PlayStation VR sales crushing Oculus Rift and HTC Vive

Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR

I love posting shocking news and here’s one that’s truly shocking – if your platform is far more expensive than the competitors and there isn’t a ton of content, it won’t sell all that well. Most of you likely already know this but PS VR costs just $399 and requires PS4 which comes in at $299. As for the competition, besides needing a PC rig that costs north of $1,000, you still need to buy the headsets which will set you back another $800. But costs and much more complicated setup aside, content is king and PS VR offers an easily delivered platform to consumers and one that they’ve been accustomed to since PS3.

With that as the backdrop, as Ben Gilbert from Business Insider writes, PS VR is crushing the competition with projected sales for the year coming in at

  • Sony’s PlayStation VR — 745,434
  • HTC Vive — 450,083
  • Facebook’s Oculus Rift 355,088

Now it’s worth taking into account that Rift arrived in March and, soon after, the Vive in April, while PS VR didn’t launch till October so expect the gap to be far more dramatic come next year. Do you think Sony can sell two million PlayStation VR headsets by the end of 2017?