From Eurogamer: "Wow. Wow, wow, wow. That's the word that keeps springing to mind when I try to sum up my time with PlayStation VR2. As a fervent fan of VR for many years now, it's safe to say that my first hands-on experience with Sony's upcoming headset wowed my VR-loving socks off. This sleek and stylish unit was all I could have wanted for an upgraded PSVR headset and much, much more.
In terms of technological and visual quality, this feels like one of the more memorable generational console leaps. Experiencing the difference in visuals between the PSVR1 and the PSVR2 brought back memories of graduating to the sparkly, sharp, high-definition games of a PS3 after spending years playing games on the PS2 in standard definition."
VGC writes: "Both the standard and digital models are going up by around $90."
Even accounting for the weak yen, that seems a bit excessive. It’s even stranger considering the rumors of a PS5 Pro possibly launching by the end of the year, which means that in Japan, it could cost significantly more than $600, probably close to $700 - a high price for a console.
The price increase is excessive. If the value of the yen is to blame, then I would expect the console price to be adjusted to match the price of the $500 disc PS5 at which would be ¥71916.58. Instead Sony added an additional $50 USD raising the total to ¥79,000.
I'm not sure if they have to pay extra fees to import the console but the PS5 has had so many revisions that Sony should be able to keep the price inline with the US price at this point. I believe part of this increase is because they can increase the price without worrying about any fallout.
Global inflation combined with Sony having such a large share of the console market they can do whatever they like and you will damn well accept it.
Xbox has a smaller share of the market(miniscule in japan) and still raised the price(twice this year) of the series X in japan...so everyone is doing whatever they like.
Yet inflation fell in the last year in the United States. Though I’m not sure about Japan.
Sony just leaving it up to Nintendo at this point. PS5 obviously not gonna be a mainstream product over there. Xbox is not relevant.
Folks in the U.S. don’t understand that the U.S. had one of the lowest rates of inflation. It’s worse in almost every other country and the U.S. dollar is a lot stronger which makes imports even cheaper. I would love to see deflation but we’d need a recession and mass layoffs before that would happen,
Nooooo you do not want to see deflation that spells complete disaster for an economy. What you want is wages and growth to be consistently higher than inflation.
The VR Games Showcase has come and gone.
So much stuff has been announced and revealed. We get our first look at games like Grim, Hitman 3 VR, Vendetta Forever and much more.
Here is everything that was announced.
Upcoming VR adventure for Meta Quest, PSVR 2 and PCVR, Skydance's Behemoth, has a confirmed November launch date.
This looks amazing. Shadow of the Colossus crossed with Blade and Sorcery combat. I can't wait.
Looks like sony have created another piece of great hardware!!
Im not much for VR but if everything is a psotive as this i will defs pick one up a bit later once there is more content on there later in ita life.
The jump will be huge, because of the specs of the ps5, the quality of the psvr2 and the new gsmepads. Now they need games with quality
Mostly waiting for the price before I decide. I had the original PSVR and loved it (even with the messy set-up, horrible controllers and mediocre tracking). Seems like this is a much more elegant solution.
I live in Japan and due to inflation and weak Yen, suddenly electronics are increasing prices by up to 40% 😒 anything over ¥49,000 and I'm out (the original was ¥39,000).
Another Wow (after new Zelda trailer). Great year ahead :-).
I’m excited for village, good thing I waited.