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Road to VR
JANUARY 23, 2024
Judging by sales volume on Amazon, Quest 2 & Quest 3 massively outsold PSVR 2 during the 2023 holiday season. Tracking Quest 2, Quest 3, and PSVR 2 sales volume on Amazon US gives strong evidence that Quest headsets did quite well this holiday season, while PSVR 2 saw concerningly low sales. Overall it’s a concerning trend.
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 1, 2021
Image by Sony). Sony officially states it is going to launch the PSVR 2. PlayStation VR has been the most successful headset until now (if we exclude the crappy mobile viewers), but now it is pretty dated and people were wondering what Sony was going to do. Some people started to think that Sony could have abandoned VR.
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The Ghost Howls
DECEMBER 16, 2024
But other partners like XREAL, Sony, and Lynx are working on new devices compatible with this operating system. This trend is expected to continue in 2025, but there should be a rebound in 2026. According to the company, the headset sales volumes fell by 10% in 2024 to 6.9 million units, down from 7.7 million in 2023.
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 21, 2025
The same negative trends regard the Black Friday sales on Amazon. Counterpoint research states that the global VR market slipped 4% in Q3 2024 when compared to the same quarter in 2023 The former Sony executive Shuhei Yoshida declared in an interview that he is sorry for being wrong about PS VR2.
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 17, 2022
I think it’s impossible to create a healthy competitive space in the XR field for both hardware and software if the trend is this one. And it is a trend that is getting always worse. Image by Sony). While we were all considering a 2022 release as a given, when asked directly about the matter, Sony declined to answer.
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 20, 2021
But hey, let me play this game anyway, so here you are my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 based on the trends and the anticipations that we had at the end of 2020! I expect all these trends to continue in 2021, for a year that will see the growth of the technology on all its sides (software and hardware).
Digital Trends
AUGUST 12, 2021
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