Sony’s PlayStation VR2 headset will price $550 within the US when it launches on February 22, 2023, nearly precisely two years after the headset was first introduced.
The $550 package deal will come bundled with two tracked, handheld “PS VR2 Sense” controllers and stereo headphones, Sony introduced in a weblog publish Wednesday morning. A $600 bundle will embody the VR-exclusive Horizon Call of the Mountain.
On the floor, $550 looks like a large improve over the $400 asking value for the unique PlayStation VR again in late 2016. But that comparability is a bit deceptive. First, $400 in October of 2016 is price the identical as about $490 in at this time’s {dollars} when accounting for inflation. Second, the unique PlayStation VR required a monitoring digicam and two PlayStation Move controllers to manage many video games.
Those equipment have been bought individually or included in a $500 bundle when the unique PSVR launched (about $613 in at this time’s {dollars}). PlayStation VR2, then again, is packaged with two hand-tracking controllers and makes use of “inside-out” monitoring that does not require an exterior digicam.
Sony’s new headset will not be appropriate with the PS4 and won’t work with authentic PlayStation VR video games, both. Today, Sony additionally introduced 11 new PSVR2 titles that may launch someday in 2023.
Of these introduced video games, six will probably be accessible for preorder alongside the PSVR2 {hardware} beginning on November 15, suggesting they are going to be accessible at or close to the headset’s launch.
Those titles are:
- The Light Brigade
- Cities VR
- Cosmonious High
- Hello Neighbor: Search and Rescue
- Zenith: The Last City
- Tentacular
Sony has beforehand revealed many of the related specs for the PSVR2 headset, together with a 2000×2400 per-eye OLED show, 110-degree discipline of view, 120 Hz most refresh charge, and headset vibration. The headset additionally incorporates a simplified single-cable console connection and cameras for each eye-tracking and a “passthrough” view of your setting.