PSVR – The End Of An Era?
The original PSVR launched back in October 2016 and went on to receive more than 600 releases, with around 300 of those also appearing on physical media. A last goodbye to the game changing medium.
On PlayStation 4 I shifted mostly to digital purchases—my man cave was already overflowing with physical games—but I still picked up a few boxed PSVR and flat titles. I’m glad I did, because disappearing games from the PlayStation Store has become a real annoyance over the years.
In total, my PSVR collection ended up at 55 sealed physical games and 567 digital ones. Not a bad way to show support for the platform, I’d say.
Unfortunately, this past year has only seen a handful of new PSVR releases, most of which have flown under the radar on social media. That probably says a lot about how poorly they performed, and at this point it feels like the platform has quietly come to a halt.
Of course, PSVR2 is a big reason why the original headset has been left behind, and I’m fine with that—it’s natural progression. For those who haven’t upgraded yet, though, I can imagine it feels a bit different.
My PSVR is still hooked up to my PlayStation 5 and always will be, right alongside the PSVR2. In my eyes the two headsets complement each other, at least for now.
So, is this the end of the road? Maybe. But looking back, it’s been an incredible ride. My PSVR clocked an insane 10,504 hours of playtime (yes, ten thousand!). What’s even more impressive is that in the last 30 months I only used it for about 500 hours, according to my yearly PlayStation stats.
I have included a link to the ALL delisted games for PS4 on the PlayStation Store, notice that there’s actually a lot of VR games too 🙁 * read and weep *
NOTE : If you have purchased them then you can still redownload them of course.
That’s all for now—thanks for the memories PSVR , thanks for the fun, and thanks to you for reading
Whaaat? StarWars Battlefront is VR compatible? No way???
Must buy that and StarWars Squadrons then 🙂
SW Battlefront is just a tiny item in VR but it was well worth my time as a thing to show new VR users of the potential. Squadrons on the other hand is a full blown VR title.
So many games that I never knew had a physical version… Is there a list somewhere?
I wish there was a link somewhere, I need to check more. That said, there is a group on PSVR Physical Collectors Facebook that got complete collections with pictures, i suggest you check there.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/psvrphysical
cheers
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R.i.p psvr. Fantastic game library, maybe the best for VR ever
Really sad to see that support died off when PSVR2 came out, but aas you said too – natural progression.
That wipeout box 😱😱😱😱😱😱
What is that? Special edition box??
Yeah, a very limited slip cover series. I will do an own article on those I guess.