PSVR2 Availability Expands to UK Retailers on 12th May

Finally. I've been waiting for this since launch.

Hopefully Curry’s is added to the mix too,

People might know its a thing now 😂 hope they do some kiosks like they did back in the day with the eye toy. That sold it for me.

I am anxiously awaiting the PS VR2 being on sale at Target in the U.S. because I want to use my store card for 5% off. It's not much of a savings, but it is something. It anything, it'll allow me to buy an additional game guilt free.

Great for those who have a preferred retailer. Though I wouldn't touch GAME. Paid delivery is not cool

Come on Very, don’t let me down !

@AndyKazama they even charge you for pickup of the game at their shops

I’d like to see some proper bundles for this. Hopefully retailers will be able to do their own. Good news regardless

Got mine from the PS Store. Bought pretty much every game released since then, and just really hungry for new content. Thing is gathering dust!! They need to hurry up with the Beat Sabre conversion.

So I'm assuming the limited release was stock level issues?

It really needs to be on Amazon. These days Game is all but dead. I have one within 90 minutes of me, 4 that used to be within that radius closed down with another shunted to the back of a sports store with zero floor space, just a counter.

When people can’t get it in Amazon they often just don’t get it, which is a problem when it comes to casuals who haven’t used VR yet, and so don’t know how wonderous of a game changer it is.

@Fishnpeas
You managed to play through 40 plus games in a couple of months! Lol, that will take me all year with my pitiful 1hr per day game time.

I guess Guerilla (Horizon) suggested them a date seeing it is exactly the same day as Zelda: Tears of the kingdom. Joking aside, it is not as bad as an proper hardware/game launch date and not in direct competition per say anyway. I am happy for those who want one now that they will be able to get one from retailers.

big ticket items like this for me really need to have the pleasure aspect of gettings something to take home and try out straight away.
i don't want to click a mouse ,have 500 quid magically vanish and then carry on with my week. also having to wait for the delivery on the day is a ***** not a joy.

not much chance of me getting vr2 but it being in an actual shop on a day i am bored with extra money in my pocket helps its chances for sure.

@BeerIsAwesome I think it's partly the reason but also to limit scalping.

That's a great date to release something. This way people can ignore it and focus on Tears of the kingdom instead

For the life of me I'll never understand why Sony decided to sell the Virtual Boy 2 in house only to start with.

One of the bizarest decisions known to man. Letting the retailers in on the act would have been free marketing and advertising for them.

I'd like to think the majority of readers of this website are fully aware if it's existence but your average consumer in the street has probably never even heard of it.

@Fishnpeas but seriously, did you play all of them? Which ones did you actually enjoy? I have bought around 10 (maybe 15?), but I'm having so much fun with some of them that it's hard justifying buying more at the moment

@BeerIsAwesome I think staggered release helps to mitigate scalping issues for those who want it ASAP. PS5 release could've done with something like this

Yes! I'm pretty sure Us retailters will follow since US Amazon accidentally put up a page that said May 12th as well and that rumor turned out to be true it seems.
I can't wait until I pre-order one of these at Gamestop.

@Fishnpeas How do you have time to actually play all of those games properly? Serious question.

@Member_the_game Agreed, plus there are in the know people like me who don't want to use an online order buy want to get it with an extra warranty beyond Sony's as well. I'm so excited and am glad I waited now.

@BusyOlf paid click and collect? Talk about nickel and diming 😬

@AndyKazama the RE4 steel-case version had a five pound charge for picking it up. I lol’d and then bought it elsewhere

@RonnieL

It released on 22nd February this year..... you must have heard of it right??

@Member_the_game
I think he’s just having a joke that you called it the Virtual Boy 2 instead of its actual name, the PSVR2, lol.

Had mine at launch, all I want is a new Astrobot to be announced please 🙏

@RonnieL

Sounds pretty much the same product to me, like I said, I'm surprised you haven't heard of it.

@thefourfoldroot1

I was having a joke myself by calling it the virtual boy 2 because of poor sales.

He's obviously taken what was meant to be a light hearted joke way to literally lol

@Member_the_game
Oh, right. To be fair it’s had demonstrably far, far, more sales than Virtual Boy 2! Lol

(And, to be serious for a sec, if the rumour about 300,000 is correct then this “disappointing” number is actually hugely impressive in the VR market in the month it covered, especially when it wasn’t even in shops or Amazon).

@thefourfoldroot1

Oh of course, I completely agree It's a fantastic piece of kit with absolutely amazing specs.

Jokes aside though I do feel Sony have shot themselves in the foot slightly with it, partly because it's extremely expensive (I'm not saying over priced but expensive). It's obviously a fairly niche product but it's just to expensive for your average consumer to simply buy on impulse and the fact they hardly bothered to Market it properly didn't help either.

As you say those numbers maybe be impressive in the grand scheme but I just can't help think they could have sold so many more with proper marketing and obviously selling it at retail outlets whether in store or online.

Still early days yet though so plenty of time to "turn things around"

@RonnieL

May I refer you to my post above (number 35)

cba to type it all again lol

@Member_the_game
Absolutely they could and should, but Sony’s marketing and consideration of their customers is absolutely shocking, and has been since the globalised structure was put in place. They are constantly shooting themselves in the foot and letting down the quality of their products.

I do disagree with the price comment though. Sony had little choice but to sell a high end system to differentiate themselves from the untethered low quality but cheaper ones…

Seeing as reward points were mentioned I'm still waiting for Argos to stock it, nectar points balance needs to be spent on something other than Lego... Although I'm still likely to be waiting a year or so for a price drop. The thing is ridiculously expensive.

@RonnieL @thefourfoldroot1 @Member_the_game if you think about it, they could easily reach or double that 300,000 in one month if it's available at all the big retailers.

@theMEGAniggle

Agreed, that was kind of my original point. I can't for the life of me understand why they didn't sell it though the retailers to begin with.

I guess we'll never know for sure but I'm fairly confident sales numbers would have been much much higher had they done so.

It's about time! It's bizarre it was locked beyond an obscure direct sale website that nobody even knows exists unless you were searching for VR to begin with. How do you grow market when you prevent people from buying product? Hopefully this happens in the US too and this can kind of soft-relaunch VR in time for summer and the holidays. Needs more content but it's so amazing. I basically don't use my PS for anything but VR anymore, and I don't want to wear it out on anything else. I need it to at least be successful enough to be able to buy replacement controllers because mine will definitely wear out. I use it daily. I have my Edge controller and the only thing I use it for is GT7 in VR lol.

Edit: Oh and Fantavision which is bizarrely zen, bordering on ASMR, and also makes me very glad Edge has replaceable sticks....

@Member_the_game You leave my Virtual Boy out of this!! It's awesome! I have both games! (srsly...)

Seriously though VR is such a hard market because at $550, you have half of the market saying they doomed it by not cutting more corners and going cheaper, and the other half of the market saying they doomed it by cutting too many corners and not just making it $1200 to make it right. No winning which is probably why poor VR is always losing.

@Rhaoulos If only TotK had Labo VR support....

@Member_the_game my educated guess is because of scalping issues or that production levels hadn't reached a point they were comfortable with.

@RonnieL I personally don't think they need to do anything at this current moment other than announce more titles for Summer and Holiday seasons. 300,000 sales for a HMD in one month isn't bad, nor slow. Then factor in the fact that it was only available on PS Direct. Certainly isn't a cause for concern. A price cut will come after a year or two but I wouldn't hold my breath.

This is brilliant news and I can't wait to get one!

For those arguing though, the Virtual Boy sold over 750,000 units, so PSVR2 has a long way to go to catch up.

@Member_the_game Look at the big picture. This is a soft-launch through and through. VR is tricky, and Sony understands it. I personally think this approach is the smart strategy for an unproven product segment like this. You get it in the hands of the enthusiasts first, then gradually expand it into the mainstream.

Either way, I'm having the gaming time of my life.

I own it let me tell you Gran Turismo 7 is incredible on psvr2 as is horizon the mountain.

Had a good couple of months with the vr2 headset and although I do think it is good it's not essential yet imo.Gt7 is very immersive but I prefer playing it flat as the visual clarity is just much better.It is nice to have for a few different experiences but I feel overall that it needs a few more iterations to become essential.

@SgtTruth I think there should be pods everywhere with gt7 a psvr2 headset and a wheel setup for the general public to try,saints and sinners although good is frustrating as hell until you get to grips with controls lol

@Gooseman42 @theMEGAniggle Never thought of that angle, so sure, I can get behind that reasoning. Imagine how quickly the PlayStation website would crash if they'd done it for a console launch!

@BeerIsAwesome that is true, but f*ck scalpers eh

@BusyOlf It's on their site now!

@__jamiie thanks, got myself locked in now to buy a PSVR2!

Going to be available through Very on 12th May also

@IAmAshCohen17 Hey, PSVR 2 has just popped on the Currys website as Coming Soon. So, I would imagine that will also be the 12th. I'm getting excited now.

@IAmAshCohen17 You can now order PSVR2 from Currys. I ordered mine this morning for delivery tomorrow. Excited.

@R_Ryder super I will have a look.