PSVR Hype?

So SW is flooded with threads about Scorpio and Sony fans are loling /bashing Xbox fans hyping a console that's over a year out, which is understandable.

So where is the PSVR hype? It's scheduled to release in two weeks but I see no Sony fans talking about it. Are cows afraid to hype Sony's next big thing?

AAAE

It will happen. No need to be concerned.

I'll hype PSVR when it's at $200 and affordable... or after I've tried it. Whichever comes first.

So is GS going to review it as an overall package or just the games?

It's not good enough to hype. Maybe when they make a PSVR 2.0

Sony is decent so they'll wait to see if it actually works to hype it and recommend it. Is not like MS and lems that hyped Kinect up and down and duped all lems to buy that useless piece of crap. Thank you Sony. TLHBO.

What VR hype? There wasn't a Oculus Rift, HTC Hive or any VR device hype so why even asking this question as to why there's no PSVR?

I hype it a 9 just for Summer Lesson alone.

maybe next year, tho might get vive instead, depends on available content then

Once people try it out they will be in love with it. I pre-ordered the 500 dollar bundle when it was announced then it sold out like 30 minutes later. I didn't even get to try it until a week ago, and I was completely blown away by it. We're already building a racing rig for Drive Club.

People really have to try it to see how good it is honestly.

at $400 this thing will bomb harder then PS Move

I did try it and was very underwhelmed. Enough so I decided to pass on it for now

I don't get why people are demanding it to be <$200 - do you have any idea how hard a sub-200 headset would suck? Remember this is a replacement for a monitor or TV that not only serves as a display but needs to track your motion with some semblance of accuracy. You cannot get a decent TV for $200, and you can secure a passable 1080p monitor for that price. Could someone build a <$200 VR setup? Maybe. But it wouldn't be worth owning. And don't reference Gear VR - it's a shell for the actual VR device which is your cell phone

@davillain-: what? There was plenty of rift and vive hype.

I find it kinda strange that you are trying to say that the PS brand is bringing out a new gaming peripheral that provides a new type of gaming experience for the existing PS4 and it's something that's isn't hype worthy.

I'm hoping for great sales numbers. I'm not buying it, but I want all of you to because it might move my SNE stock price up.

VR is not where it's at yet for me.

Got forbids your framerate dips, it's a really hard technology to pull of at the moment.

And to be quite honest, who has pulled off a full fledged VR experience ? not just a tech demo that is fun for short whiles ?

What demos did you play?

@dakur: So basically cows are scared as usual. Gotcha.

Battlezone

Should have tried EVE: Valkyrie.

Not really interested. I'm getting a Pro and this time of year is stacked with games, so I'll skip and let them work out the kinks.

I'm doing the same. What kind of rig are you building? I'm doing the PVC one from inside sim racing by, I think Scorpio8. The frame went together really well, hopefully I'll have it painted and assembled this weekend...

I don't care for space flying shooters. I have a similar game Eve gunjack on my gear and don't care for it either. But regardless of if a game is bad or not, the quality of the PSRV just wasn't good. Not on a base PS4 at least, maybe on the Pro it'll be good, but I don't have any interest in a Pro.

I want to get it but I don't feel like spending money on a system with literally no game I wish to play. Maybe with Pro that will happen, that is if Sony drops the silly idea of all games being forced to work on both PS4s.

this is just sony's kinect...or sonys wii....

trying to get the next big gimmick before nintendo and xbox beat them to it....

they don't want another ps3 gen on their hands.

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how well will it do?

idk guess the marketing ...price...and functionality will decide.

personally i predict a flop....maybe kinect type sales or less.

@KBFloYd: Kinect sold over 30 million units on the 360.

I must've miss those hype threads for some reasons. I think the better question is, does PSVR have a killer app VR game now? The only VR game I can think of that's a killer app is Rigs Mechanized Combat League and I'll admit, it looks fun but I wouldn't pay VR that's on a console. I'm sorry but I'm not crazy to spend money on a VR console and if I really want to get into VR (and I will next year) I'll buy HTC Hive.

This shit is selling out like crack. Target had them up for preorder today and they were gone in minutes before I could preorder mine.

There's plenty of hype for it. Just because people aren't running around making threads for it every 5 minutes doesn't mean people don't want it.

ok so thats what it will sell....or less than that.

but not more.

btw....do you consider 30million a success?

seems pretty successful but not like the wii.

@quadknight: lmao the 5 sold out

this shit is gonna flop sooooo hard, can't wait

Next Gen Kinect!

@KBFloYd: Honestly, I think that is a great question. I honestly think that if it had to stand alone as a peripheral and a platform on its own the way the Kinect did, then it would only be somewhat successful.

Cows who think the Kinect was nightmare fuel don't see the full picture. After all, what ultimately killed the Kinects future was stuffing one in every box with an expensive launch console. Early adopter/core gamers didnt want that shit and it showed.

However, with PSVR, not only is it in the same position as an optional peripheral but it is an optional peripheral being catapaulted in terms of software by technology and software that exists in another space (Oculus and Vive). So, app developers and game developers that already have products in that space are going to be right there to support the PSVR as well. I would not underestimate this advantage, because the day that Sony has 30 million PSVR users is the day they can go to the table with companies like the NFL or UEFA and get a serious return on content.

Even at 10 or 20 million VR users, a domino effect will begin where content sells peripherals instead of the other way around. When it starts selling on content rather than novelty, all bets are off.

Except this will actually benefit some games people already like to play, like driving and flying games, instead of being relegated to just party games and the ilk. Not that I think it will go far beyond niche with the price (even more once you start looking into driving rigs) and the very small number that would actually devote a room to it.

Personally, I've been wanting a VR headset for driving/flying games for a very long time (since they first started making head mounted displays).

I finally got to try it out today for the first time.

It was great, so I ordered myself the HTC Vive.

the wii had party games and sports games(wii sports)..shooting lightgun games...dance games..excercise..also driving games like mario kart were terrific with a wii wheel for letting everyone play like its a steering wheel.

that's why it was so successful.

I have a Vive, let me tell you about VR considering that the PSVR will have less FOV and lower resolution. It seems epic at first, especially how it can make you feel and trick your brain...BUT, after a while you get really used to it and believe it or not, it's kinda meh. It's not as crisp as you're used to on your monitors or HD TV's, I know on PSVR, the jaggies are pretty bad and you'll notice the flaws a lot more once you get past the wow factor.

I would wait for the game library...to see where it's going because Vive's library is growing...slowly and it sucks. There's no AA games, even A games Imo yet and none of the big titles to release next year are even touting VR compatibility so it's possible Sony's may end up the same way after the first wave of games pass by.

You should have tried it a few more times, like give it about 8hrs worth of gameplay and you may regret the Vive after a while. I mean it's still cool n all ...if it had some really good games and not the rubbish that seems cool but isn't. The issue mainly is after you get used to it, it's not really the same as that first time experience.

Now, I tend to get annoyed with it more than overlook it like I did at first. I'm sure the PSVR is way more comfortable than Vive though, I honestly think I'd rather go that route than Vive just because of it's annoyances and you're really limited to only VR games because trying to play other games on it isn't a seamless, comfortable experience like it is on your TV

lol *high five*

0 hype. I will never buy a vr set.

The fact the PSVR needs to be attached to a processor unit and then you attach that processor unit to your PS4 shows you that the PS4 is still not powerful enough to give you the best VR experience. This is an entry level product but not an entry level price. You're going to need the PlayStation Kinect camera and glowing doggles controllers too, which make that price even higher. I think the price is not casual enough for casuals and the weak specs isn't powerful enough for hardcore. You're better off spending time at a retail store and try it out there for free, that's as good as it gets.

Zero, I hope it flops and they discontinue it within 1 year.

How many Sony peripherals have been successful?

That's why it has no hype.

8/10

I'm hyped for the idiots who will put youtube videos of themselves falling over all the furniture in their houses :P

That disappeared after the Scorpio announcement, everybody was on the edge of their seats waiting to see what Sony was going to do regarding the Neo/Pro. And, all the talk since has been a mix bag of in a reception spectrum of extreme negative reactions to just mild excitement. Also consider that all of Sony's positive buzz the last three years has been mostly external. It's positive news articles for the PS4 from gaming websites and gaming personalities and the community of gamers that much of Sony's success with the PS4 has just been coasting with all that momentum. Well, I'd say that's all been diminishing as gamers grow increasingly frustrated with the delays of long awaited exclusives for PS4 that are revealed way too early. They have to contend with strong positive reception of the Xbox One S with the 4K abilities, inclusion of a UHD blu-ray player, and the competitive pricing. Then Sony revealed the Neo/Pro, and well, it wasn't pretty. All kinds of hate has been catching on around that. The triple cheeseburger / Big Mac look of it. The non-native 4K abilities; "4Kinda". No UHD 4K blu-ray player. No optical support. No improvement to CPU meaning that any CPU limitations that cause performance drops on vanilla PS4 also appear on PS4 Pro. Then they're releasing a slim PS4 that's every bit as ugly as the vanilla PS4, and promising that non-Pro PS4s will get quasi-HDR support even though no streaming service is planning to offer HDR support to any non-4K streaming devices, no third party publishers/developers beyond those behind The Witness plan on implementing HDR support for past titles. It really is shaping up to be a worthless system settings menu option on vanilla PS4s. And, this big initiative with the Slim doesn't help since many who want a PS4 are just going to hold out for a Pro. The year is ending off on a soft note, the reaction to those with early access to The Last Guardian has been overwhelmingly negative. Games people wanted are pushed back at least another year. The whole PS4 console exclusive No Man's Sky has stirred one of the biggest backlashes in gaming since Aliens: Colonial Marines. Meanwhile, on MS's end, they're gaining positive press coverage for the XB1S, their competitive pricing and awesome bundles and retail specials. There's been lots of buzz about sales. Excitement is mounting for exclusives like Gears of War 4 and Forza Horizon 3 and Dead Rising 4. They're gaining traction on their PC-XB1 play anywhere initiative. Now, no way is MS coming back in any way to take more market share as Sony has a sizeable lead, but let's not act like the situation hasn't severely impacted Sony's momentum going forward.

And you might be asking - this has nothing to with PSVR, why is he talking about this? EXACTLY! This has been the focus regarding Sony and the PS4 with the gaming community and gaming press the last few months. This will be the talk going forward the next couple months as the PS4 Pro prepares to launch. All eyes are elsewhere with regard to the PSVR.

Sony should have never tried to push the PS4 Neo/Pro the same year as releasing the PSVR. Now with the Slim and Pro and whatnot, they have way too much to juggle. All the talk about PS4 Pro isn't about how much better PSVR games might run with the performance boost, it's about going out and buying a 4K UHD TV and how "don't settle for anything under 65 inches" and "get a UHDTV with real HDR-10 and not quasi-HDR". In what world are consumers going to doll out another $500+ for PSVR, camera, Move controllers, and games, after spending a $400 on a PS4 Pro, another several hundred to a couple thousand dollars on a modern UHD 4K TV with HDR support? How they expect to accomplish that when there's almost no buzz to push forward the PSVR initiative?

And, not even knocking on PSVR itself, on the contrary, though I'm still rather in the dark on it, many who've got hands on with it have very good things to say about it. But, it's just not getting the attention it deserves, there's too much distraction elsewhere. Between the Slim, Pro, Scorpio, loads of bad press, the PSVR has become an afterthought in nearly every corner of the gaming community. Where's the buzz people are asking; what buzz? PSVR has become Sony's infant child they left out in their sun-baked car on a 100 degree afternoon to die. It's gonna take a miracle at this point for it to get any traction. So unless it organically just becomes the next Furby or Tickle-Me-Elmo sensation over the holidays, I'd say it's on track for a very lackluster debut.

My hype, 2/10 at best. And (again), that's not to knock it for what it is, there's just too many external factors to take into account that are keeping it from reaching its market potential.

Best Buy is doing a midnight launch for it across the country.

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Find the store nearest you and plan accordingly.

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I'm hyped for it but most on this board don't want to see anything VR related. Tried the Oculus and PS and I have to say I enjoyed the PS headset more and it has more games and actually interesting coming up with it. So yes I will gladly buy it

More excited for Thumper, which isnt exclusively a VR game, but has PSVR support.