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Do You Own A PSVR?

Yes 18 35.29%
 
No 33 64.71%
 
Total:51

I friggin' love my PSVR! Ever since I got it my PS4 has become a VR-exclusive machine. I just don't care about flat games anymore! I'm not saying those are bad, but I'd take a small VR game over a big AAA flat game any day of the week. I skipped God of War and Detroit and I didn't even miss anything. I know the sales are kinda slow and most AAA publishers ignore VR by now, but screw them, we're getting more than enough great Indie games, so I'm fine! It's VR or bust for me from here on out.

I adore VR so much that I also got an Oculus Go the other day for my VR fix while in bed or on the go. On tuesday I was travelling home from Britney's show in Mönchengladbach (which was absolutely amazing btw!) and while on the train and still in full fanboy mode, I snapped on my Oculus Go and watched her whole Femme Fatale show from Toronto in glorious 3D on a virtual 150" screen. It doesn't get much better than that, that is the very definition of awesomeness in my book!

Everything is better in VR, so I'm happy to see that the hardware keeps on selling, even on a slower pace. Can't wait for the next generation of headsets. It will only get better from this point. =)



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Errorist76 said:
potato_hamster said:

During Black Friday, you could get a PS4 + PSVR for the same price as a PS4 Pro.

They sold more PS4 pros.

You should work at a weekly market the way you're comparing apples to oranges.

Yeah for sure. Apparently, the fact that so far, given the same price, more people preferring playing some PS4 games in 4K than playing some PS4 games in VR for is an "apples and oranges comparison". That's totally not a reasonable comparison at all. You got me.



I'm not impressed by that number. Especially since it's cheaper than it's PC competitors.



zorg1000 said:
DonFerrari said:
So much for people that claimed it bombed and sold only 1 million... so we are 3x over what you thought...

Also 7 games per PSVR is incredible attach ratio for a peripheral. Also can't say it's buffed by non-PSVR exclusives when on the top 10 only RE7 shows up (which is still full PSVR) and isn't even first place even though it's incredible.

Who said it sold only 1 million? The reported 1 million last June and 2 million in December.

Can't say names, but if you enter in other VR threads they were always saying how much of a bomb it was and that Sony wouldn't give more numbers, and on they having over 50% of the market and crying it showed that they couldn't make the market big and all other excuses.

flashfire926 said:
That's what, a 4-5% attach rate? And coupled with the fact that it took a good eight and a half months to sell another million, as I supposed to be impressed?

So I guess considering it costs 300 USD and if we do a conversion on the attach ratio for a 60USD game (and you still need to buy games to use PSVR, people bought average 7 games) any game with less than 20% attach ratio is a failure?

People buying PSVR in average would have expended 299 for PS4 + 299 for PSVR and 210 for games (averaging on the 30 per game since there are smaller experience and full priced ones) or over 800 USD on the experience, I call that quite strong for an peripheral. In fact sold more than Kinect 2 which was bundled with all Xbox sold for just 100 more than PS4.

potato_hamster said:
Errorist76 said:

You should work at a weekly market the way you're comparing apples to oranges.

Yeah for sure. Apparently, the fact that so far, given the same price, more people preferring playing some PS4 games in 4K than playing some PS4 games in VR for is an "apples and oranges comparison". That's totally not a reasonable comparison at all. You got me.

At end of generation more people will have bought PS4Pro at 399 USD than they bought WiiU at under 299 USD. This clearly shows people prefer to play PS games with added pixels than any Nintendo game.

PS4Pro play whole PS catalog and one would be choosing between buying PS4 vanilla or expending a little more for PS4Pro, on PSVR he is buying 2 HW for a reduced catalog.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

OTBWY said:
I'm not impressed by that number. Especially since it's cheaper than it's PC competitors.

Yes, alone PSVR sell more than all other competitors... besides the competitors having larger install base (much over 100M PCs out there) and being numerous, they can't even compete in sales.

 

Xbox have been cheaper than PS4 for a long time, WiiU was always cheaper, neither sold more than it. So the "it is cheaper" excuse doesn't apply here.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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DonFerrari said:
OTBWY said:
I'm not impressed by that number. Especially since it's cheaper than it's PC competitors.

Yes, alone PSVR sell more than all other competitors... besides the competitors having larger install base (much over 100M PCs out there) and being numerous, they can't even compete in sales.

 

Xbox have been cheaper than PS4 for a long time, WiiU was always cheaper, neither sold more than it. So the "it is cheaper" excuse doesn't apply here.

It's the easiest and cheapest way for a real (non mobile) VR experience for a device that has an installbase of 80 million people. It should sell way more, yet it doesn't. Why? The games are largely uninteresting and lastly, VR is not there yet.



OTBWY said:
DonFerrari said:

Yes, alone PSVR sell more than all other competitors... besides the competitors having larger install base (much over 100M PCs out there) and being numerous, they can't even compete in sales.

 

Xbox have been cheaper than PS4 for a long time, WiiU was always cheaper, neither sold more than it. So the "it is cheaper" excuse doesn't apply here.

It's the easiest and cheapest way for a real (non mobile) VR experience for a device that has an installbase of 80 million people. It should sell way more, yet it doesn't. Why? The games are largely uninteresting and lastly, VR is not there yet.

PC install base is still larger, there are more than one device selling for it and they have been severely discounted. Still PSVR sell more than all of them combined. Sure it is a failure.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Sounds good, I hope to see more support for VR in the future;



DonFerrari said:
OTBWY said:

It's the easiest and cheapest way for a real (non mobile) VR experience for a device that has an installbase of 80 million people. It should sell way more, yet it doesn't. Why? The games are largely uninteresting and lastly, VR is not there yet.

PC install base is still larger, there are more than one device selling for it and they have been severely discounted. Still PSVR sell more than all of them combined. Sure it is a failure.

Dont things like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive require a high-end PC? I the overall PC install base is higher, im not so sure about the high-end PC install base though.

 

With that said, i dont think PSVR is a failure, i dont see it as a big success though either.



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OTBWY said:
DonFerrari said:

Yes, alone PSVR sell more than all other competitors... besides the competitors having larger install base (much over 100M PCs out there) and being numerous, they can't even compete in sales.

 

Xbox have been cheaper than PS4 for a long time, WiiU was always cheaper, neither sold more than it. So the "it is cheaper" excuse doesn't apply here.

Why? The games are largely uninteresting and lastly, VR is not there yet.

I'm sure you're speaking from experience. Please let us know..how much experience do you have with PSVR?

Would you have 2D gaming also considered to be "not there yet" until this gen of consoles?

Last edited by Errorist76 - on 16 August 2018