 Hello. I'm Petrifying Pumpkins and I am worried about the PSVR2. I'm making this video one day before the PSVR2's one year anniversary. And in my opinion it has been a fantastic year for PSVR2 titles. Absolutely shits on PSVR1's first year. You've got your Resident Evil Ace, you've got your No Man's Sky, you've got Gran Turismo 7, Horizon, all these big AAA slappers on day one really blew it out of the park. You had your Pavlov later on cam Firewall, you had Breachers, you had goddamn the most recent one I could think of recently before Remake, a big one and a bunch of other titles as well that I just can't think of off the top of my head. But my point is that year one of PSVR2 has been pretty phenomenal I would say. And if year two and year three can keep that going well then I'll be pretty happy with my 600 euro investment in the PSVR2 headset. The problem for me right now is that I'm not sure that year two and year three will match what year one has done. In fact right now I cannot think off the top of my head at least of a single AAA title you know something on the level of Resident Evil, something on the level of Gran Turismo 7 that is announced that is upcoming maybe Metro Awakening VR but even that I haven't seen enough of it yet to convince me that this is you know up there on those kind of upper echelons with you know Resident Evil 4 Remake or something like that. Now that's not to say there is no games that I'm looking forward to I cannot wait for Phasmophobia I cannot wait for Aces of Thunder and even Metro Awakening as well that's something I'm excited about. So there are games coming up that I am really excited about it just feels that all of a sudden we've gotten to a point with the PSVR2 where we are relying on the Indies to carry the PSVR2 headset and I don't think there's any platform out there that has been very successful when it has had to rely solely on indie developers to carry the mantle going forward. On top of that over recent months there just has been more and more red flags popping up in the world of PSVR2 that has got me you know more and more concerned as the months have gone on. So first things first I mean we can look at the sales of the PSVR2 I believe after six weeks we got the update that it had sold 600,000 units so it was actually you know that was actually pretty good that was outpacing PSVR1 but since then we've got nothing official from Sony. Now if you look at the PS5 Sony do like to keep us updates as you know every quarter or so every few months it seems we get an update you know that Sony has hit 13 million now they've hit 50 million there's nothing like that for PSVR2 maybe it's a case of you know they don't want to announce it because it doesn't look good. Then you had that big Insomniac leak where a hacker got into the system and you know revealed all their upcoming plans for the next 10 years for Insomniac and you know not a single one of those titles had anything to do with PSVR2 which was particularly disappointing for me as a PSVR fan because when Sony acquired Insomniac it was particularly exciting because Insomniac have a history of making high quality games for the Oculus Rift and judging by these leaks, judging by the roadmap that they have internally we won't get to see the fruits of that talent on PSVR2. Then there was the first contact entertainment scenario incident fiasco whatever you want to call us where firewall ultra came out a sequel to one of the best games on PSVR1 one of the most successful games on PSVR1 I would say and that game had a difficult launch and after four months the studio had to close down and I would say in large part that is due to Sony choosing not to support them keeping in mind firewall is a first-party Sony title that was just four months after the game and keep in mind also that the game had significantly improved with you know patches over time I feel like it was heading towards a really good direction and then that just got cut short four months I mean that's ridiculously short not too long after that we had the Rec Room developers telling us that it was not financially or economically viable for them to port Rec Room over to PSVR2 another red flag for me then you had the amazon sales chart the pie graph thing where they showed that the Quest 2 and Quest 3 combined were outselling PSVR2 at a raise of about 30 to 1 which was just horrific to look at you also then had the comments from the Ubisoft co-founder Yves Guimon or whatever you say I don't know French name I can't pronounce it but basically he wasn't very satisfied with the way assassins Creed Nexus which is a big kind of AAA level game for the quest how it performed in terms of sales and you might say to yourself well assassin's Creed Nexus has got nothing to do with PSVR2 but what I would say is that if the Quest and all the sales they're getting apparently there's 20 million of them out there plus if they can't satisfy these AAA developers that we want to be making games on our platform then how was the PSVR2 going to be able to do that now there is counter arguments for probably each and every one of the red flags I have raised and by the way I welcome the counter arguments in the comments below if you have them those counter arguments may make it seem not as bad as the red flags initially seem so for example one of the ones I've seen is that you know the Rec Room developers they may have started life as a VR studio but Rec Room has kind of expanded past that like they're big on flat traditional consoles they're big on mobile now and maybe virtual reality just isn't a big priority for them anymore because that's not where the money is and that's you know fair enough you could also say that just because Sony hasn't told us what the sales are for the PSVR2 it doesn't necessarily mean that they're bad they could be just waiting for a milestone like tomorrow for the one year anniversary and they might reveal something that's you know more than I expected which would be nice and you know stuff like just because Insomniac don't have a PSVR2 game on the roadmap right now doesn't mean things can't change doesn't mean somebody can't come in and make the request hey make this with your support or whatever that's all subject to change so yeah that's fair enough also it also doesn't rule out the possibility that you know Naughty Dog or Sony Santa Monica or any of the other Sony first-party studios could be working on something behind the scenes that we don't know about and what I do think is some of these you know counter arguments are plausible maybe possible or probable in some cases I still have doubts remaining and those doubts will continue to hang over my head like a dark cloud until Sony comes along and dispels them hopefully tomorrow at this you know one-year anniversary I'm expecting maybe a blog post or some kind or you know something to acknowledge the one-year anniversary and I hope they mark it with something special I hope they can show us you know maybe a new game you know astro bars twisted metal these kind of things have been rumored for a long time maybe they'll give us the sales figures and say hey look it's actually sold three million units and that would surprise me that would be much healthier than I would have expected I highly doubt it's that high from what I've seen from a lot of even developers talking about it's more closer to one million I think so I'll be shocked if it's anything more than that but for me the best thing that they could do is to cut the price of the ps viewer to it is expensive ever since they revealed the price of the ps viewer to I was just worried from the get-go that this was going to be you know it's going to find a hard time gaining traction in the mainstream at a price you know it was more expensive than the ps5 in some places at least and that seems to be the first thing that you know the average gamer who's not a viewer enthusiast the kind of people that we need to be getting into the or if we want to see the or go mainstream they're the ones saying this thing is more expensive than the console itself I'm not buying this I don't care how many good games it has it's just a ridiculous price it's a peripheral why is the peripheral cost and more than the console itself and these are things that Sony need to address and the one way to do that is to cut the price you know bring it down to 400 cut take 100s take 150 off if possible it might not be possible it might not be economically feasible for them to do that but I still feel like it needs to happen and then I think they need to try and focus on recouping those costs or those losses by focusing on selling software down the line making it back that way that seems that's the way it's kind of done when it comes to console hardware I mean you have to keep in mind as well as deadeye dan told me in the discord like it was a good point he brought up is you know the way the world is right now in terms of the economy the inflation the cost of living crisis that's happening in a lot of countries it's just so difficult for somebody to look at a ps4 or two in my country costs 600 euro maybe it's 550 in america or whatever it is and that's like a big amount of money to be tossing away on you know like a luxury item whereas maybe seven years ago when the ps4 one came out it was probably easier to do that you know the world seemed a bit it wasn't a better place back then I think the other key point that I think Sony needs to focus on after pricing has to be hybrid games I think they really need to lean into this hybrid game model grantor is most seven resonant evil those games have shown us you know that's just spice something like assassin's creed nexus maybe that's not feasible maybe it's not feasible to do a viewer only game at a triple a level to see a healthy return on investment but when you do the hybrid approach even if the viewer aspect of it flops to some degree you still have the flat aspect of it the traditional aspect so grantor is most seven you know maybe only five percent of people bought that game with ps4 or two in mind but it doesn't matter because they still had all the sales from the people who bought it with flash in mind same a resonant evil spread the risk by going hybrid you know I think that's where we are right now with viewer the stage that we're in in the game like it's not strong enough to swim by itself yet it needs the kind of the training wheels that uh the hybrid games provide and this is how we get triple a in viewer and it works hybrid just makes so much sense and even like I thought we were on the same page with sony because jim ryan did an interview with wired maybe I can't remember who was but uh he did discuss this he said that hybrid seemed to be the way to go so going into this generation I was like cool we can expect a lot more hybrid games games like hitman games like resonant evil seven and of course capcom came good with resonant evil a's and four but I was expecting more and I was expecting it to be you know faster right now we kind of don't have anything to look forward to in terms of like a big triple a hybrid we don't know of any of them yet that's not to say they're not in the pipeline obviously but uh when it comes to first priority as well it's been kind of disappointing you know you look at the last of us part one remake that was a perfect opportunity for them to add virtual reality into us and they never did you know games like god of war uncharted collection or whatever like all of these games especially good at their first party sony have to be doing more to get virtual reality support into them give people reason to buy the fucking thing so I'm really hoping tomorrow that sony can touch on some of these concerns that I'm having some of these doubts and show us some signs that they're heading in the right direction with ps viewer 2 I mean the nightmare scenario that I believe is possible very possible is that they just put out a blog post or a tweet saying happy birthday ps viewer 2 see you later that's it nothing else and then this big narrative is created by the IGNs the big media sites out there with massive reach and you'll start seeing the articles you know one-year laser my headset still gathering dust and blah blah blah blah the usual and uh it just like this negativity will snowball and get worse and it actually will affect you know the future of the platform in a negative way so please sony throw us a bone tomorrow at this one-year anniversary or sometime in the very near future so that we can get a solid roadmap and something to look forward to like a solid list of types to look forward to and some hope for the price cut and you know focus on hybrid and all these other things I've mentioned I mean is a loss I think that needs to be done to get ps viewer 2 and to what people would consider a successful place but you might disagree with me maybe I'm a being a doom merchant or you know whatever there's people out there who don't like to see the criticism I'm a massive fan of ps viewer 2 my channel is dedicated to ps viewer 2 that channel depends on ps viewer 2 to do well or else you know the channel's done so it doesn't benefit me it does not behoove me for ps viewer 2 to not do well I wanted to do well but I can't ignore what's in front of us year one has been fantastic I've said this already but I need year two and three and four and five and six to all be fantastic as well anyway that's it for this video lads and ladies if you've enjoyed us and want more ps viewer 2 content in your life then hit subscribe before I go let me thank my subscribers on sorry my youtube members I should say whose names are on the screen as I speak they are the following Vincent McLoan Mr. Tortoise Ezeke Roy Martini on stablefox Maiki Moi on Evans DJ's son 57 Jason UNTB a puck dcfc scooby man the gamecast brian tam higher primate 30 pietre geff nart boglin jl frebs nominal ship shifter the amorphous game cat chid eam amanda cleric germ warfare her ratio ward funky slot love machine ac3 infinity lefty ac6 the mad hatter prophecy 777 Durbin brown Jeremiah Roy Schwartz gezza captain f castle not going to say that one out loud chair phase papa shuffler Jeremy winno heather 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