Sony: Sony sells greater than half 1,000,000 PS VR 2 models in below two months – Instances of India

Sony launched the successor to the PlayStation VR headset in February. The PS VR 2 went on sale in April. Initially, Sony was promoting its mixed-reality headset solely from its web site. Now, the PS VR2 headset can also be accessible at retailers however continues to be not accessible in India. The Japanese tech firm has now shared a report that particulars how its newest headset carried out within the markets during which it’s accessible.
The PS VR2 appears to have higher demand than its predecessor throughout the few weeks it grew to become accessible. Throughout a enterprise presentation, Sony revealed it has bought practically 600,000 PS VR2 models inside its first six weeks of availability. To check, the gross sales of the most recent headset are 8% greater than its predecessor’s gross sales throughout the similar time window.
Sony shares its plans for the approaching years
Other than sharing the PS VR2 sale numbers, Sony has additionally shared some particulars about its plans for the approaching years. Over the subsequent few years., the corporate is planning to place extra funding into creating new franchises for the PlayStation, the report notes
By the fiscal yr 2025, Sony is aiming for a 50-50 cut up of PlayStation Studios investments between outdated and new IPs. The corporate additionally shared a graph to indicate that it has primarily been specializing in well-liked franchises for the console for the previous few years. This contains franchises like God of Warfare and Horizon.
In 2019, Sony put solely 20% of its investments into the event of latest properties. For the fiscal yr 2023, the corporate is planning to proceed its give attention to present IPs. Nevertheless, Sony has additionally talked about that 40% of its PlayStation Studios investments shall be directed in direction of new franchises.
Other than this, Sony can also be planning to place more cash into its stay providers titles like Future 2 and MLB: The Present. The corporate is anticipating to place 60% of its PS5 investments in direction of stay providers titles and 40% in direction of conventional video games by fiscal yr 2025.
Furthermore, Sony additionally expects gross sales from add-on or downloadable content material to maintain growing within the coming days. The corporate has additionally revealed that PS5 could overtake PS4 on all key metrics very quickly.
Sony has predicted that PS5 would have extra month-to-month lively customers enjoying extra hours on the most recent console by February 2024. The corporate additionally solved its provide chain disaster to launch extra consoles and even bought extra PS5 models than it predicted for the fiscal yr 2022.