PSVR price: $399/€399/£349+more in OP, coming October

[Normchacho]

JWeinCom said:

Normchacho said:

I actually disagree with your main point. I don't think Sony will ever make PSVR mandatory by fully intergrating it. I think Sony will just treat it as it's own system from here on out.

Refering back to my gut, I imagine that Sony will be more than happy if PSVR sees a 10% attachment rate with the main console this gen, but will want that number to be something like 25-40% with the PS5 and onwards. Those kinds of numbers should be plenty to justify strong support.

I didn't mean that Sony should make VR mandatory.  That would be suicidal.  Regardless, fragmenting your userbase is always risky.  If developers can develop for 40 million people or 4 million people, it's a tough sell on the 4 million.  That may prevent VR from getting meaningful support, in the same way the Move, Motion Plus, and Kinect struggled.  On the plus side for Sony, the people who buy PSVR will, likely, be bigger gamers than Kinect fans were.  Even so, it's a tricky position.

Oh yeah, there is certainly a risk to it. Though, I think there is a chance that VR games may end up having what I'll call the Nintendo factor. Meaning that a good PSVR game may be able to draw a considerable chunck of the userbase because the only person buying a VR headset is the kind of person that's interested in VR games.