PS VR2 was designed from the ground up specifically for PS5 – so you’ll notice that some key features, like HDR, headset feedback, eye tracking, adaptive triggers, and haptic feedback (other than rumble), are not available when playing on PC

Well that’s disappointing.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Woo proprietary bs!

Basically, we could give you these features, but we still want to sell you a console.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sony seems to have the delusion that their recent PC plays will get people onto their platform. It’s silly

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like a dumb move. I thought the money was in software/game sales, not hardware that's sold at a loss?

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They want people on the hardware as they don’t need to share a cut with valve on software sales. Makes it easier to pitch other services to users when they’re locked into your platform too.

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

That still doesn't make sense. All this does is enable the PS VR headset to be used with a PC to play steam games. It gives people that already own a PS VR another option for usage: plugging it into a PC and playing VR games they purchased through steam. It lowers the barrier to entry for the user to experience PC VR games by being able to use hardware they already have on hand instead of having to purchase an Oculus or Index. Valve still gets their software sales cut because you can only use the PS VR to play games in your steam library on PC.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

They don’t care about you buying the hardware itself, they want you to buy into the PlayStation platform where they get a cut of all sales and don’t pay a cut to valve.

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