Home / Component / Virtual Reality / Sony has sold close to 1 million PSVR headsets

Sony has sold close to 1 million PSVR headsets

It looks like Sony's efforts to bring virtual reality to consoles has been paying off as close to one million PlayStation VR headsets have been sold since launch back in October, despite bouts of stock shortages over the holiday season.

In total, Sony has sold 915,000 PlayStation VR headsets as of the 19th of February and in an effort to combat the stock shortages hitting countries like the UK, Sony is ramping up production to try and meet worldwide demand over the next few months.

Unfortunately, we are unsure exactly where this puts Sony on the sales ladder when it comes to VR headsets as HTC and Oculus have not confirmed exact sales figures for the Vive or the Rift. That said, if Sony can keep shifting units at its current rate, then perhaps we will see more developers become interested in developing for VR as right now, there aren't many ‘full games' available.

KitGuru Says: Great games are made if and when there is money to be made. Now that developers have more customers to sell to, perhaps we will see some bigger VR games land on PlayStation. That said, I would love to know where Sony stands in comparison to the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. Do any of you own a VR headset at the moment? Are you thinking of buying one this year? 

Become a Patron!

Check Also

HITMAN World PSVR2

HITMAN World of Assassination comes to PSVR2 later this month

Following a slight delay, HITMAN World of Assassination is finally coming to PSVR2 later this month on the 27th of March.

We've noticed that you are using an ad blocker.

Thank you for visiting KitGuru. Our news and reviews teams work hard to bring you the latest stories and finest, in-depth analysis.

We want to be as informative as possible – and to help our readers make the best buying decisions. The mechanism we use to run our business and pay some of the best journalists in the world, is advertising.

If you want to support KitGuru, then please add www.kitguru.net to your ad blocking whitelist or disable your adblocking software. It really makes a difference and allows us to continue creating the kind of content you really want to read.

It is important you know that we don’t run pop ups, pop unders, audio ads, code tracking ads or anything else that would interfere with the KitGuru experience. Adblockers can actually block some of our free content, such as galleries!