Popularity of Sony’s PlayStation VR Surprises Even the Company – The New York Times (Feb 27, 2017)
This is a rare non-MWC announcement this morning, but is interesting in context of all the mobile-centric news coming out this week. Sony has sold just under a million Playstation VR headsets since its launch – 915k as of a week ago – which is really very impressive given the installed base of Playstation consoles is vastly smaller than the base of smartphones in use. It also means this will be a useful revenue stream for Sony – at $400 a pop, that’s $360 million or so so far, which is probably as much or more than Samsung has made from selling / bundling its Gear VR headsets. I continue to believe that the next couple of years in VR will be characterized by a bifurcation between relatively small numbers of sales of high-end rigs from Oculus, Sony, HTC, and the like on the one hand, and larger unit sales (at much lower prices) of mobile headsets. Over time, a third category of standalone units will emerge and take some meaningful share, but for now it’s about these two extremes.
via New York Times
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