Sony’s first PlayStation VR for the PlayStation 4 hit shops on the proper value on the proper time and ended up being one in every of VR’s greatest hits. The PlayStation 5’s PlayStation VR2? Not a lot, sadly. In both an effort to clear unsold stock, an try and revitalize the platform, or each, Sony has introduced it is dropping the worth of the headset considerably.

Beginning in March, the principle SKU of the headset will drop from $550 to $400 within the US. Europe, the UK, and Japan will even see value cuts to 550 euros, 400 kilos, and 66,980 yen, respectively, as detailed on the PlayStation Blog. Surprisingly, the bundle that features the sport Horizon: Name of the Mountain (initially $600) will even drop to the identical precise value. That is welcome, but it surely’s additionally somewhat bit troublesome to not interpret that as an indication that that is an try and empty stock greater than the rest.

The headset launched in early 2023 however has suffered from weak software support ever since—a far cry from the primary PSVR, which had one of many strongest libraries of its time. It did not assist that not like the common PlayStation 5, the PSVR2 was not backward-compatible with video games launched for its predecessor.

A couple of yr in the past, there have been studies that Sony was quickly pausing production as a result of it wasn’t in a position to transfer the stock it already had. Later, the corporate launched an adapter and a few software program for getting it running on PCs. That made it some of the enticing PC VR headsets, at the very least on paper. Nonetheless, setup was clunky, and a few options that have been supported on the PS5 weren’t supported on PC.

PSVR2 video games are nonetheless getting introduced and launched, however the VR market generally has slowed down fairly a bit in recent times, and a lot of the remaining motion (reminiscent of it’s) is on Meta’s Quest platform.