{"id":1235632,"date":"2025-02-27T14:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T19:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235632"},"modified":"2025-02-27T14:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T19:10:25","slug":"the-playstation-vr2-will-get-a-drastic-price-cut-but-that-might-not-be-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235632","title":{"rendered":"The PlayStation VR2 will get a drastic price cut, but that might not be enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sony&#8217;s first PlayStation VR for the PlayStation 4 hit stores at the right price at the right time and ended up being one of VR&#8217;s biggest hits. The PlayStation 5&#8217;s PlayStation VR2? Not so much, unfortunately. In either an effort to clear unsold inventory, an attempt to revitalize the platform, or both, Sony has announced it&#8217;s dropping the price of the headset significantly.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in March, the main SKU of the headset will drop from $550 to $400 in the US. Europe, the UK, and Japan will also see price cuts to 550 euros, 400 pounds, and 66,980 yen, respectively, as detailed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2025\/02\/27\/a-great-new-price-for-playstation-vr2\/\">PlayStation Blog<\/a>. Strangely, the bundle that includes the game <em>Horizon: Call of the Mountain <\/em>(originally $600) will also drop to the same exact price. That&#8217;s welcome, but it&#8217;s also a little bit difficult not to interpret that as a sign that this is an attempt to empty inventory more than anything else.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2023\/02\/psvr2-review-plenty-of-improvements-but-is-it-too-little-too-late\/\">headset launched in early 2023<\/a>\u00a0but has suffered from <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2023\/01\/psvr-2-launch-includes-only-a-handful-of-exclusive-titles\/\">weak software support<\/a> ever since\u2014a far cry from the first PSVR, which had one of the strongest libraries of its time. It didn&#8217;t help that unlike the regular PlayStation 5, the PSVR2 was not backward-compatible with games released for its predecessor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2025\/02\/the-playstation-vr2-will-get-a-drastic-price-cut-but-that-might-not-be-enough\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2025\/02\/the-playstation-vr2-will-get-a-drastic-price-cut-but-that-might-not-be-enough\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s first PlayStation VR for the PlayStation 4 hit stores at the right price at the right time and ended up being one of VR&#8217;s biggest hits. The PlayStation 5&#8217;s PlayStation VR2? Not so much, unfortunately. In either an effort &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235632\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}