Yes for me too now, but look at the cancel button, it only says "cancel guidelines" now (or something similar, Stornierungsrichtlinien in German).
Headset still has a cancel button but the station is in preparation!
So.....
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Yes for me too now, but look at the cancel button, it only says "cancel guidelines" now (or something similar, Stornierungsrichtlinien in German).
Headset still has a cancel button but the station is in preparation!
So.....
Were you Invite or direct buy?
Either way.. Direct PS is on point with release dates.. Everything I've ordered has received the white glove treatment and is delivered on release day before noon.
For Hello Games, this has become their norm. Generally they have a few smaller updates and 1 larger update each year. The smaller ones are not announced with any fanfare typically, all they get is a cryptic Sean Murray tweet just a few days before they go live. The larger update they may sometimes do a little bit more media/preview for.
So whatever Sony's embargoes may be, it's probably not cramping Hello Games' style in terms of announcements.
At the end of the day I'd have to go with better quality even if it's a higher price. There'll be price drops down the road. I'm not getting a better headset until PS VR3. One changes, one doesn't.
Cool, i'm gonna give Village a good go after noping out of RE7 pretty quickly, the setting is less intense than the Baker place thank god.
There are a few brief areas that are very, very creepy (I'd say creepier than just about anything in 7) but the majority of the game is more action-oriented than scary, imo.
the local store i re ordered from here in NZ informed me yesterday that there would be about a week's delay on the controller charging dock ...no biggie
It's a direct continuation of RE7, so you'd be best off playing that now before release, I know that much. The game would make a lot less sense without that first.
Start again!
It's gonna be my first VR experience ever, ready to have my mind blown.
I don't see why that's a showstopper. Maybe for a 3rd party just trying to reverse engineer things that's a no-go but, for Sony, why would they have any issue replacing that? It clearly wasn't that hard to unplug and detach, just provide a different halo unit with the same plug.
I thought about getting RE Village for the PSVR2 launch and that video reminded me of the fucking doll section, so that is not happening anymore.
Reminder that RE Village is half off for the next day or so.
Reminder that RE Village is half off for the next day or so.
I love seeing how the band is flexible around the sides and rigid in the back. My weird big head always hurts on the sides with the Quest 2 Elite Strap, so it's so nice hearing Sony putting in this effort.
Daaaaang!Just for fun:
- RE8 on VR2
- RE8 on Flatscreen
Keep in mind that I had to crop the non-VR screenshot to make it match, which makes it a bit blurrier than the full image actually is. But it's fair to say it looks very, very similar.
The one thing I worry about is eye-tracking not making this realistic.
I believe I read eye-tracking on the $1500 Quest Pro brings down it's battery life down to 1hr was it?
Yeah I'm not playing with a huge battery on my head. I doubt I'll be playing more than an hour but still.
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PSA: For those who did not claim Saints And Sinners 1 on PS Plus in 2021 (or who currently have no PS Plus sub), the game is half price on US PSN right now. Sale lasts until Thursday next week. I believe it's even lower if you are a plus subscriber, but I can't check that myself.
The above is the PS4 version. It will entitle you to a free PS5/PSVR2 upgrade on March 21st.
Edit: No Man's Sky is supposed to be discounted too but discount does not seem to be live yet. Sale should start on the 15th. Double discounts if you are a Plus subscriber.
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The above is the PS4 version. It will entitle you to a free PS5/PSVR2 upgrade on March 21st.
Edit: No Man's Sky is supposed to be discounted too but discount does not seem to be live yet. Sale should start on the 15th. Double discounts if you are a Plus subscriber.
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Gotta love that since I redeemed the PS Plus version, I can't even buy the linked Tourist Edition. Do we know if the PS5 upgrade will give it to us permanently or will it still be dependent on PS Plus membership? I've seen upgrades work both ways.
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Regarding Cinema Mode: The resolution boost is going to make this much more comparable to gaming on TV. I've actually been using PSVR for playing online MP games as local MP for over 100hrs in the past year or so. As I only have the one TV, but with a PS4 and PS5 hooked up, I've been using the PSVR as a second TV to play Aliens Fireteam Elite with my wife on the couch next to me. Who says VR is anti-social?!
For gamers in similar position, multiple consoles(or PC) with only 1 TV, turning online MP into local MP with partner or kids is IMO a killer feature. Now we just need more consistent cross-play support.
For gamers in similar position, multiple consoles(or PC) with only 1 TV, turning online MP into local MP with partner or kids is IMO a killer feature. Now we just need more consistent cross-play support.
Is that actually worth it tho?
Cause that is $24.99 and S&S2 is $39.99, so buying them apart even with one on sale is $64.99 + tax. But buying both together in a bundle is $59.99.
Plus you also get the Special Edition of both in the bundle.
Saints & Sinners 1/2, probably the closest you'll get to an Immersive Sim.
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True. But with the PS Plus discount I think it should be something like 13$.
Capcom did recently release a PS5 version though, so their code base is up to date with current APIs. It's possible they're working on it, but it would require extra dev to enable the Sense controllers. If Sony's exclusivity deal is up, they could be working on updating it for all modern VR platforms. That would be an incentive to update the control scheme.
Ah thanks, that's the zombie game right? Hmm not really into that.
Weird, I was able to buy the Tourist upgrade from the same version a couple months ago. I'm in the US though, not sure if that matters.
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Some (me) speculated that it was VRS Smash but after watching the hosts' reaction to the game on Without Parole it does not seem that was it.
...I have PS+ but for me it's showing $24.99 hm...
That is correct.
There's a $10 upgrade for the Tourist Edition that seems like the better way to do that.
Hey, it might be worth updating the OP with games that are known to have demos.
There's probably others, but so far I know of:
Song in the Smoke
RE8
C-Smash VRS
A well set-up atmos system is great of course, but there are limitations in how it works.
the system is calibrated for a listening position. You can get more seating positions but you need to add speakers in order to get a good frequency response across the different positions. Which is why a cinema will have 32 or even 62 speakers.
Also the frequency response will drastically change just from the room modes. Bass will change a huge amount for example as you get closer to a wall. Yes you can use DSP but it can only do so much. Also most speakers have pretty drastic frequency changes as you move off-axis from the tweeter. Which is why you'll have your speakers pointed directly at your listening position. I suppose they could be mounted on motorised gimbals.
Home atmos is actually not the same as cinema atmos. And even in the cinema, most of what's heard is in the Bed layer, and the objects are a much lower bitrate than the bed layer. If you could only hear the objects it would sound quite bad. I believe that you don't even have objects activate until you have 5.1.4 speakers, or it can just use the bed, but that may be wrong.
so the PS5 is outputting a bed layer to the avr.
you could theoretically track your movement through the room and adjust trim and rotate the bed layer as you move, to match your head position, however because surround sound relies on very exact timing to fool the brain, and that's why speakers are ideally equidistant from you, the further you get from a speaker, the more the whole sound output from all speakers would have to be delayed. So you would end up with sound not matching the video by a fraction of a second, which is what the illusion is based on.
Probably the biggest thing you'd miss out on when not using binaural audio is the ability to use HRTF. With headphones using binaural audio you can simulate a sound being very close to your ear. You can simulate a mouth whispering very close to your ear, at a very specific distance and position. That is something you can't do with a surround speaker setup. Sound cannot come close, it always appears to be some distance away. If you could sit in a cinema and hear a whisper in your ear, or a car motor behind your head, or even a sound inside your head, that would be a game changer.
I will definitely be using my surround speakers to play some games that I'll be seated in, like GT7. Some things can't be replicated by headphones, you can't beat a big subwoofer and speakers for that kind of sound imo.
As the other poster said,
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Again: I never said the value isn't in the box for $500. I was responding to someone saying this could be VR's PS2 and on that topic, I think the price is too high to get it that kind of market penetration, for the same reason you stated: people not being willing to spend $500 on anything for entertainment, especially a peripheral.
This tell me the 3D audio must be really good then.
Yup, this is the only thing I check PS Direct for, the cancel guidelines, lol. I will get the tracking info in an email, so thats whatever. That cancel guidelines just eases my mind because I know everything went thru with no problems because I can no longer cancel the order.Yes for me too now, but look at the cancel button, it only says "cancel guidelines" now (or something similar, Stornierungsrichtlinien in German).
Headset still has a cancel button but the station is in preparation!
So.....
The price will fall. It doesn't need to sell 10 million in a year. Let's see how things go but it's possible this could be a lot cheaper in a few years.
The US got a much nicer price than the rest of the world though.
In Australia the prices are much more comparable: PS2 launched in Australia for AU$750. PSVR2 is AU$880.
The real trick PS2 pulled off was being able to be scaled down and sold a lot cheaper over time - which kept sales ticking.
But we're not seeing that with modern electronics - heck, prices are going up instead of down.
PSVR2 isn't even much more expensive than PSVR + Move controllers - but you wouldn't presume that from most reactions to the price.
PSVR bundles did end up reasonably cheap though, so who knows...
Yeah, I hope it does get some significant price drops. In spite of what a nice product it is, I don't see it gaining a lot of traction until then.
But recently VR prices have been going up rather than down, as companies move away from the subsidization model. So we'll see.
But recently VR prices have been going up rather than down, as companies move away from the subsidization model. So we'll see.
People were suggesting the cable alone before and that clearly would not work here not to mention it's not even user replaceable because it's got another cable spawning off it. Even ignoring the cable alone, that does not look like a consumer friendly way of detaching the entire band and expecting people to replace it on there own. I don't see any way Sony makes that something the consumer has to undo and replace to make it wireless in that form. Down the line in a revision, maybe, but not as it's currently designed.
