Virtual reality has divided the world in two. The first team included skeptics who do not believe in the success of the new technology and predict its sad fate in the coming years, and the second team, on the contrary, believes in the cloudless future of VR and the fact that one day virtual reality will be accessible to everyone. Personally, I refer myself to the latter and see VR as a huge potential. However, as it turned out, even the manufacturers of top-end VR headsets did not believe in the success of the project.
In a recent interview with New York Times, the president of Sony Interactive Entertainment Andrew House, answering questions from journalists, first disclosed the data on sales of the PlayStation VR. Previously, Sony did not disclose this information, apparently considering that there is nothing to brag about yet. Unexpectedly, it turned out that the situation for the Japanese technological giant is even better than expected. So, in the four months since the start of sales, only 915,000 devices have been sold worldwide (as of February 19).
Here it should be noted that Sony could sell a significantly larger number of sets, if it was allowed to production capacity. In many countries there is still an acute shortage of PlayStation VR in stores. And the company's management understands that it is necessary to do something about it. Andrew House assured reporters that the situation should change by the beginning of April this year, and Sony is now actively increasing production of PlayStation VR in its new plants.
"In Japan, we see a sad situation when people line up in huge queues in front of shops, hearing that they are about to bring a new batch of devices," House described the situation in the Land of the Rising Sun, where he lives and works at the moment.
It was also found out that the management of the Japanese company was very cautious about the future of this technology, trying not to fall prey to excessive optimism. Analysts predicted Sony VR-headset 1 million boxes sold only by mid-April (six months after the start of sales), but as we can see, sales are even slightly ahead of schedule, and the mark of 1 million will be overcome much earlier. Given that the PlayStation 4 is sold as hot cakes, it will offer PlayStation VR a very wide audience of users.
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