Sony has announced today that, in 19 February, the company has sold about 915,000 PlayStation VR devices. Sony achived that number in only four months after launch. This number is actually surprising, according to the company itself. Before, Sony has only targeted the goal of selling 1 million VR devices by mid-April. Along with the number sold, the average number of hours played with the VR devices has also increased. A notable example is Resident Evil 7, which supported VR, has its average playtime doubled. The game itself is set to sell 4 million copies on launch.
This is a really promising sign for Sony. For now, we don’t have official data, but according to SuperData Research, the Occulus Rift has sold 243,000, and 420,000 for the HTC Vive until the end of 2016 (both of these devices are launched at mid-2016). We can see that the PlayStation VR is doing significantly better than its competitors, by selling more in a shorter amount of time. This is definitely great news for Sony, as it was quite skeptical on entering the VR race before.
One factor that makes the PlayStaiton VR more appealing compared to other competitors may be the price. The price of a PS4 Pro + PS VR set is definitely much cheaper than the price for a whole PC set and the additional VR devices such as the Rift or the Vive. Sony also said that the numbers could have been better. As said before, Sony was quite skeptical about the VR market, and did not plan to mass produce the VR. That has lead to shortages of supply on its home turf, Japan.
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