Sony today announced it’s permanently discounting PSVR 2 starting next month, bringing the PS5 and PC-compatible VR headset to $400.

Sony launched PSVR 2 nearly two years ago today at $550. Now, following little fanfare at its two-year anniversary—and no real mention during its State of Play two weeks ago—Sony is slashing the price of PSVR 2 to $400 / €450 / £400 / ¥66,980 starting in March.

Interestingly, the new $400 MSRP affects both its basic PSVR bundle, which includes the headset, two Sense controllers, and headphones, and the Horizon Call of the Mountain hardware bundle, which was priced at $600 at the headset’s February 2023 launch.

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Granted, PSVR 2 has seen a number of sales in the past that brought the headset down an even lower price than we’ll see in March. In November 2024, Sony discounted the Horizon Call of the Mountain bundle to just $350, which could mean the best potential savings are yet to come.

While Sony highlights a slate of high-quality PSVR 2 content in its new pricing announcement, including Skydance’s Behemoth, Metro Awakening VR, and Alien: Rogue Incursion, and also upcoming games like Aces of Thunder, Dreams of Another, Hitman World of Assassination, and The Midnight Walk—the company hasn’t really thrown its full support behind PSVR 2.

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Sony has released only a handful of first-party titles for PSVR 2, including Horizon Call of the Mountain, and VR modes for Gran Turismo 7, Resident Evil Village and Resident Evil 4 Remake. This comes in contrast to titles released and/or published by Sony for the original 2016 PSVR, with included Astro Bot Rescue Mission, Blood & Truth, Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, PlayStation VR Worlds, VR Playroom, and VR modes for Gran Turismo Sport and Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.

Granted, Sony has done PSVR 2 players somewhat of a solid by releasing its PC Adapter for $60 last August, which lets users hook into a VR-ready PC to play SteamVR games like Half-Life: Alyx, Fallout 4 VR and more. Still, the company’s modus operandi suggests this was only the beginning of its drawn-out decoupling of PSVR 2 from the broader PS5 ecosystem.

Still, inevitable discounts yet to come could see a similar bump in respectable year-over-year sales like it did this Holiday Season, which could bring in more PS5 players looking to play not only the backlog of genuinely great games, but also that steady stream of third-party titles that hasn’t seemed to slow down. Provided we see another 42% discount like Black Friday, that would bring PSVR 2 to just $232—putting well into stocking stuffer territory.

Update (February 27th, 2025): Corrected the Euro price to €450 (originally reported as €550).

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Scott Hayden
Well before the first modern XR products hit the market, Scott recognized the potential of the technology and set out to understand and document its growth. He has been professionally reporting on the space for nearly a decade as Editor at Road to VR, authoring more than 4,000 articles on the topic. Scott brings that seasoned insight to his reporting from major industry events across the globe.
  • Dale Kirkley

    The Resident Evil VR conversions are almost worth the asking price alone, especially once you factor in it can relatively easily be used for PCVR too, but sadly the lackluster title count in the PlayStation library is doing them no favours elsewhere.

  • Leisure Suit Barry

    £199 and I will think about it, not really worth more than that with all the associated problems

    • polysix

      You don't even deserve a PSVR2 no matter the price. Uninformed tw0t.

      • Leisure Suit Barry

        I don't deserve the dated lenses with terrible sweet spot?

        Thank God!

    • gothicvillas

      Please don't ever buy vr. We don't want you.

      • Christian Schildwaechter

        Don't be too hasty. GBP 199 is currently USD 251. Wellsenn XR, who have published a lot of teardowns with build cost estimates for numerous HMDs also released a very detailed one for PSVR2 that comes to a total BOM of USD 261.74. So with falling component costs, GBP 200/USD 250 might become at least possible.

        And we know the huge impact lowering the price for Quest 2 to first USD 249 in late 2023 and finally USD 199 in early 2024 had on sales, and PSVR2 sales shooting through the roof at USD 349 instead of USD 549, so Sony will at least think about this.

        We absolutely want everybody that is interested in VR to get a VR HMD, because growing the user numbers is the only way to get to more high profile games, so enthusiasts dissing people for not yet being willing to invest as much as they themselves do isn't helping. Esp. when lowering prices clearly helps and the price threshold given is actually technical possible.

        • Leisure Suit Barry

          I bought a PSVR1 V2 with 2 x Move, the camera and Firewall Zero Hour for £210 in 2018. I already had the V1 but bought a V2 for the HDR passthrough.

          PSVR2 for £200 plus Globular Cluster £50, so £250 all in seems a fair price

      • Leisure Suit Barry

        Been playing VR since 2016

    • Nevets

      OK LSB, they'll manage without you then

      • Leisure Suit Barry

        I don’t think they will manage, PSVR2 was DOA due to the price

    • mirak

      Et tu veux pas dix balles et Mars avec ?

  • Christian Schildwaechter

    Better late than never. And maybe even well timed to benefit from current outrage among VR gamers, caused by Meta aggressively pushing Horizon Worlds into everyone's face and now focusing on simpler free-to-play content instead of more complex VR games.

    Sony is slashing the price of PSVR 2 to $400 / €550 / £400 / ¥66,980 starting in March.

    The new price in Europe is EUR 450, not EUR 550.

  • eadVrim

    It's hard to switch from pancake lenses to frensel. But it's harder to switch from oled to normal lcd.

    • david vincent

      Yeah but you can't have both oled and pancake lenses :(

      • eadVrim

        Unfortunately

    • simon cox

      Isn't PSVR2 also wired?

  • It was about time!

  • ApocalypseShadow

    I'll have a look if Blood and Truth Remake or Remaster and Astrobot are ported from PSVR. Even games like a next Gen Sairento or a full Ace Combat 7. If not, then no.

    The price is definitely better.

  • Yeshaya

    Really wish PSVR would follow their flatscreen exclusive pattern and port to PCVR after a couple years. I'd probably get this just for Call of the Mountain, though I'd consider using it for PCVR instead of the Quest 3 if it was easier to implement eye tracked FC without so much 3rd party fiddling.

  • Leisure Suit Barry

    Tool little too late unfortunately. this should of been the launch price and it should now be £300 after 2 years on the market.

  • david vincent

    Remove the mura and i'm in

  • DanielD

    Never buying a Sony VR product again after how fast they ditched it and closed their main VR studios.