Resident Evil Village VR Mode Director Kazuhiro Takahara instructed UploadVR {that a} “very large majority” of PSVR 2 house owners have tried out Resident Evil Village in VR mode.
In a snippet from an upcoming Q&A to be printed this weekend, we requested Capcom’s Kazuhiro Takahara, Director on Resident Evil Village VR mode, if he may share any indication of how profitable the sport’s VR mode has been or what number of PlayStation VR2 gamers have tried out the mode since launch.
“I can’t share exact numbers,” stated Takahara, “but I have heard that a very large majority of PS VR2 owners have played Resident Evil Village in VR.”
This tracks with what you would possibly anticipate, on condition that Village was one of many headset’s most high-profile launch video games and an present PS5 title that many new PSVR 2 customers might need already owned earlier than getting the headset. That stated, there’s additionally no indication of how lengthy these customers performed for – it’s unlikely all of them completed the marketing campaign and lots of might need simply tried it out in VR mode for an hour or two.
Yesterday, analyst agency IDC (International Data Corporation) instructed that Bloomberg that Sony is “likely” to have sold only around 270,000 PSVR 2 units between launch and the tip of March. That stated, we additionally posed the query of whether or not Sony is just getting started with PSVR 2.
Headset gross sales apart, PSVR 2 launched with a reasonably robust launch lineup and Resident Evil Village was amongst our high picks. In our review, we referred to as it a stunning and engaging horror shooter, praising the intelligent changes made to translate the sport to VR and its satisfying gunplay.
Keep a watch out for our full Q&A with Kazuhiro Takahara later this weekend, the place we talk about the challenges of growing Village’s VR Mode, future plans for the sequence in VR and extra.