap. I got the bundle in the end too.

Just realised I probably should have done that. I had assumed the £40 additional for the Horizon game was just the cost of the Horizon game added on, but seems it'll be sold separately for £60. Oh well. Hopefully they'll issue a physical version and I can flip it after beating it.

Gotta admit I'm loving how the hand-wringing over the price has given way to "ordered one"

I reserve the right to complain and then completely ignore my own complaints

[Asura]

I reserve the right to complain and then completely ignore my own complaints

I'm not judging it's exciting. New hardware always is. And I remember the weekend my PSVR arrived; I barely slept. I had to buy eye drops.

[CMcK]

Just realised I probably should have done that. I had assumed the £40 additional for the Horizon game was just the cost of the Horizon game added on, but seems it'll be sold separately for £60. Oh well. Hopefully they'll issue a physical version and I can flip it after beating it.

Better be a physical copy I don’t want to pay £40 for a code.

[Neon Ignition]

It's a code and until the line up expands you're not paying anything close to £40

I still can't believe Astrobot and Blood & Truth are going to be lost in time

[fuse]

It is a digital code in the bundle edition, the blurb has said as much unfortunately.

[wakka]

It's a code and until the line up expands you're not paying anything close to £40

I still can't believe Astrobot and Blood & Truth are going to be lost in time

It's £40 if you buy the bundle edition. £60 if you buy it separately.

[Asura]

Better be a physical copy I don’t want to pay £40 for a code.

I would be surprised if many of the PSVR2's games ever get physical releases.

[QualityChimp]

I still can't believe Astrobot and Blood & Truth are going to be lost in time

Still need to get Blood & Truth!

[Neon Ignition]

It's about a tenner on ebay atm, I think on sale via psn at £13

[Lebowski]

logged in checked stock "yup i can still order" then logged out again.

be strong be strong Leb, be strong.

[CMcK]

I can’t imagine this will sell out before launch if they are on track to make two million units.

[kryss]

Still able to order here...I put my order in with Walmart and a $10 off coupon.

[Neon Ignition]

It's expensive, for a limited market, it's only real notable game is overrpriced, up for pre-order during a cost of living crisis, as a recession kicks in, weeks before Christmas, on a limited userbase format. The only way it would sell-out would be if miniscule numbers were produced which I wouldn't have put past them. I think the February release date is the key mistake, it pushes it away from an impulse Xmas gift idea to something with a big price tag on it just before taxes ramp up again. Gating this for now through the Direct store was very much an attempt to cut out retailers on early units and to mask order statuses. Either they made a **** ton of them and so were stupid in over producing or they have made a conservative number and the demand isn't there for that number.

This isn't even a knock against PSVR. Personally speaking, I've spent more on VR before so I won't pretend they couldn't sway me or won't at some point but it's been absolutely, staggeringly poorly managed by Sony so far as a proposition.

Throw open the pre-orders to standard retails, market it from January 01 2023 and communicate the reasons to own one. They need to talk a ton more about the first year road map for the device, the better experience it delivers and the support it will be receiving. The most notable gaming factor of the device so far is the PSVR games you can't play rather than the ones you can.

And patches - lots and lots of patches - utterly inexcusable that many PSVR games don't work with it to some degree. Like hell games like Wipeout, GT7 etc can't run out of the box.