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The next Meta Quest VR headset, the Meta Quest 3S, will be priced at $299.99, the same price as when the Meta Quest 2 released four years ago
Sony shouldn't even be thinking about another VR headset until they can properly support one.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem likely that Sony can/will do that. They're very eager to abandon anything that doesn't do gangbusters. PSP was legendary, and Vita, while really good, didn't take off and it became a legacy platform.
The biggest problem though is they would really need to commit to it stubbornly the way Meta commits to Quest. I don't know if that's feasible anymore given the high risk to develop these things.
Why is it that when Sony release a headset they are criticised for not supporting it (I assume you mean not making games for it), why isn’t the same being said about meta or Samsung etc, they rely on 3rd parties to create the games so it’s unfair to demand 1st party games from Sony and not anyone else. Sony make hardware they will continue to do so as long as there is money to make from it.
@Bigfish Meta does support their headset with regular updates, adding features, etc. There is also a major difference between those headsets and the PSVR2. Those headsets were built on an open PC platform, while PSVR2 was made for a walled-off console garden, which ultimately means Sony would be solely responsible for keeping it alive.
@"bigfish"
Meta banks a lot on their VR headset library. Yes, the majority of titles aren't first-party, but they are the ones financing those games and the ports they receive. Not to mention the heavy subsidies on their devices. That is why so many support them even if they hate Facebook.
As for Samsung or any other manufacturer, they produce PC VR hardware, which is a completely different segment. Many of these devices aren’t even targeted at gaming. The exceptions are PICO and Valve, both of which have faced criticism for not providing enough new game support for their hardware as well.
The problem with psvr2 is when they announce psvr2 games ps fans complain “where’s the flat games?” lol No one is talking about into the radius psvr2 being the best version rn or ghosts of tabor port coming later this year.
People defending Sony here don’t understand that they had a customer when the hardware was announced who did not trust Sony to support by time it was released. Having a tech demo as the flagship game felt deeply disappointing. I loved PSVR but there was not enough software to justify the price for vr2.
Sony abandon it, so does everyone else.
And yes people also want “flat” games for their hardware. Also a problem this gen.
@Cosmic Turtle
If you were referencing me I was not defending Sony. I am simply stating reality of the platform. Even if Sony released every PSVR1 library to the psvr2 it still wouldnt move headsets.
In terms of value of the PSVR2 I honestly think is underrated. I came from pcvr and the psvr2 is miles ahead in terms of immersion tech. Obviously the software support cancels that out but it’s more of an indication of a declining/infant vr market.
Nearly 200 games supported by psvr2 and counting…
Perhaps you actually pay attention to the product rather than waiting for over fluffed articles on n4g?
I mean, Xbox has not made 1 new AAA game in over a decade….
So, do you ask them to not consider a new console until they support the current one?
Honest people who followed VR and not the hardcore fans knew the bottom had already fallen out of VR before PSVR2 even launched. I remember the last years of PSVR1, All the AAA studios were done with it and I never saw any reason to buy a $550 headset for wired higher resolution Quest ports. The two big games for PSVR2 I wasn't even interested in either, Stopped caring about Gran Turismo when it became a GaaS thing and I never really cared for Horizon Zero Dawn.
@Rude-ro - I own a PSVR2 thank you, along with a Q3 and an Index (and a Rift and PSVR before those). I'm all in on the VR train.
Out of those 200 titles you mention, how many existed on the original PSVR or PCVR? How many new and original titles did we get?
I'm thinking of this as a great move for VR adoption for the masses at that price. I just want to see VR support grow, whether it's Quest, PSVR2, Vive etc. I much prefer running my games off of Steam, but the Q2 was a great entry into that access. Now PSVR2 players have that option too. Hoping that support will continue to grow!
*Btw, check out Subside that just hit Steam VR. It is an INCREDIBLE diving game for VR. Man, I love it.
Cut down or more like a Quest 2.5 if the rumors are to be believed. It features the same SoC as the Quest 3 but has the lens and screen of the Quest 2, with a camera array in between.
The world’s gone mad. It’s a revised budget spec model priced the same price as the non budget (essentially top-spec) version of 4 years ago… and everyone lost their sht about how good a deal this is.
Is that where we’re now at as a society?
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.
VRTechTube:
Hitman 3 has been rebuilt from the ground up in this Meta Quest 3 exclusive. We finally have some gameplay footage. So let's take a look at everything we learned from the new gameplay trailer for Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded
I am still so in love with Moss and Moss book 2 that I constantly go back and play those.
Can't wait for Madison in VR