Sony is reportedly pausing PSVR2 production to clear excess inventory

Sony’s PlayStation VR2. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

After producing successful excess of 2 cardinal units of its latest virtual world headset, Bloomberg is reporting that Sony is hitting intermission connected accumulation to effort and displacement its unsold inventory. The PlayStation VR2 launched past February for $549 arsenic an accessory for the PlayStation 5, but IDC information suggests that shipments person declined each 4th since.

Bloomberg suggests that the occupation is simply a deficiency of contented for the headset. The PSVR2 is compatible with a fistful of AAA games including Horizon Call of the Mountain, Gran Turismo 7, and entries successful the Resident Evil series, arsenic good arsenic a scope of smaller titles. But, astatine $549, the headset costs much than the PS5 itself, truthful expectations are high. Bloomberg notes that Meta and Apple person faced akin contented challenges with their ain headsets.

As good arsenic pausing accumulation connected the headset, Sony’s caller layoffs impacted teams that person worked connected VR titles. It closed its London Studio and the developer down Horizon Call of the Mountain, Firesprite studio, was besides impacted. In total, the layoffs are expected to impact astir 900 Sony employees, oregon 8 percent of its wide headcount.

In an effort to summation the magnitude of contented disposable for its headset, Sony precocious announced that it’s testing PC support, offering “the quality for PS VR2 players to entree further games connected PC.” It’s presently unclear however wide the headset’s enactment for PC titles mightiness be, but enactment is planned for aboriginal this year.