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I think the choice to put 2TB of storage might be an expensive choice now tbf

I just wanna now if it improves psvr2 performance for games like GT7 and RE4

Not including the stand is stupid though let's be honest.

Anybody get one if they pre-ordered fom GAME uk? They've taken my money days ago but I haven't received anything from them since, not even an email.

I'm hoping the current success of astrobot and flop of concord, will lead them to invest more in astro and produce a PSVR2 version of rescue mission, with some extra levels added.

This is probably the only game that I would be completely against releasing on PC, due to the way it uses playstation hardware as in-game mechanics.

Ordered mine from GAME hate that they charge for delivery, but oh well.

@LN78 I wish bud, I think I'm on the younger side as far as commenting on this site goes, but I've got an old 3D harry potter blu ray that I'd like to try from back when my dad had a 3D tv. But given what companies are like these days can't see it happening unless it prints fortnite money lol.

I've stayed largely out of PSVR discussions for a while, but I have seen people's views. While I too am very annoyed at sony for lack of 1st party support (namely at least some type of astro bot content) I have noticed some things. It seems that a lot of people are just anti-VR in general and very clearly even if they won't admit it, wanted it to fail from the start. I mean have you seen the reception to the batman Arkam VR game? I knew it would be niche, I didn't think it would sell more than 5 mil but I would've considered it a success if it did. I like my VR headset for what is worth (obviously even more of if I got it at this price lol). I prefer it wired, means I don't have to bother with a battery which is especially useful for my extended GT7 plays and never had any issue with tripping over a cable, as honestly if your moving that much I think your overdoing it a bit.

Both excited and furious at the same time as this to me does mean that the whole Jim Ryan being against PSVR2 from the start rings true. Makes me feel quite betrayed to be honest.

Certainly feels that way at the moment, nerfs seem to make harder difficulties even more sweaty without fixing other weapons as intended. Hopefully this changes things.

I guess I'm happy the multi billion company is doing all right?

But damn what's happened to push squares' comments section recently. Its become filled with fighting, troll bait, and honestly a bit of tin foil hat theories lol. Can't we all just get along without blowing things out of proportion. I thought games and its relations were meant to be stress relieving not stress inducing.

@GamingFan4Lyf just want to say bud, that nintendo aren't one of the richest in japan..... they ARE the richest in Japan as the company has no debt lol (there was a recent article for it).

But yeah I agree with everything else you say btw nice insight.

@GamingFan4Lyf They may be referring to how most FF players are over 40 at this point.

I'm in my 20s so I guess I fit their survey funnily enough.

Good to hear I liked 16 lacked a bit of variety especially in meaningful sidequests, but overall very good with some of the best boss fight presentation I've seen in modern gaming. Then I played rebirth, beat it and was like they are not going to get new players with that ending IYKYK.

Given how much I hate the direction that game took I'm glad its ending, I knew it was being codified, when they removed being able to zero your weapons, and the terrible map design limited vehicles (seriously 1 jet for 64 man teams) to boot. Looking forward to the next entry however especially if it is like BF4 or BF1.

Granted I don't know if they fixed what I put earlier but thats how put off I was.

Can't complain, kinda of wish after the fall had a flat version so I could play with my VR antagonistic buddies

@wildcat_kickz Yeah, I only wish the map showed you which planets unlock others would help a bit to see the patch so that I don't waste time on irrelevant planets you know, for democracy!!!

@wildcat_kickz It wasn't a bug, certain planets open a path to others, in this case we needed to take ubanea to get to tibit however, we lost draupnir partway through which closed off ubanea before it was liberated (it was at 93% when I checked it), therefore we needed to quickly retake draupnir to get back on the path.

@Th3solution No worries with the "rant". I hope you get a portal soon bud.

@Th3solution I agree with you, its downright silly how personal people are trying to make it.

As to the reason, if the comments here are anything to go by, it seems that many are still burned by the Vita flopping, which I feel is why many seem to love to trash on the PSVR2 and its relatively low (not necessarily poor, thats up to sony) sales. And that any similiar kind of hardware must've only been bought by fanboys or idiots for not buying a vita instead.

@EfYI I think you're right on the money about the industry being less than expected, people are making out that VR is this massive behemoth in sales when in reality its still very niche, as I keep pointing out the MQ3 hasn't sold too well at the moment. If the VR industry is doing anything its due to the MQ2 but even then it has retention issues.

I think for the price you're simply not getting enough, although that comparison is largely due to the MQ3 which isn't flying off shelves either.

That being said it, what it does well, it does well but its held back by hardware limitations (PS5 isn't powerful for max res of the headset) and awful lenses which is my biggest gripe as after having to reuse my psvr1 headset even that has better lenses. The wire for me is a non issue as it means I don't need to care for a battery, and I'm yet to trip on it.

I'll take a hoodie for democracy, can wear it while drinking my liber-tea!

@JayCee-007 I think that its not so much the headset but that the PS5's blu ray player doesn't support 3D output, but still hopefully for an update maybe one day. But with the death of mass market 3D media I can't see it happening.

@Mikey856 GT7 in VR is so good, its damn near impossible to go back to the old flat version. Makes me excited to think. a PS5 could improve the visuals further. Its why I'm happy the headset isn't wireless, that way I can race without worrying about the battery dying mid race. Got my first pole position, 1st place, clean race ever using the headset on laguna seca.

@dschons I second that, mine had a weird glare on it (looked like glue?) They changed it no problem, and a buddy of mine couldn't tolerate VR so he returned it no problems.

I think there is of course room for improvement but damn I think people expected this thing to fly of shelves when in reality its done about as well as other VR headsets, in fact the only headset with a modicum of succes (that I think people expect) is the MQ2, cuz even the MQ3 isn't exactly flying off shelves. I think people still haven't realised how niche VR still is.

It also seems that most who enjoy VR (not necessarily VR2) like it and those who were on the fence or don't own one believe its failed horrifically. I honestly think its done about as well as sony expects which probably explains the price.

@TrickyDicky99 I gotta be honest I'm not entirely sure how reliable gamertagVR is (we're on about the youtuber right) I learned a long time ago that people often push their own agendas (background deals etc) they stretch the context a bit. Sales of certain software could fall of a cliff eventually pretty sure that always happens at some point but if its the video or twitter. But he has also given praise to VR2 and certain software recently from memory.

The biggest concern is the fact that sony themselves have admitted that its more a nascent business than a core business and they expect organic growth rather than an explosion of sales, but hey it's at least made more money than the last of us online am I right lol.

Its also not like the MQ3 has been flying off shelves, current popularity of metas platform is being driven by MQ2. Point is VR still isn't mainstream and sonys PS5 exclusive hardware for now is still a small product in a very niche market.

@TrickyDicky99 I usually agree with a lot of your criticisms as many are fair, but if given by sonys last statement on the product was anything to go on, it seems that Sony priced the hardware so they could maximise profit per unit because many VR players spend a lot on VR software and truth be told I'm one of those, I've probably got more VR software than native PS5 flat games at this point. So sony probably doesn't count it as a flop as they're making money off the software.

@Hamst88 Not being able to buy controllers seperately really bothers me, like what if I get really worn thumbsticks or bad stick drift or break a tracking ring.

@Member_the_game At least its a better point to explain that you don't feel that the price tag is justified by the product.
Its like people who brag about their high end PCs and come up with lame crap like "oh just admit you're poor" but for some people, extra frames and resolution isn't worth the price tag, or more specifically a couple grand more.

Am I happy with mine yes, could it be better yes, the lenses do need some improvement and I would say if a PS5 Pro exists it should upgrade some games to use the native resolution of the headset. But I do wish it would have some first party games, even if they were mini games like The Playroom VR, or ports of say wipeout.

I love my VR2 for all the pros it has but, yeah I gotta agree with a lot of people sony pooped using those lenses they're not good in fact the OG VR1 lenses offer a clearer image. Still I prefer wired over wireless just because I play mine for much longer than any battery lasts.

I do agree a quest 3 is a better PC headset as most PC software won't use the VR2s features at this point.

@__jamiie They probably have made profit, but as I'd like to think I've done my homework on this, but microsoft have never released publicly how much profit (if any for that year) the xbox division makes that is a fact I believe so there's no way to confirm that. But in my opinion I do think they make profit but this shift in strategy (probably from shareholder pressure) just highlights if are they are making enough profit, to keep the shareholders happy.

Point is they'll be fine they're just looking at the long term for growth I think.

@__jamiie the numbers wasn't so much a quote as a hypothetical and either way you have no way to refute the possibility, and your statement that just because its microsoft is just as nonsensical Microsoft have made bad business decions in the past the xbox arm in particular made a huge blunder with the launch of the xbox one something no doubt undoubtedly they're feeling today.

@__jamiie honestly generating $4 billion in revenue means squat, seeing as revenue doesn't mean profit or meaningful profit. I don't think the MS shareholders would be happy if 4 billion of revenue equated to 5 mil in profit.

@11001100110zero

Vampires hasn't but I gotta admit I doubt its one of those 4 just because as you say its not an xbox studio game or even published by them I think.

Ori could be a good shout as it was published by them.

Called it, nothing massive but some games will show up. the Internet was just going crazy as always.

But then again what four games could it be?

@BaldBelper78 I'm aware about the revenue generated by the gaming arm of MS with the ABK aqusition however as many have said and myself it doesn't mean that particular division is producing much profit, it does highlight how important gaming will be to MS though.

@Jey887

You absolutely can't even if your company is worth near 3 trillion dollars. People seem to forget or misunderstand the trillions is the share value, (what it would be to buy out ALL of MS shares) and the people who own those shares want returns on their investments as they don't have those trillions. A CEO is responsible to increase profits for their shareholders, if the gaming division isn't pulling much profit then those shareholders will get noisy.

In another note as microsofts gaming division becomes larger they will also be increasing their expenses. 3 triple AAA games developed in house might keep gamepass profitable but since the acquisition spree I doubt that £13 sub is generating much profit.

OK I'll be honest way back I was one those kids that asked for xbox live and MS points for my 360 so I'm not too shocked. But can we be serious how small (and pathetic) a sample of 500 is being used to generalise a population? As a scientist I'm insulted.

There we go, damn a few days ago every old timer here was complaining about it apparently not being major, should've been patient and waited.

Hmm if those earbuds sound good for the price I'm tempted to get them particularly for VR, I have an AV amp so I'm sorted elsewhere for sound.

Damn, what's with all the hate on a racing game adding a fair number of cars? I mean its not all the patch notes but I'll probably assume its just a bunch of old farts who don't play online lol

Sweet, a nice Christmas present for me!

@JP80 Hmm interesting, never found much of a difference adjusting the speakers on the valve index ( if that's what you mean) to putting the earbuds in my ears myself on VR2, but I guess convenience helps right over quality because damn the speakers on meta quest 2 sucked buns.

@MagisterMagi The downside to being cheaper is that the image is far inferior due to less horsepower, though agreed VR2 does get ports of old meta games, but then it would be cheaper to produce those games in the first place for meta would it not?. Though meta appear to be shifting focus to AR instead so its worth being wary of.

@Hoodie718 after finding VR2 NMS to be inferior to the boosted VR1 on PS5, the recent update resulteded in a dramatically improved product which is far superior now. Makes me think they rushed VR2 support using last gen VR as a base setting and worked up from there.

@Jswift56 I wouldn't be hopeful for a price drop for a while buddy, this is one of the few PS products sony sell for profit, and make up for the low install base due to the large consumption of software VR users buy. If it does drop I doubt it will be more than £50ish.