It’s true: the PlayStation VR 2 is currently discounted to just £349 in the UK, a massive £180.99 reduction off its original list price, and the Horizon Call of the Mountain bundle has also been reduced to £389.99.
It’s discounted at all major retailers, including Amazon, Currys and Argos, making this an unprecedented price cut – and at the time of writing there’s no sign of a similar discount happening in the US.
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Smyths has reduced the price of the VR headset to £329 (plus £2.99 delivery) for a limited time only, so getting your hands on a PSVR2 just got a little easier, no matter which retailer you’re buying from.
This comes just two weeks before the PSVR2 gets a new lease on life: the VR gaming headset will gain compatibility with Steam VR games in August, including popular titles like Half-Life: Alyx.
As announced on the PlayStation Blog back in June, a PC adapter that will allow you to connect the PSVR2 headset directly to a PC is scheduled to be released on August 7th.
According to both Steam and the PS Blog, the minimum PC requirements are:
Operating System Windows 10 64-bit / Windows 11 64-bit Processor Intel Core i5-7600 / AMD Ryzen 3 3100 (Zen 2 or later architecture required) RAM / Memory 8 GB or more GPU / Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 or later (Turing or later architecture required)NVIDIA RTX SeriesAMD Radeon RX 5500XT or later / AMD Radeon RX 6500XT or later (For best performance, we recommend using NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 or later or AMD Radeon RX 6600XT or later graphics cards) DisplayPort DisplayPort 1.4 (standard DisplayPort or Mini DisplayPort output port required) USB Direct connection only Bluetooth Bluetooth 4.0 or later
Recently, reports have emerged that Sony has temporarily halted production of the PS VR2 due to a buildup of unsold inventory.
Eurogamer’s VR expert Ian Higton criticized Sony for not supporting PS VR2, specifically pointing out that the upcoming Astro Bot game is not a VR title.
