Games

Sony building walls around its ecosystem is going to be its downfall. If they dropped exclusives and went full on PC it could save them, but anything short of that is going to be bad for them.

Last gen about half of my friends didn't get the new playstation after owning the PS4.

Typically we have all had consoles and PC's, but they have finally decided to drop the sony ecosystem. Some of them even bought series-s box with gamepass for their kids.... I mean even Microsoft allows crossplay as much as possible, which Sony is reluctant to do.

The other half of my friends with playstation 5's have said that they are not going forward with the PS6.

Sony is on a death spiral as far as the playstation brand goes. As players switch away, it's going to speed up the decline as the people left will leave the platform to play with others.

Open up PSVR, make a commitment to crossplay, and stop the exclusives and PlayStation can thrive again and grow, not decline.

Maybe lower the prices, like half off or something.

NB: Careful, that reporter has apparently been wrong on a number of accounts regarding Sony's PlayStation business in the past, eg:

• Sony: "We have not changed the production number for PlayStation 5"
• Sony: "We have not cut PSVR 2 production numbers"

I wouldn't take this article too seriously / as gospel (although PSVR2 has probably not been selling like hot cakes).

I'd love to see the process they used when they decided to throw away backward compatibility with PSVR1 software. Surely at least one person on the team said it was a bad idea.

I thought out of all the VR hardware manufactures out there... Sony would be the one who had the best chance to get it right. They've got a static SKU of hardware for all software devs to target. They've got multiple organizations in every known type of electronic device. Yet here we are on round two of them flubbing the potential.

It would sell easy if they didn't use some weird hardware only on a select few PC graphics cards. Even if PC support was enabled by modders it would still sell but the hardware requirements are simply too much of a hindrance

Who could have foreseen that a $550 peripheral stuck to a $500 console, with no backwards compatibility and bad first party support wouldn't sell well?

I really want a PSVR 2, but I just don’t trust the library will be there to justify it. I might get a quest because I can do more with it than just game.

The Resident Evils, Pavlov, Gran Turismo are really good. Some more great games and a lower price on the device should increase interest?

People play software, not hardware. No enough quality softwares no sales, period. If we are talking about a niche product this is even more relevant.

I understand the difficulties, but if they did something to make sure it was backwards compatible, I would consider getting it. If they could get Alyx, I would be buying one now.

No Man's Sky is pretty much the only reason why I want to try it. I'm pretty happy with my PSVR1 otherwise.

I was very much eager to buy one until I saw its price tag

If they finish working on PC support then they’ll have no problem clearing their stock.

Well, who could have seen it coming?

Just about anybody, would be my guess.

I bought the PSVR1 at launch back in 2016, excited to finally BE in a virtual world. And for some games, I was absolutely blown away by the immersion. Skyrim, Dirt and RE were awesome in VR. Especially Skyrim was everything I was looking for.

I waited and hoped for more true games but all that kept coming was mostly short 'experiences' that felt like early 2000s shovelware, just in VR.

The best VR games were not Sony games but mostly third party games remade for VR.

When the PSVR2 came out, I decided to wait and see if Sony had learned their lessons and had at least many deals with third party studios to remake existing games in VR.

For now, it does not look that way, and a few exclusive tech demo games and some years-old PC ported games just do not justify buying a PSVR2.