PlayStation VR surpasses 1 million units sold

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PlayStation VR surpasses 1 million units sold - NeoGAF

Sony has now sold more than 1 million PlayStation VR headsets, the company announced today. The news follows a reveal back in February that the PSVR had topped 915,000 units sold since its debut last October.

 

Shawn Layden, president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment America, admits there's still plenty of work to be done, especially given the large install base of PS4 owners, which is approaching 60 million. "It's still just a million units," he says. Layden expects sales to pick up this year in large part because of availability. "We'll have freer supply in the marketplace," he says of 2017. "We got to a point around Christmas where you would be hard-pressed to find VR anywhere. So we dialed back some of our promotional activity at that time because we didn't want to be promoting a platform for people to find out they couldn't get it. I didn't want to create more unhappy customers."

 

According to Sony, PSVR owners have purchased 5.25 million VR games to date, and play an average of 25 minutes per session.

 

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/5/15...es-one-million
 

[SWORDF1SH]

That's a good figure. I expect heavier promoting and a price cut with some big games supporting it to keep up the momentum through 2017 and into 2018

[Xevross]

Not bad, not bad at all.

I wonder if they were expecting more.

[Mmm_fish_tacos]

Not bad, not bad at all.

I wonder if they were expecting more.

I dont think so. I think they expected 2 million the first year.

[the-pi-guy]

I dont think so. I think they expected 2 million the first year.

Superdata was estimating they were going to sell 2.6 million.  
I don't think Sony had any estimates close to that.  

[Xevross]

Yeah estimates were all over the place, but it sounds like it has exceeded Sony's expectations.

[BananaKing]

Considering how supply constrained it is. (From what I understand). It seems that it exceeded their expectations

[the-pi-guy]

This week is also the first time I've seen a PSVR in our store.