Rumor: PSVR2 Could Be Delayed to 2023
Sony's PSVR 2's design, features, and potential capabilities were only recently announced. Marketed with a push for new properties and experiences like Horizon: Call of the Mountain, Sony looked like it was preparing to hit the ground running with its next-gen VR Headset. However, a tweet from an important figure in the supply chain of VR components suggests that the peripheral may come out much later than first expected.
A tweet from Ross Young, CEO of Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC), recently suggests Sony has already delayed the release of the PSVR 2 internally. The tweet claims that the shipment of VR displays will increase by 50% in 2022 despite production delays from Apple and Sony. An article on the DSCC website also claims that 80% of all VR display shipments are going to Meta, which does not leave much room for the large allotment needed for a VR Headset launching by the end of the year.
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Though Sony never set an official release date, it was expected that the PSVR 2 would release during the Holiday 2022 Season. An internal delay of the PSVR 2 is not totally surprising. Just like the many other games that have seen delays, a hardware delay fits right in, though the cause for the delay seems unspecified. This tweet talks generally about the VR displays expected to ship increasing significantly throughout the year, so at least on this front, there are no issues in this supply chain. It's possible that a delay to the PSVR 2 could be at the back of the, admittedly shortening, line of supply chain issues that hampered the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X|S for nearly a year and a half.
It's also possible that the PSVR 2 delay has nothing to do with the subsiding
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