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According to London Studio’s Stuart Whyte, speaking at Develop: VR earlier today, PlayStation 4 Pro owners are more likely to own a PlayStation VR headset than anyone else. This makes sense for a couple of reasons: virtual reality is actually improved quite profoundly on Sony’s supercharged hardware – and those who own a PS4 Pro are likely to be among the platform holder’s most engaged customers.

“The ratio of PS4 Pro attachment for PlayStation VR is high,” he revealed. “One in five PS4s sold now are Pros, but that ratio [for PlayStation VR] on PS4 Pro is higher again. It's definitely worth supporting the extra power available on the PS4 Pro when you're developing for PlayStation VR, but it's still also super important to run on a base PS4.”

Whyte added that the attach rate for PlayStation VR is pretty good, with the average headset owner purchasing about five games. “We're currently sitting at five games sold per headset, so we're seeing a really strong attach rate from our first year,” he continued. "Many of those games to date are smaller experiences, they're experiences that we as developers [use to] get to know the platform built around one or two mechanics. We feel that for VR to get to the next level, we need bigger, built from the ground up VR AAA experiences.”

Of course, London Studio itself aims to rectify that with Blood & Truth, a full-length gangster game based on its London Heist demo for PlayStation VR Worlds. This has been getting rave reviews from people we’ve spoken to who are familiar with the project, so we can’t wait to try it out for ourselves.

[source gamesindustry.biz]