Media Create Sales Reveal PlayStation VR Launch Week Numbers

Media Create sales from Oct 10th - 16th have been posted on NeoGAF, suggesting that the PlayStation VR is seeing moderate success in Japan.

[PizzaSteve]

Demand for VR gimmick is not that high. Not surprise.

[WeAreLegion]

A simple "I haven't tried it, but I'd like to." would have sufficed.

[mikeslemonade]

Thank you for you test dummies who are buying it. I'm getting version 2.

As I said before but many of you refuse to listen, the hardware is not strong enough for VR.

[fr0sty]

I refuse to listen to you because I own PSVR and know that the stock PS4 is more than capable of a fantastic VR experience, and PS4 Pro will only make it even better.

[kamisama]

@mikeslemonade if no one buys the original product (psvr) then we would not even hear about a psvr2 so I'm guessing you are the dummie.

[bmky]

Boss Reply.

[S2Killinit]

they sold in 3 days in Japan alone, as many units as Vive sold in a month worldwide. It was confirmed that they have the highest selling VR devise on the market currently after a week of being released. That's the last I heard about sales.

[Ron_Danger]

The article is for Japan and it sold out the initial launch shipment so what exactly are you saying?

[calactyte]

VR virgin obviously. It's cool that you didn't read that in Japan it was an extremely limited release. But yeah instead of being all sour grapes, try it with the demo disk at a Best Buy or Gamestop then select the "Kitchen Demo". Don't flinch or jump and if you have a real set of balls allow a friend to video your reaction. Now if you stay still as a rock, without feeling even an inkling of fear, I'd say you've earned your stripes. Call PSVR the gimmick you think that it is. However if you do move unwillingly, if you do flinch I'd expect you to tell the world about how immersive VR is.

[Muzikguy]

Nah, immersion is a gimmick 😂

Edit:
I was being sarcastic lol

[Muzikguy]

Funny considering all the factors at play here. 60,000 in 2 regions in one week is quite good actually. You can definitely tell who would make a good business person and who wouldn't. Couple that with them specifically talking about how they've got a limited supply and it's even better. We have to remember this is only 2 countries and doesn't account for the rest of the world. This is a great start by all accounts, especiallly for a peripheral

[its_JEFF]

There's that word "gimmick" again... like I've said before, everything is a gimmick until it's not. Analog sticks were considers a "gimmick", rumble, motion controls, kinect, VR, Netflix, Self Driving cars, Cars in general. It's mostly a matter of perspective. Some people get angry when others enjoy something that they can't or don't, why do you care? why do you even try to rain on their parade?

"All these flavors and you chose salty" - one of my favorite quotes.

[Hanilugtehul]

Well said:) ✌

[TruM0607]

Yea VR sounds nice and emersive but I'm not paying this much money for some 1 hour or less "experiences".

[G20WLY]

Buy longer gams then. :^)

[kneon]

It's currently sitting at #13 and #29 on Amazon best sellers for October. Then there is PS4 Pro at #34, more PS4s at #52, #55 and #59, and an XB1s at #60.

So it seems to be outselling all consoles this month, that's pretty good for a "gimmick".

It's also sold out at every Best Buy within 50 miles of me, and there are a lot of them. When I was there on launch day they must have had 100 of them locked in cages near the cashiers.

[cabinotier]

great number for $500 peripheral.
disappointing number for dawn of the VR.

[Muzikguy]

It's $400 and I think these numbers are a great start. I'm curious to know the rest of the world's numbers

[cabinotier]

PSVR costs $500 including tax(48578 Yen without camera , 53970 Yen with camera) in japan.

[Death]

It's $400 plus the camera and the controllers. I paid $524 for the base unit, the camera and Driveclub. The remotes were $100 more.

[Muzikguy]

Yeah that's true with all the added stuff. I'll have to buy a Move when I get the VR but at least I got the camera already

[Hroach616]

Regular core unit in Canada goes for $599. Launch bundle goes for $699. After tax here your looking at around $782 for the launch bundle. And it's selling out everywhere here.
Think about that.

[C-H-E-F]

Canadians need to get their prime minister to do better, and build relationships with foreign regions. The taxes there is HIGH AF also, the currency is ehh, I think you're at 1 canadian dollar / 76 american cents. even at 599 that coverts to around 450 american dollars. so you are still overpaying for the vr either way and that's because of the high import taxes.
Think about that.

[Goldby]

@Chef,

Well you can blame Harper for that shit,
Trudeau is slowly changing things, and i mean slowly

[DialgaMarine]

Calling it "moderate" success is wording it very strangely. The device had limited shipments in Asian territories (50K in Japan,10K in China, etc.) and this suggests that it sold through every unit. I would call that a great success, seeing as demand is clearly much higher than Sony anticipated. If PS VR can sell 1 million + units before years end, that'd be amazing.

[spoonard]

Saying things are gimmicky is just a gimmick.

[Jayszen]

If Sony managed to sell out what was actually available in 3 days, I fail to understand how this is not good for PSVR. It is obvious as one can see from sales in Europe and the USA that if more units are available, they would be snapped up. Haters and XBox fanboys would like to besmirch PSVR for no other reason than the fact that THEY don't have it and their favourite console could not be bothered with VR until it was obvious that the PSVR (Project Morpheus as it was known then) was getting good reviews from testers and journalists and gamers were eager for the headset to be released.

The only truth one can glean from how the PSVR is selling globally where it is released is that it is a huge success.