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PlayStation shifts lanes, letting its family-friendly ambitions known

Rhys Elliott

6 Jun 2024

Playstation VR

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Sony

Sony’s second State of Play marketing event of 2024 has increased anticipation for the company’s upcoming game releases. The roughly 30-minute presentation advertised 14 games consumers can look forward to in 2024 and 2025.

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The trials and tribulations of virtual reality

Perry Gresham

26 Aug 2022

VR

virtual reality

Playstation VR

The new world of virtual reality (VR) has felt closer over the past ten years than ever, but is still just over the horizon. VR remains niche The main sticking point is adoption: currently just under one in ten US gamers has a VR headset, dropping to around 1 in 20 in western Europe and even less in...

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Quick Take: Will PlayStation’s growing VR games catalogue move the needle for its VR hardware?

Karol Severin

1 Nov 2017

Games

PlayStation

Playstation VR

We have written on the potential of VR in the past , specifically about our concern that gaming VR headsets will not take off en masse, until there is content mix compelling enough to justify device price points.

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Playstation VR’s Japanese Sales Spell Trouble for Virtual Reality Adoption

Zach Fuller

25 Oct 2016

Gaming

htc vive

japan

Sony’s entry into the VR market came with a lot of hype and it was easy to see why. Initially developed under the codename ‘Project Morpheus’, it arrived with brand recognition (Playstation), high-profile gaming IP content (Resident Evil), and a lower price tag than both the Oculus Rift and HT...

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Why Oculus Rift Will Struggle in its UK Launch

Zach Fuller

22 Sep 2016

Facebook

htc

oculus rift

Four years after its near-mythical Kickstarter campaign introduced the name Oculus Rift into the consciousness of virtual reality believers worldwide, the headset finally launches in the UK this week. Arguably the poster-child product for VR’s renaissance since its company’s acquisition by Faceb...

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Why HTC's 10,000 VR Kiosks in China Could Change the Course of VR

Zach Fuller

8 Jul 2016

htc vive

oculus

Playstation VR

HTC have announced they will be delivering over 10,000 pop-up VR kiosks or ‘Experience Sites’ in public places all around China. More than a publicity stunt, the move could prove significant not just in the quest for VR hardware market share but also in changing the strategies of future tech dev...

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