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Sony: PS VR Owners Spending "Many Hours" With System "Every Day"

Sony: PS VR Owners Spending "Many Hours" With System "Every Day"

Despite numerous analyst reports and predictions, we’re still left guessing how many units Sony’s PlayStation VR has sold since launch in October. The company did recently provide a small insight into how long owners are spending with the headset, though.

In an interview with Digital Spy, Sony Interactive Entertainment Head of Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, stated that “people are spending many hours on the system every day.” It’s come as a surprise to the company as VR in its current state can often be uncomfortable or, in Yoshida’s words, “intense”. In fact, the PlayStation figurehead himself wasn’t anticipating that players would spend hours inside their headsets at this point.

He also noted that the kit was “selling out pretty much everywhere”, though declined to give official stats.

Yoshida didn’t reveal what games were being played the most inside PS VR, though last month Sony did confirm that Batman: Arkham VR [Review: 5/10] and Job Simulator [Review: 8/10] were selling best on the PlayStation Store. We’ve reached out to PlayStation for some concrete stats and we’ll update this article if we get them.

VR companies have made great strides in increasing VR comfort over the past few years, though many PS VR games still use artificial locomotion with the analog sticks on the DualShock 4 controller, which can be a key cause of simulation sickness. We’ve long wondered if this might hurt the headset’s chances of success, but Sony’s supposed data seems to suggest it won’t.

That’s a relief considering that arguably the two biggest games coming to the headset next year, Resident Evil 7 and Farpoint, use stick-based locomotion. Though far from ideal, it’s a form of movement that is likely to stick around at least during the early days of PS VR.

Still, there aren’t a great many PS VR games that it’s possible to spend many hours with yet, aside from the multiplayer titles.

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