Unique PSVR video games aren’t playable on Ps VR2, Sony confirms.
On Sony’s Official PlayStation Podcast Hideaki Nishino, SVP of Platform Expertise, was requested whether or not authentic PlayStation VR video games might be performed on PlayStation VR2. He replied:
PSVR video games aren’t appropriate with PSVR 2 as a result of PSVR 2 is designed to ship a really subsequent era VR expertise. PSVR 2 has far more superior options like all new controller with haptic suggestions and adaptive triggers, inside out monitoring, eye monitoring, 3D audio is coming collectively, 4K HDR after all.
So this implies creating video games for PSVR 2 requires a complete new strategy than the unique PSVR.
Nishino’s response doesn’t clarify intimately what precise “complete new strategy” is required, nevertheless it in all probability largely considerations the vastly completely different controllers. Firstly, many authentic PSVR video games used the DualShock 4 gamepad tracked by the PlayStation 4 Digicam, because the headset was offered with or with out the optionally available PlayStation Transfer hand controllers which just some video games required.
Secondly, the brand new PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers have a really completely different structure to these Transfer controllers. They’ve fewer buttons, as an alternative having thumbsticks and a grip set off for choosing up objects naturally. At minimal, builders would wish to remap inputs and replace the controller fashions. And as Nishino hints, to really benefit from the brand new {hardware} there’d be much more work concerned.
Questions nonetheless stay about whether or not proudly owning an authentic PSVR model of a recreation will entitle you to a PSVR 2 model ought to one be launched – or not less than an improve priced lower than the total recreation. These questions will possible be answered nearer to launch.
That launch is slated for early 2023. We just lately went hands-on with the {hardware}: learn our first impressions right here.
