Sony has announced that the recommended retail price (RRP) of the PlayStation VR2 hardware has been permanently reduced by close to a third, to $399.99, starting in March 2025.
The decision follows a couple of discount periods over the past 12 months which saw sales of the virtual reality headset soar by over 2,000%, and although the new price doesn’t quite match those record lows it’s still a more tempting deal than it was before.
PlayStation VR2 originally launched in February 2023, bringing a significant upgrade over the previous VR entry from the brand. That included not just hardware, with the per-eye resolution of 2000×2040 and wider field-of-view, but technology like foveated rendering, motion sensing, and DualSense-style haptic feedback on the Sense controllers.
With Gran Turismo 7 available as a launch-day title for the PSVR2, it had all the ingredients for success. Our own experience and that of GTPlanet forum members is that it transforms the game in such a manner that many don’t want to go back to flat screens (though some HUD improvements would be welcome!).
However, the device has been dogged by rumors of poor sales up until the discount period last summer. Sony itself has only ever reported unit sales once, to note that it exceeded the original and far more niche PlayStation VR.
GT7 remains the only real-world racing game (along with the My First Gran Turismo demo) with PSVR2 support and, while there’s now an order of magnitude more games available than there were at launch, fans are still enjoying the same handful — Pavlov and No Man’s Sky particularly — as they were two years ago.
Both the standard set and the special edition which includes Horizon: Call of the Mountain and some game-related box branding will be priced at $399.99 in the USA (before taxes), £399.99 in the UK, and €449.99 in Europe from March. That’s around 28% less in the USA, 25% in the UK, and 20% off in Europe.
The two sets are also ¥66,980 in Japan, and while prices in other territories are not currently available we’d expect a similar 20-30% discount anywhere it’s sold. This is just the RRP of course, and retailers other than PlayStation Direct may carry it at different prices.
Nonetheless, if you’ve yet to get on board the PlayStation VR2 bandwagon but have been considering it, it seems like a good time to do so.
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