Sony has an adapter to make PSVR2 work on PC.
As shared on Twitter by EOZ product manager Brad Lynch, the PSVR2 PC adapter was just certified in Korea by that country’s National Radio Research Agency.
Brad shared the link to his source on the National Radio Research Agency page, but it’s in Hangul. We will check back on Brad’s translation of the certification to get more details on the product.
The adapter received the model name CFI-ZVP1, and we’re likely to see this name come up in the box for the adapter itself. The manufacturer is registered as Sony Interactive Entertainment Korea, but it also states that the actual manufacturing is happening in China. Lastly, the certification was already done last March, and they only published it to the public today.
So, if Sony isn’t quite ready to release this product to the market, they may be preparing to announce it soon. They may have a good opportunity to make this announcement, since there’s a rumor going around that Sony has a PlayStation Showcase event scheduled to come out before this month ends.
Sony launched PSVR 2 last February of 2023. Although Sony had sold their PlayStation VR initiative to investors and consumers as an opportunity to get into the market early, and that they had been uniquely successful compared to other VR companies, the product has not been doing well.
In March 2023, reports came out that Sony was able to sell only 270,000 units at that point. In October of that same year, PSVR 2 faced its first price cut. And then in March of this year, rumors emerged that Sony quietly stopped manufacturing of PSVR 2, because unsold inventory of the device was now piling up in Sony’s warehouses.
Not only is PSVR 2 faring poorly in the present, the reasons Sony wanted to get into VR may have also been rendered obsolete. Meta and Sony were all expecting mass adoption of VR technology, eventually leading to the formation of a metaverse for these players.
The introduction of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite seems to have dispelled this idea immediately. Microsoft’s big announcement for their own Co-Pilot Surface products has immediately put the spotlight on AI, and especially the new neural processing unit in these chips looks like the new frontier for emerging technology.
And with that, the possibility that we’ll be seeing that metaverse someday seems as remote and unlikely as it could possibly be. On top of Sony’s failure to make the product a success as it is, changing market conditions may have also changed the company itself.
As a result, Sony is already preparing to offload them as a PC compatible device. Based on all this, it’s entirely possible that Sony will allow PSVR2 to play games outside of the company’s own storefront, maybe even games on other stores.
