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Is the PSVR2 Worth It?

I have both, 1 and 2.
The PSVR1 currently has a much better library while only a few select titles have made it over to the PSVR2. I also have HOTAS for Ace Combat and Star Wars.

I don't think the PSVR2 is worth it right now.

It's still fun and great fun can be had but more and better games are still stuck on the PSVR1. If racing sims are your thing then I'm sure GT7 will blow your nuts off.

I have a launch PSVR2 which remained in plastic since delivery until Thursday June 1st after Beat Saber was patched. I used it once as Beat Saber is still a bit wank and jank on the PSVR2. It will likely not be used until Beat Saber is patched again or something cool from PSVR1 makes it over to PSVR2.

Some very dedicated people utterly disagree with me but I don't really see anything on the horizon that will change my opinion any time soon. Oh yeah, RE4 should be amazing.

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Do you like vr? If so, you are going to enjoy it. If not, you wont. If you want to invest for future PS vr, keep it.

The only actual VR that is worth in the market right now is the quest series.
 
SuperSaiyanWithDreads said:
To anyone who owns a PSVR2, is it worth it? Is it fun? How often is it used?
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Well, if you love videogames and you want to experience being INSIDE them, then yes. And it's a pretty darn good piece of hardware. But it's a niche market, and there are much less games on it than the regular ps5 catalogue. So, it's a must if you would be contented by few great unforgettable experiences per year, but no regular gaming (unless you would like the many indies that often come out).
Hybrid games like RE8 are the overall best direction in this VR timerame, plus the few great VR native games like Saints and Sinners.
For most of people there's also the need to grow VR legs, before being able to enjoy gaming freely.
 
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ABnormal said:
Well, if you love videogames and you want to experience being INSIDE them, then yes. And it's a pretty darn good piece of hardware. But it's a niche market, and there are much less games on it than the regular ps5 catalogue. So, it's a must if you would be contented by few great unforgettable experiences per year, but no regular gaming (unless you would like the many indies that often come out).
Hybrid games like RE8 are the overall best direction in this VR timerame, plus the few great VR native games like Saints and Sinners.
For most of people there's also the need to grow VR legs, before being able to enjoy gaming freely.
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I had the Quest 2 but I stopped playing it for months but idk why, I had a thought maybe psvr2 would be a big difference
 
SuperSaiyanWithDreads said:
I had the Quest 2 but I stopped playing it for months but idk why, I had a thought maybe psvr2 would be a big difference
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Lol No, it's the opposite. It simply has a better display but for now it's less usable than any other VR set. It's better but not drastically better, don't go for YouTube hype. It's the difference between ips and oled screen phones.
 
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I don't think it's a good time to buy right now, especially since PSVR2 is wired and has no other VR content than games.

Lot's of strong competition coming and seems like the PSVR2 isn't selling that great.

I'm waiting for the first price cut.
 
The HW is worth it. But the library is not if you have to ask whether it's worth it or not.

GT7 could be your killer app is you're into racing.

Beat Saber is really good.

There are other candidates, but PSVR2 lacks a BLOCKBUSTER game akin to Alyx.
 
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SuperSaiyanWithDreads said:
I had the Quest 2 but I stopped playing it for months but idk why, I had a thought maybe psvr2 would be a big difference
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Well, it depends by what you are looking for in VR: if you are attracted mostly by casual games like Beat Saber, then the Quest 2 is a better deal due to it being standalone, without a cable. If instead you are looking for the best immersion from the point of view of visuals, 3D audio and haptics, then PSVR2 is two generations above the Quest 2 (Unless you link Quest 2 to a powerful pc: then the difference would be mostly on the perfect blacks and colors of the OLED screens of ps2, while the level of rendering would depend by the pc used).
 
You've got a PC now right? Just pick up an older cheap Oculus set and try out that to see if you like it. You can get them very cheap even w/ the controllers
 
Played it for 2 weeks straight and haven't played it since. I've just been busy with work though. It's good value of you have the time to play on a regular basis.
 
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I'm waiting for, if, half life Alyx gets a port. Instant day one copy and vr kit for me.
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Believe me when I say this after 25 hours in Alyx, RE8 VR is on par with Alyx in almost every aspect. I would even argue that immersive interface is way better in RE8 because of the clever use of jacket and hands.
 
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I would say... no.

I bought mine at launch, direct from Sony obviously, and enjoyed using it for about two weeks and haven't used it since. Not saying that the experience is bad or anything but I didn't personally feel like many of the VR exclusive games had much depth to them (no pun intended) and some felt a bit gimmicky and even clunky to play. The best VR experiences for me were actually the ones added to previous games such as Gran Turismo 7 and Resident Evil Village but you are taking a noticeable hit to image quality in order to play them that way. Those two games felt like complete fully-fleshed out experiences which the VR enhanced rather than being built around VR which ultimately makes them feel shallow and a bit one-note.

Looking back though, I'm glad I got to try it and will keep it for now to see what future games will bring but, honestly, it's one of those products that is probably best experienced by borrowing it from a friend or relative so you can (a) try it, something you cannot currently do in the shops, and (b) return it once the initial buzz and thrill of trying the new games with an added dimension inevitably wears off or subdues somewhat.

PS VR2's biggest problems are that it isn't cheap and you cannot try it before you buy it, which limits its potential sales and appeal enormously. And with low sales numbers then what incentive is there for third-party developers to support PS VR2 going forward? Sony will obviously support it - for now - but they don't release that many games and their focus is always going to be more on non-VR games because that is where the biggest audience is.
 
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Yes absolutely.

Fantastic hardware, shit ton of good games already and many promising releases in the future.

Just dont expect to get a lot of big AAA games as the market is not big enough yet.
 
fran.fernandez said:
Nah.

Is fun and all, but not much to play. Will definitely collect dust after 1/2 months.

Buy used and sell asap.
I'm beat saber only. Waiting for RE 4
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Not much to play? What are you smoking?

After 4 months I already have 25+ games and there are still more that I want to play, not even counting future releases.
 
Launch buyer.

And I'm saying don't buy it. The PSVR2 section of the Playstation storefront already feels like a ghost town. If Sony was into announcing games they're working on like they used to be maybe things would feel different.

Infact I would go one further... if you dont have an up to date gaming PC or Series X buy one of those with the $$$ instead. At least those platforms will have some exclusive AAA this fall. The VR2 won't.

Didn't we just do one of these threads?
 
fran.fernandez said:
Please name those 25 . Not counting GT7, RE8, Horizon and quest games .
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Why shoud I not count PC VR or Quest ports?

This is dumb, 90%+ of people who buy the headset never played or even knew about these games.

And why should I omit the 3 top AAA games of the system?

"Name me games but dont talk about the best ones, and only talk about exclusives"

Yeah, right.
 
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Hold off at least a year anyway to see if they put out a newer revision.

The PSVR1 had the Rev 2 launch 11 months later where they fixed some issues and added some features (HDR, headphone holder etc...) so if there is any HW that sony has noticed that needs tweeking it will likely be updated early next year


Heck, You can't even watch youtube VR on the PSVR2 I think it was possible on the PSVR1
 
If you have disposable income then hell yeah it's worth it.

However after my initial honeymoon period of 2 months my play time dropped but it's mostly Diablo and FF16's fault.

But I still play it about 10 hours a week.

I'm never playing Forza ever again ( Or any flat screen racer) after experiencing Gran Turismo 7 on PSVR2.
I also fell on my ass a couple of times playing RE Village 😊
 
It is, like many have said, if you love GT7 and especially if you have a wheel setup. It already paid for itself in entertainment hours on that experience alone.
 
Absolutely not worth it. The hardware is shockingly terrible, from it's industry worst lenses with a microscopic sweetspot to the God awful headstrap that's torturously uncomfortable and quite simply won't work with a large percentage of people's heads (by nature of not having a proper Y-axis adjustment). PC-VR development (where PSVR got the overwhelming majority of its games) has been dead for several years now and Sony clearly has no interest in funding enough stuff to make PSVR2 worth its $550 buy-in (which is significantly higher than the console itself). Should the Vision Pro, Quest 3, and Valve Deckard somehow lead to a miraculous resurgence in VR development, PSVR2 will be several hundred dollars cheaper by then so no reason not to wait. Jim Ryan is a fool for releasing this thing at this price with no software roadmap to speak of.
 
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I'm just gonna repost what I already said in an identical thread that someone else made like a week ago, lol:
Drizzlehell said:
GT7 is amazing with the racing wheel. It is the best VR racing game right now, period.

RE Village is fucking great.

Horizon is okay. Visually stunning and I liked the high level of interactivity and realistic physics, which isn't as common in VR as you'd think. But the game itself is just okay, I guess. I dunno, there's a shitload of climbing in it and it was getting kinda tiresome during longer sessions.

No Man's Sky was actually better on PC, on PS5 it was really blurry the last time I played it.

Star Wars was okay, nothing really special compared to Quest 2 version, just with better graphics.

That's all I played so far. None of the other games seemed that inticing to me so far, especially since most of them are also on PC or Quest where I already played them. For those games that I played on Quest but are available on PSVR 2, I would recommend Walking Dead, Pistol Whip, Beat Saber, After The Fall, Drums Rock, and Kayak VR.

Oh, and there's also Resident Evil 4 VR coming, that's gonna be fucking sick. Some of the recently announced shooters also look pretty tight.

Overall, there's quite a lot of games for it that are worth playing so yeah, definitely go for it OP if you have that option. Although if you have the option to get a PC VR setup then I'd still recommend going with that, either Quest 2 or Quest 3, but only because it offers a heck of a lot more options compared to PSVR 2. But if console VR is your only option then PSVR 2 is still great.
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Reallink said:
PC-VR development (where PSVR got the overwhelming majority of its games) has been dead for several years now and Sony clearly has no interest in funding enough stuff to make PSVR2 worth its $550 buy-in (which is significantly higher than the console itself). Should the Vision Pro, Quest 3, and Valve Deckard somehow lead to a miraculous resurgence in VR development, PSVR2 will be several hundred dollars cheaper by then so no reason not to wait. Jim Ryan is a fool for releasing this thing at this price with no software roadmap to speak of.
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You don't know what you're talking about, my friend.
 
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If you already own a PS5 and have the disposable cash... ABSOLUTELY !!

I took a leap of faith - going in blind, never having tried VR before throughout my 35+ years as an active gamer.. and that breathtaking NEW ´Sense of Wonder´ I had with games like HORIZON, GT7 and RED MATTER2 alone, made the entire investment worthwhile for me... and I´ve yet to play... erm EXPERIENCE RE Village + Saints&Sinners :messenger_smiling_hearts: so thats already an ´added bonus´ in my book...:messenger_sunglasses:
 
I guess if you want to play GT7 in VR (which is really the only PSVR2 title you could sink countless hours into) then go for it. Otherwise maybe hold off unless you have a lot of disposable income.
 
I really loved PSVR1 but still waiting for that one killer app to invest in the new one. Half-life Alyx or new Astrobot and I'm there.
 
Yes, but be aware that whilst launch had quite a variety of games, there hasn't been a good flow of games since then in my opinion and the ones I do want to play (namely Firewall) have no release date other than 2023 which is annoying.

I played through RE8, a bunch of Demeo, some GT7 and Pavlov but haven't really used it in a couple of months because there's nothing else I want to play that's out.

I'd say hold fire unless you can name a few games that you really want to play right now.
 
If it's your first headset and you'll play GT7 and RE Village, 100% yes, there's like 100 other games already which 10-20 you'll find interesting in VR even if you don't think they look good, and that number gets higher every month.

Lucifers Beard said:
Yes, but be aware that whilst launch had quite a variety of games, there hasn't been a good flow of games since then in my opinion and the ones I do want to play (namely Firewall) have no release date other than 2023 which is annoying.

I played through RE8, a bunch of Demeo, some GT7 and Pavlov but haven't really used it in a couple of months because there's nothing else I want to play that's out.

I'd say hold fire unless you can name a few games that you really want to play right now.
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If anything the pace of games releasing has seemed to have picked up. And some pretty notable ones like Red Matter 2 (best looking game on the system) and Walkabout Mini Golf and Hubris all just dropped or released a month ago or so. I dunno, if you are open to more than AAA games and it's your first headset I don't think you can keep up with the releases too easily if you actively play GT7 (30-60 mins / day or session) and Synth Riders or Beat Saber (same 30-60 mins) plus regular VR games too (60+ mins). That's pretty much an easy 2-4 hours a session that would keep you going for years.
 
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My brilliant wife treated me to PSVR2 for my birthday.
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Massive upgrade over psvr1. Resolution is razor sharp.

GT7 is revolutionary but a touch too soft on image quality. Driving at night with the rain coming down is something you have to experience. Wow. Hope they can sharpen the image up a bit in the future.

Saints and sinners is really sharp now and they've updated the gfx.

Resi Village is absolutely stunning and play's wonderfully. The cut scenes are a little jarring but these can be skipped.

Pavlov is great in SP. Not tried multi yet as I'd suck at it until I've acclimatised.

That's all I've tried for now, but the whole experience is a massive leap forwards over the 1st headset.

Worth the price? Yes 100%!
I just hope that previous games like Astro bot are released and far better support this time from devs. I badly want to see Bioshock, Killzone, SoC and The Last Guardian this time around.
 
I love RE Village, GT7. Pavlov is fine but does not have any character progression and unlocks like COD. It's more like Counter Strike, which is fun too!

I love Beat Sabre but yeah it's old by now. I bought Drum Rock or something and it sucks. I'm waiting for huge sales to buy game because they're too expensive for my budget.

Ah yeah, I also have an MMO it's called Zenith. It's good tbh but it's also laggy. Poor ass developers who can't optimise their damn server, the net code is shit.
 
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For me it has not quite been worth it. I have a few games, but besides RE7 and Gran Turismo there isnt much i care for.

I bought Kayak around launch and played all of about 15 mins. Les Mills is a decent, if not extremely bare bones workout game. Some stuff im just not willing to plump down $40 for without knowing the quality and replayability, i.e. Creed.

Honestly, needs more RE quality games. Sadly, VR2 is an afterthough for most developers and even Sony from what we can tell. They need to expand its reach....the damn thing should at least have Netflix and Hulu VR.

Unfortunately, it's probably going to take Apple to punch a hole in Sony's ass to wake them up.

Edit: Fixed some of the attrocious grammar and spelling.
 
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aclar00 said:
For me it has not quite been worth it. I have a few games, but besides RE7 and Gran Turismo there isnt much i car for.

I bought Kayak around launch and played all of 15 mins. Les Mills is a decent if not extremely bare bones workout game. Some stuff im just not will to plump $40 down for without know the quality and replayability, i.e. Creed.

Honestly, needs more RE quality games. Sadly, VR2 is an afterthough for most developers and even Sony from what we can tell. They need to expands its reach....the damn thing should at least have Netflix and Hulu VR.

Unfortunately its probably going to take Apple to punch a hole in Sony's ass to wake them up.
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It's sad because it was expensive for all of us who bought the thing, accepting its nit retro compatible and has a wire. It's a lit of sacrifice and Sony, once again, let their most loyal customers unsatisfied. It's an habit by now.
 
aclar00 said:
For me it has not quite been worth it. I have a few games, but besides RE7 and Gran Turismo there isnt much i car for.

I bought Kayak around launch and played all of 15 mins. Les Mills is a decent if not extremely bare bones workout game. Some stuff im just not will to plump $40 down for without know the quality and replayability, i.e. Creed.

Honestly, needs more RE quality games. Sadly, VR2 is an afterthough for most developers and even Sony from what we can tell. They need to expands its reach....the damn thing should at least have Netflix and Hulu VR.

Unfortunately its probably going to take Apple to punch a hole in Sony's ass to wake them up.
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Have to agree here. really hoping firewall is good.
 
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