Three things they’re doing wrong- 1. Refusing to communicate with ANYONE 2. Refusing to listen to customers 3. Not advertising This is an extraordinarily bizarre way to run a business/ brand

I wish sony would spend some money to get some hybrid AAA games like gt7 and the resident evil games. I dont like horror games, so it sucks only having that as an option. Whats stopping them from getting something like skyrim, fallout, or san andreas on vr? That would be a big reason for many to pick one up.

Just got my psvr2 headset today, im not worried. There is still plenty to play and look forward to.

As a gamer, we always want more. future releases will take care of themselves. I love my psvr2. We have a smaller library than quest, but we have the best games, and they're so much more immersive than playing with a quest3. I own both. I barely use my quest3. Future is bright for psvr2 have faith. Jammy, keep up the positive vibes, my friend. Your channel is awesome 👌 👏 👍.

Sony is neither abandoning the PSVR2 nor pushing on it. You're right that decisions about VR support for Astrobot would have been made long before now. However, I think that's likely to mean they may have started VR support for it and then cancelled it sometime back. Sony's VR initiative has been and continues to be cautious and tentative. They appear to be just reacting to whatever results they get in sales. If it starts taking off, they'll put more into it. If not, they'll put less. And that includes forecasting. I think Sony was aware that the PSVR2 was arriving at an awkward moment where the industry was moving to pancake lenses, and they were showing up with old fresnel. They likely knew their hardware wasn't going to be killer, so they just went for their soft launch approach. And it's been lukewarm like that through the whole run so far. You're right to point out the games and support Sony has, in fact, put out for the PSVR2, but at the same time I think it's fairly obvious that this is measured, and Sony could be pushing a lot harder if they wanted to. People want to say either Sony is fully behind it or Sony is abandoning it completely. But in reality, Sony has an analog dial that they're adjusting up and down. They're clearly not looking to lead the charge, but they're also not leaving either. They're waiting for the right time and right conditions before they will push with one of PSVR2's successors. In the meantime, PSVR2 is keeping it warm, building up their VR game library and experience, and preparing the way.

I Love my PSVR2 😁😎

THEY JUST ADDED BOTH THE SAINTS AND SINNERS GAMES AND WALKABOUT MINI GOLF TO PSPLUS!!!

Ok so there's the confirmation i needed. They answered officially in a Q&A on the website? Then ok. No more pointless hoping

Exactly agree 100 percent we’ve got plenty of games completed, in the works, and recently announced

I appreciate your perspective and in many ways agree with your ideas about comparing PSVR1 and PSVR2 development stages. Also it's worth noting that I own or owned about 10 different headsets at different times from PSVR1/2 to Steam sets like HP Reverb G2, Varjo Aero and most recently Meta Quest 3. So yes, I have a problem but I also am a big supporter of VR and Sony. Tbh I bought the PS5 bc I gambled that there would eventually be a PSVR2 and was so happy when it was finally announced. Unfortunately I feel like they missed an opportunity when they didn't support older PSVR1 games, some which are irreplaceable, Squadrons (no longer supported), Firewall (studio shut down and sequal was not the same), Astrobot (no planned VR sequal), Everything's Golf (sequal now a meta exclusive), Ace Combat (???) Astrobot news was a huge blow for anyone who purchased the headset. I get that financially, it might not have been worth it to Sony, but them alluding to that tells a lot of us and those on the fence that PSVR2 might not be financially worth it. It's kind of like buying Nintendo products and hearing no Mario games or Zelda games will be developed, how could I take it seriously? No one else is going to make Mario or Zelda games for other platforms so we'd be stuck. Had they allowed for a way to play PSVR1 games, at least we could say we have Astrobot 1 or Farpoint or the old Firewall and a Golf game to play. Just my opinion. To be fair, I didn't return my bc I love playing GT7 but I don't play it more than SteamVR or Meta Quest 3.

Thanks for the great content, I really appreciate it!

I think the PSVR2 is a brilliant bit of kit, and I true love my headset.

I think psvr2 is coming along nicely. Big games with nice stories. By the time 5 years comes to pass the library will be amazing. The slow and steady game. They have made an amazing bit of kit and devs are putting some bangers on it. I play mine every day and it takes me into some magical worlds. Thank you for your always positive outlook on psvr2

bring on that adapter. great video.

There are so many great PSVR1 games that need to be ported over. Astrobot, Iron Man, Blood and Truth, and many others. I’m disappointed as I bought my PSVR2 day one, and lack of true Sony game support is non existent

Just bought my PSVR2 this week. Got a full year of Netflix premium. And $100 off the headset. Plus June 2024 ps plus gave me many games. I’m set. Not going to lie. I was considering returning it because it gave me bad motion sickness for 3 days. But after a week. I’m able to handle 1 hr sessions.

Any news on the sense controllers being sold separately ?

Just a minor correction, Jammy: You list Astrobot's two appearances on PSVR1 as Astro's Playroom and Rescue Mission. Astro's Playroom was, of course, a flat game only on PS5. You meant to say The Playroom VR, which had a mini-game entitled 'Robot Rescue', a short precursor for what would eventually be developed into Astrobot: Rescue Mission.

There are so many amazing games on pc vr that so many people want to play. I get that some titles don’t want to make their games accessible to the psvr like rec room for example. Their limiting the potential of the PSVR2 just from the limited amount of games that they offer. I would play al the time if they added even a few popular games such as: 1. Bone labs 2. Gorilla tag 3. Vrchat 4. Ghost of tabor (they will add it later in 2024) 5. Half life: Alyx 6. Rec room (The creators of rec room don’t know if it’s worth it to allow psvr2 players to play, due to the small amount of psvr2 players) But just these games will bring a lot of people to using the PSVR2. But to be honest I think it’s better to buy the meta quest 3, you can a lot more games without a PC.

I prefer the focus on the positive coverage your channel normal does. I want to see game reviews, upcoming game previews, etc.

Sony had the option to tell us at any point in the last 5 years that they had no plans for a VR Astro Bot in the near future. Instead they let us speculate constantly and then dropped this news on us. I think there was a middle ground they could have struck between keeping their cards close to their chest and revealing everything, and considering everyone knew another Astro was coming it would have been nice if they'd managed our expectations a bit more e.g. "We have no first party games in the pipeling for PSVR2 in 2024."

Will prob get abouy 4 or 5 years amazing years out of it. Gt7, res 8, cotm and res4 worth the price alone completed all of tthem multiple times ( apart from gt7 but 100 plus hours in) best console i ever owned.

Hopefully they still give us the adapter to make PSVR a pcvr headset. We need an affordable Hp reverb g2 alternative

I'm sure we haven't seen the last of Astro Bot in VR. I just think hybrid didn't work out because in this case it there would have been too much tradeoff for the flat game mechanics and they wanted to maximize their success for this broader PS5 market first. Makes sense for them business wise to prioritize the regular PS5 crowd because of all the love they got for Playroom and the potential revenue there. Maybe they thought adding hybrid wouldn't have done Astro VR justice. After all what kind of Astro VR game would it be if they didn't fully integrate the VR controllers somehow with full VR AF interactions? Team Asobi seem to be perfectionists with how they implement their tech. To do it right there would need to be 2 different games. On that note, who says they can't make another game for VR? Especially if they make mad bank with the flat version. There's still hope for an Astro VR independent of this release. Similar to how Skyrim VR is a separate game altogether, they could make Astro Bot VR using the same assets and levels but making it work better for VR.

Does anyone remember Tourist trophy on PS 2? It was like Gran Turismo but with motorcycles,that would be awesome on VR

Well said.. i am for all vr to gain momentum

Looks like Death Relives is coming, may be a PSVR2 exclusive. It's releasing on PS4/PS5 and their tweet yesterday referred to themselves as a "Playstation Partner" studio. Trailer looks 🔥 Edit: Not so sure it's exclusive. One of their tweets does say oculus, but nothing further.

They should give us a descent spacesim ... 🤷🏻‍♂️

Considering UEVR easily converts games to VR how much would it realistically take sony to lol I think it's not really a financial decision just a decision not to especially for a game like astro where it's just a camera following a character.

PSVR2 was in development for a very long time. Imagine where it would be today had Sony done 3 things at launch. Ported a remastered Rescue Mission. Paid Valve for a HL Alyx port. And finally, teased Rescue Mission 2.

For now, I'd much rather have a massive astrobot game that might get VR support later than a small sequel to rescue mission that not many will buy. Can't wait to play the new astrobot game in September and hope it sells really well and we see VR support later and hopefully we see a rescue mission sequel later! We will see.

I love my psvr2. I've bought so many games that i haven’t even got around to playing them all yet!

I'm still very optimistic about a VR mode for this title. If anything (for example) when GT7 was announced, they did not announce the VR component until it was closer to its release date, so it would be more of a marketing strategy from Sony's angle. Astro Bot is nowhere near as popular as Mario/Luigi and Sonic the Hedgehog in terms of being a mascot in my opinion as they have just solely relied on popular franchises to carry the generations of consoles throughout the decades. If Astro Bot had more of a presence in other games similar to what Nintendo does with Mario with multiple titles yearly, then they should have remastered the original Astro Bot for the PSVR2 also.

220+ games already, can’t wait for the next year

Where are the spare controllers???

Max musturd can't come soon enough for me Bye astro it was a sweet ride

There is no scenario, where a company like sony would abandon an investment like the psvr2.

I'm good with the amount of VR games. I've got plenty to play. A really nice variety of games have been released. There's GT7 & No Man's Sky that are basically games that can be played forever. I feel that indie developers are killing it more than Sony.

Man I haven't used mine for months

Is there a thing as too much information? If we don't hear or see anything, then we start to worry.

The problem is simple: Meta Quest is outdoing Sony across the board with VR and augmented reality games/apps, video/3D apps, easy PC wireless connection, productivity tools, and more and more. Sony can't keep up without a killer apps as good as or superior than HL Alyx, and that is NOT going to happen. Plus, their focus on live services has been a mess, as seen with their mishandling of FW Ultra and COTM.

Sorry to burst your bubble. I love my psvr2 but sony is giving very poor support on its headset. Astrobots 2 not being in vr says it all. Sony has all but abandoned the headset. 3rd parties are keeping it on oxegen.

Without data, its impossible to draw conclusions about PSVR2's health -- impossible. What _can_ be seen are releases (which are healthy at the moment) and *marketing.* I believe people are drawing conclusions based the level of communication from Sony. Nothing more.

Horizon call of the mountain remain the only aaa vr native and playstation esclusive game

I only haven't upgraded from psvr 1 because inflation has destroyed my income. I simply can't justify the cost.

It's anecdotal evidence, but I've noticed the majority of posts crapping on PSVR2 on Twitter, are from anti-Sony/Xbox stan accounts. These kinds of posts remind me why I don't use Twitter much anymore.

I bought my PS5 only for Horizon and God of War. If Sony brings two more AAA VR games like GT 7, I definitely am going to buy VR2. Sadly, There is GT7 so far that is attractive to me. Not worth it.

Bonelabs is on Meta. Not PSVR2 wtf is happening

Support?... as soon as they launched PSVR2 they left the product out in the cold. They have not supported it at, no advertising, no more talk of flat to VR,, and the PC link is a last ditch effort to sell off the hardware... it's like the had give up before they even gave it a chance. It's a shame because the hardware is really good. But rigth now meta is carrying the VR industry alone on their back.

Yes, 100% yes! Focus on players enjoying things that you do, and ignore the ones telling you not too because you're don't share their perspectives. It's ok and natural, to have preferences. But it's NOT ok to be gaslit into second-guessing a personal preference because you don't happen to share another's preferences. This is all to common in gaming, but especially with VR and PSVR2 specifically. This isn't just wrong, it's narcissistic behaviour, and an extremely unhealthy influence -- I suggest that anybody unsubscribe or block these sources of information.

The PSVR2 has got enough games to keep me going for a couple of years, i wish they'd slow down on the releases, i cant keep up, im still half way through Genotype, some people just got too much time on their hands.

I wonder if this game development was going on before developers knew there was even going to be a p's vr2, LOL Sony right hand not knowing what the left hand was doing, terrible in company communication and leadership.

The point of view is identical to the PSVR1 so, it wouldn’t surprise me if Astrobot PSVR2 is a demo for PS5 Pro. I’m not assuming that’s the case, but it wouldn’t surprise me. Behemoth, Aliens and Death Relive are top of Class VR games most likely getting significant resources from Sony.

Sony is done with the headset thats why it has pcvr compatibility, i just hope its last true gsme is re9 at launch

That last point is the most important. True crabs in a bucket mentality. People that play flat games don’t give a fuck what kind of games, or lack thereof, is on VR. But I’m sure they are laughing at the super small community arguing about why their 3 and half hour game is better than the other person’s. The community is still too small to be doing all the nonsense that console has been doing for generations. The audience, games, and history just isn’t there for us to be having “headset wars”. Any W for VR in this stage is a W for us all and that’s why I choose not to participate in those goofy debates and just focus on what we are getting and spreading the joy of it to whoever will listen

Thanks for being the voice of reason. Everyone is losing their minds over here

Sucks wish there o was

The copium is strong in this video

bro just let us use it on PC who cares about sony's support

2:05 Dont agree. Psvr1 released 2016 and was basically dead in 2020 with the launch of the ps5. Thats just 4 years of support. Quest 2 will be supported ~4 years as well. Skyrim on psvr came a year after launch.

Psvr 2 is awful. I love Sony and had the psvr 2 on launch day. Apart from a couple of games, it was a huge letdown. So much so that I sold mine recently. When it comes to VR, Meta at the ones who know how to market and push VR. The quest 3 standalone is great. So many games to choose from, and it even better with a VR ready pc.

lol. Sony. Plan. Psvr2. 😂

I dislike any Astro Bot video until VR version

More smoking of copium

😂 sony already said go play vr elsewhere not on ps5 when they wrote go play fallout 4 vr and half life alyx on pc because you ain't getting it on ps5 😂😂 so i believe yes Sony doesn't care about psvr2

Skyrim came 13 months into PSVR 1's lifespan, it wasn't that long of a wait. As for other notable games early in its lifespan, Rush of Blood was a launch game, RE7 came out 3 months in, Farpoint was released 7 months in, and Wipeout got its PSVR patch 17 months in (the equivalent of next month in the PSVR 2 lifespan). And there were other less notable first-party games in that time, like VR Worlds, RIGS, and Driveclub. Sorry man, this just comes across as a lot of cope. There's no indication Sony is working on anything for PSVR 2, and every indication that they're not. Yes games take longer to make, but if Sony were making PSVR 2 games, they would've been in development years before the hardware launched. Sony already did this with Horizon Call of the Mountain. PSVR 2 would've been well into the prototype phase when Astro Bot started development. They absolutely could've made it hybrid. For context, Rescue mission took 18 months to make for a team of 25 people. Also if Sony gave any shits about PSVR 2, they could've done what Capcom did with RE4 Remake: Announce it for flat, and have a little image at the end saying "VR content also in development." I'm not saying they've abandoned the hardware entirely, but I don't think there's any evidence they're developing anything for it in-house. Astro Bot would've been the easiest and best opportunity for a hybrid game, and they passed on the chance. I think the best we can hope for is that Sony keeps on paying third-parties to port their games to PSVR 2, but I'm skeptical even that'll continue past this year.

IT'S PRONOUNCED "SIN-NAPSE" not "SIGH-NAPSE". Pronounced from the actual voice actors of the game and devs of the game itself.

I can't even find the correct words to describe HOW dead PSVR2 is.

Sony have washed their hands with the platform, they're even going to PC to sell their remaining stock.

This aged poorly 💀