PlayStation VR2 hands-on: A HUGE generational leap

The PS VR2 is a cut above the rest with gorgeous visual fidelity, a wide field of view, and great controllers with the haptic feedback that made the DualSense so good.

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[dan_kitty_vr]

Pre ordered this, cant wait..as a VR enthusiast I can confirm the price is very reasonable for the specs in comparison to other headsets

[Gangdump]

I’m so sick of people crying about the price of this thing. No one blinked an eye when they saw the price tag for valve index, but for PlayStation it’s an issue for some reason. So silly. It’s a next-gen VR peripheral. It is priced fairly. You want cheap? Go find a budget gen-1 VR device.

[TheRafcave]

Already Pre ordered the horizon bundle with 6 games ready to go! Picked up GT7 today! Can't Wait! 💯🔥😀👍🏽

[Freedommonk]

The price is great. I don't know why people keep saying its overpriced.
I personally wouldn't want it to be any less. If it was, i probably wouldn't even be buying it.
Bought the Quest 2 as a standalone, and sold it with in a year. It does have some decent and fun-ish applications, but it's only good for gaming with a PC. So, for the +£30 over the 256gb Quest, and PlayStations library, I'd choose the PSVR2.
I know £1000 is a lot of money, but for a Beast VR set up and library. Ps5 and PSVR2. It iS a Very Good price.

[MsUltraBob]

As someone who has only played on the Psvr1 I’m super excited for the second headset.
Can’t wait for my preorder to arrive.

[immortal]

I already preorder just sitting back waiting

[Popkmon]

I pre-ordered my PSVR 2 for Christmas and I’m so excited for it to come out!! It will be my first vr and my first experience in the vr world!! I’m happy it’s not just horror games, I’m not to good with them, I’d spew all over the floor in 10 minutes

[therealarien]

So glad Sony are going all in on VR so I don't have to shell out for a big rig. Gonna pre order this badboy for sure. I'm all in with VR!

[dstrix]

I just preordered this, it will be my 6th VR headset... I can't wait.

[anomalychasing]

Oh its on baby - the hours I spent in NMS in PSVR1 were in the 1000s. Just retired too so Im in. (yeah Im a big kid).

[AgentSmithK]

Me and all my mates preordered it. It works out the same price as the PSVR. Can’t wait to get it

[BLMYBY]

I’ve got my pre order in and I can’t wait. Not very long to wait either, we can now say it’s out next month 🙏

[-Old-School-Gamer]

INTERESTED IN PSVR 2 THEN PLEASE READ THIS.

PSVR 2 is well worth the price and here’s why.

The original PSVR was $400 at launch, which would be $470 today with inflation and that was for the headset only.

You then had to buy the camera and move controllers separately, the camera was a further $50 and the move controllers were a further $100 for a pair, taking the price of the full package to $550.

Therefore; making the price around $635 today when you included inflation, which actually makes PSVR 2 around $85 cheaper than its predecessor.

Plus, when the original PSVR launched, it was pretty weak specs wise when compared to its PC counterparts, whereas the PSVR 2 is genuinely a state of the art headset, with eye tracking, 4k HDR OLED lenses and haptic feedback in the headset, plus the controllers are also state of the art, with haptic feedback, adaptive triggers and finger touch recognition.

PSVR 2’s biggest competition, i.e. the Meta Quest 2 has none of those features and is nowhere near powerful enough to compete with PSVR 2 graphically either and that’s $500 for the 250GB model.

Although Meta have released an upgrade, i.e. the Meta Quest Pro, a headset that definitely comes closer to PSVR 2, that headset costs $1500 alone, which is $400 more than both a PS5 and a PSVR 2 headset combined, $500 more if you go for the PS5 digital edition.

Plus; although there are VR headsets out there available for PC, which are definitely capable of competing with (and even surpassing) PSVR 2, you would need at least $2000-$3000 for a capable enough PC and then another $1200-$1500 for a high-end headset, most of which don’t have the PSVR 2’s tech currently, i.e. headset haptics, eye tracking and foliated rendering; nor do they have controllers with haptic feedback or adaptive triggers.

Therefore; anyone who says PSVR 2 is too expensive, clearly knows very little about the VR market; so if you’re excited about PSVR 2 and are thinking about getting it, don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.

The only downside is the lack of backwards compatibility, because in my opinion the original PSVR has one of the best game libraries around, therefore it’s unfortunate that all those games won’t just carry strait over to PSVR 2. Unfortunately this is due to the huge difference in tracking systems.

The original PSVR used light tracking, which used an external camera to track the players movements, whereas PSVR 2 uses inside-out tracking, where the cameras are actually built into the handset itself, which tends to be much more accurate.

However; many developers have already stated that they want to bring their original PSVR games across to PSVR 2 (hopefully with enhancements) and most of those developers are offering a free upgrade, to anyone who bought their game on the original PSVR, so I would expect nearly all of the best titles to make their way over to the new headset.

Plus; the tracking system used in PSVR 2 is now the industry standard, therefore I doubt backwards compatibility will ever be a problem again.

I know most people would prefer the headset to be wireless, but in my humble opinion Sony made the right decision going for a single lightweight cable.

Had Sony tried to make it a wireless standalone headset like the Quest 2, we’d have very little chance of getting quality games, because Sony would have to mandate that all games work both standalone and connected, meaning developers would have to prioritise a weak mobile chipset.

The mobile chipset in the Quest 2 the biggest reason VR games have stagnated, because there just isn’t enough power available to make good AAA quality games, Sony know this which is why they’ve gone with a single cable.

They also couldn’t go for a wireless streaming option either, because Sony are a pug and play console company, could you imagine the uproar we’d have, if people bought PSVR 2 home and then found out that they then needed to go out and buy a brand new Wi-Fi 6 router and ensure that they’ve got gigabyte Internet, just to be able to use it.

Plus the headset would’ve needed additional components to manufacture, which would have pushed the price up even further, at least another $100-$200 and people are already complaining about the price.

VR has come a long way since the original PSVR launched and PSVR 2 is not just a generational leap, it’s more like a three or four times generational leap and it’s priced appropriately for where Sony want it to be, a budget entry into AAA, VR gaming, which is currently only available on PC for thousands of dollars.

Plus; Sony have a genuine plan to take VR mainstream this generation, by creating hybrid games and they’ve also made it much easier for other AAA developers to port their existing games into VR.

Therefore; we are much more likely to get many more full length AAA games this generation, because developers can sell their games to both the traditional gamers and VR gamers, for the same single development cost.

[gtrealm]

I was waiting to see if GT7 would fully implement psvr2 before I buy it. And boom!! They drop the news at CES..

[swavezmartin]

I am so happy I was able to pre-order the horizon bundle I cant wait for launch day. :) 😀

[darrjon]

I briefly tried my son's Meta Quest 2 that he got for Christmas and I was impressed, seriously considering getting a PS VR2. I'm just disappointed that it won't come in black, lol!!

[Deadmare]

I pre-ordered , just make sure you all have enough cash in your account come the week of release

[vgaportauthority]

It is a lot of money, but in the grand scheme of things, it's not actually that much money in terms of what you get for it. You literally make your console into the most immersive virtual reality machine known to man for 550 bucks... For people who have never tried VR it's hard to imagine, but VR is incredible. For many of us it makes other games feel pathetic (I do) and basically leave them unplayable.

I bought the PS5 just for the PSVR2, and GT7 alone is going to make the purchase worth it. That's how good VR actually is. There is no more immersive experience available to humans than VR... And you can get it as a 550 dollar addon to the console you have. That is one killer accessory right there.

Or hey, you could buy a 2023 OLED TV for 1500 bucks without batting an eye, getting exactly what you have now only maybe a biiit prettier....

Get in on that VR. It's amazing.

[burkedaniels]

You need to buy a TV to play flat games on PS5, you need to buy a VR headset & controllers to play VR on PS5. My tv was 3x the cost of the PlayStation 5. This VR set up is a great price when compared to every headset not called Quest 2 (which this isn’t really competing with)

[duanepureheart]

I'm invested in purchasing this new VR headset. Sony has done it again. I thought the PSVR was good at it's time. Now, PSVR is astonishing in my eyes. Eye tracking is something other VR headsets don't have so far. Neither, foveated rendering. I can't wait til February to get mine.