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potato_hamster on 19 January 2018
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habam said:
potato_hamster said:

Over two years, Sony has sold 2 million PS VR headsets. That means that less than 3% of PS4 owners have bought PSVR despite the headset selling for half the initial asking price during Black Friday. In a shorter time frame, people have bought millions more PS4 Pros.

How come more people chose to buy PS4 Pros over PSVRs if it's a much, much greater experience?

PSVR launched oct 13th 2016. 2 Years ago was Jan 20th 2016. They sold 2 Mio PSVRs already in dec. 2017, so pretty much 14 months after launch.


Where do you get your over 2 years from?=

 

BTW PSVR seels better then Rift/Vive and also sold better then the Xbox One X during holiday season on amazon. (according to amazon charts).

It was also far above the ps4 pro on amazon charts during holidays btw.

Sorry, 14 Months. Still less than the Pro which has greatly outsold it. Up tp June, the PS4 Pro represented 1 in 5 PS4s sold since its release. That's over 2 million units. It's surely sold more than that in the 7 months have followed, meaning it's sold more than PSVR.

During the Holidays, the PSVR was on sale and selling for less than $200 while the PS4 Pro never saw a price cut, and was selling at twice the price. If the PSVR didn't outsell the Pro, it wouldn't bode well for Sony's confidence in VR going forward. Sony is doing everything they can to try and make VR gain traction. And what do they have to show for it?

The best selling VR headset ever at 2 million in sales. How impressive.

The fact that it's the best selling VR headset with *only* 2 million speaks volumes for how niche PSVR still is. It has not come close to having mainstream appeal, and there is no indication that the 3% adoption rate it's experienced so far is going to improve significantly enough for Sony to even entertain the idea of shipping the PS5 with a VR headset.