VR Sales Analysis: Rift and Vive to Sell Under 500K in 2016, PS VR to Top 2M

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by SkarredGhost • 10 years ago

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arcanus• 10 years ago

It's not the hardware. VR needs a killer game to make a market.

sp332• 10 years ago

But for now, Sony has a more comfortable headset, lower price, easier setup, and better games. Maybe by the time the next generation of PC VR hardware is ready, game designers will have figured out something compelling to play on them.

rocky1138• 10 years ago

Are you implying my gardening simulator is not the killer app guaranteed to push units?

andywood• 10 years ago

I agree there isn't a killer game yet, and half the titles are actually demos being sold as games. However there are already several very good games: Eagle Flight, Bound, Robinson, Job Simulator. I'm not even slightly disappointed with the current, very early library.

AndrewKemendo• 10 years ago

I think that's what they were hoping to do with Lucky's Tale - the Super Mario Bros of the VR world. Only problem is, kids aren't playing VR games.

Kids are playing PokemonGo - which is AR.

[1]http://newatlas.com/luckys-tale-oculus-rift/41343/

floopidydoopidy• 10 years ago

Also, the full depth of the Oculus as a spyware service was revealed right before Lucky's Tale was released.

swsieber• 10 years ago

If it's vr with hand tracking, I think an Avatar (the series) game would be amazing.

talmand• 10 years ago

Well, that can depend on the individual. I personally would buy the Vive just for the archery game in Valve's The Lab.

If I could justify the expense, that is.

pault• 10 years ago

I would expect the ratio of console HMDs to PC HMDs to rapidly approach the ratio of console gamers to PC gamers. I'm hoping the VR edition of Fallout 4 pushes VR into the mainstream.

strictnein2• 10 years ago

Also the VR version of Doom (2016) could definitely help. But getting lost in the world of Fallout 4 does sound amazing.

BOBOTWINSTON• 10 years ago

I don't believe Doom has been confirmed as a full port. It may end up as a short experience or a totally different game. I can't find any confirmation, but that was the rumor after E3.

louhike• 10 years ago

Won't a game like Doom cause motion sickness in the current state of VR technology?

serg_chernata• 10 years ago

PS VR is not for me, I'll always be a PC enthusiast. However, I am incredibly excited about PS getting into this space. I hope they will increase competition on price and the technology itself.

AlwaysRock• 10 years ago

Great. They are different markets. It's console vs PC gaming. They can co exist. One is a different experience and fuller experience but cost a bit more and requires some set up.

EpicEng• 10 years ago

It costs a fair bit more and, thus far, has very few games worth playing in the catalog. They're definitely not two completely separate markets, there's a lot of crossover. I could run either and, if I were to buy one today, I'd go with the PS version.

benmcnelly• 10 years ago

Any VR sales are good for all of VR. We are still solving problems with making VR comfortable for people and locomotion etc. What encourages me about it, is some of best and brightest are working on the problems. Sure we have a lot of Demos right now and no killer app that will make it take off, but all it takes is something like Valve releasing an updated Vive bundled with Half-Life 3, and the PC market will catch up in a hurry.

danmaz74• 10 years ago

TL;DR: The organization found that, by the end of 2016, the Oculus Rift is projected to sell 355,088 units; the HTC Vive will sell 420,108 units; Google Daydream will sell 450,083 units; and the PS VR will sell 2,602,307 units. In addition, the analysis also purports that the Samsung Gear VR — built in collaboration with Oculus — will sell 2,316,632 units.

taspeotis• 10 years ago

    The organization found that, by the end of 2016,
    the Oculus Rift is projected to sell 355,088 units;
    the HTC Vive will sell 420,108 units;

Steam's Hardware and Software Survey [1] has Vive:Rift at approximately 2:1. It seems to me that Rift and Vive owners would be very likely to have Steam installed. More accurate than:

    SuperData’s approach to the market for consumer-
    centered virtual reality includes retail checks, executive
    interviews with decision-makers from all of relevant
    firms in the marketplace, pricing data, our survey-based
    consumer tracking panel, and digital content purchases
    collected from our data providers

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

VR Sales Analysis: Rift and Vive to Sell Under 500K in 2016, PS VR to Top 2M

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