When Sony launched its PlayStation VR 2 headset final yr, it was designed to work solely with the corporate’s online game console, the PlayStation 5. By the tip of this yr, the corporate says it will work with PCs too. In a blog post Thursday, the gaming big stated it is “at present testing” the flexibility for PSVR 2 gamers to entry video games on PCs.
“We hope to make this help accessible in 2024, so keep tuned for extra updates,” the publish reads.
Sony’s transfer to develop entry to its PSVR 2 comes simply days after the corporate instructed traders its 4-year-old PS5 video game console was coming into the “latter stage of its life cycle,” an indication that the corporate’s investments would possibly look extra towards future applied sciences relatively than additional build up present units. VR and mixed-reality headsets have been gaining recognition, with Apple not too long ago launching the Vision Pro following the success of Meta’s Quest headset.
A Sony spokesperson did not instantly reply to a request for remark about whether or not the $550 PSVR 2 will work with rival VR platforms akin to Valve’s Steam retailer or the one operated by Quest 3 maker Meta.
The publish additionally introduced new PSVR 2 titles, together with time touring shooter sport Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate, which is arriving June 27 for Sony’s console in addition to the Steam retailer and Meta’s Quest headset.
Sony is not the one firm seeking to department out its gaming enterprise past console hardware. Over the previous week, Microsoft has introduced plans to start out selling some of its games, akin to Uncommon’s Sea of Thieves on-line pirate sport and the award-winning music rhythm sport Hello-Fi Rush, to rival consoles, together with Sony’s PS5.
For its half, Sony has begun releasing a few of its hottest video games on PC too, together with a remade model of its hit 2013 survival horror sport The Last of Us Part 1 and the 2018 motion sport Marvel’s Spider-Man.
