According to a report in Bloomberg News, it seems that Sony is seeking to massively ramp up gross sales of its next-generation PlayStation VR headset over its first iteration in 2016. The firm is reportedly seeking to launch the platform with over 2 million headsets readily available, and manufacturing is already “effectively underway.” 

Supply chain points which have plagued electronics producers throughout the globe are additionally reportedly not impacting the manufacturing of this new headset. Bloomberg’s Takashi Mochizuki can also be reporting that Sony plans to massively develop the provision of PlayStation 5 consoles across the similar time interval because the PSVR2 launch. 

That would make it extra logistically doable to bundle the 2 gadgets and drive extra gross sales of the already bestselling console.

Sony has nonetheless but to publicly reveal a precise launch date for the PSVR2 (although any later than April would begin to put “early 2023” into query). It’s additionally but to share a worth for the system. The first PlayStation VR price $299 at launch in 2016, Sony might have to account for pandemic-driven inflation when it launches its successor subsequent yr.

Will Sony promote that many PSVR2 headsets?

Is there good purpose to for Sony to be optimistic about PSVR 2 gross sales? Maybe. Bloomberg pulled information on gross sales of the Meta Quest 2 from market intelligence company IDC exhibiting that the headset previously generally known as the Oculus Quest 2 offered over 2.8 million models in its first quarter.

It’s a helpful comparability, however the gross sales efficiency of Meta’s VR headsets aren’t straight corresponding to Sony’s. A Meta Quest 2 will quickly price as a lot as a PlayStation 5, nevertheless it’s a standalone system that is not tethered to any consoles. Getting a PSVR2 up and working will price more cash and lock gamers to their residing rooms.

On the opposite hand, Sony’s VR headset will probably be one of many main rivals for the Quest 2, and can profit from being an add-on for current PlayStation 5 homeowners (there’s a minimum of 22 million of them by now). There’s additionally doubtless an viewers of digital actuality shoppers who will buy a consumer-grade system not affiliated with the corporate previously generally known as Facebook.

What different metrics will Sony be launching when the PSVR2 launches? Well it’ll in all probability need to beat the $2 million in content material gross sales from the Quest’s first two weeks in the marketplace in 2019, and when the vacations roll round in 2023, it will need to beat the $5 million in income that Meta raked in from the Oculus Store in that point.