Sony has been a pretty big player and investor in VR and 3D headsets and displays for decades, so they have a lot of patents compared to relative newcomers like Meta. This will surely shrink the innovation pool.
To sell now means they just don’t see VR tech as being profitable over any meaningful timeframe, but I know it comes as part of a wider ‘exit from hardware’ Sony is doing… maybe VR will prove profitable medium term for others, but I see Meta has burned $19bil last year on VR and isn’t expecting profit any year soon, at about a 20:1 burn rate… So who knows.
Pretty sure big tech has lost the plot and Sony is activating parachute mode while there’s still cash on offer.
Feels like Sony has gone full “bean counter” mode in the last year or so. Maybe because of the AI bubble and the general state of the economy, but could also be due to changes in leadership.
I think it’s because of the multiple very public massive failures this generation. They wasted a shit ton of money on live service failures. This hasn’t been a particular good generation for PlayStation imo. I hate to see it but at this point I wasn’t going to buy a PS6 even before all this recent bullshit.
they sold their TV products to TCL, which was the bread and butter to them for decades.
The company shareholders are enjoying its slow death, with the usual cash grab on high sale value and peak profits for them then “fuck the sony workers” approach.
Sony is sorta like Ubisoft, they made great things in the past but now seem determined to disappoint their customers.
Didn’t Walmart buy TCL?
No its a public and state owned Chinese company, who actually have factories in 30 countries around the globe.
I was confused. Walmart bought Vizio.
I miss how nice their Sony Vaio laptops looked, and the swappable faceplates. I hate that everything now is plastic black, matte black, or white.
I knew this thing was going to flop. It was the same thing with PSVR1, they marketed the shit out of it, released it and then one year later it was basically already forgotten about.
I remember commenting on Reddit at PSVR2 release that I wasn’t falling for it again, and got called a fucking idiot and told I didn’t know what I was talking about blah blah blah. Then they just literally did the same thing again. Like PSVR1. Like Vita. Like their proprietary headphones. Like PS Move. Like PSP (which was a banger). Like PS5 arguably.
The walkman never left the minds of their electronics and computing division. Build it and others support the ecosystem that makes it worth buying, rack in on peripherals.
Meta: Where VR goes to die.
Another reason to hate Sony.
Holy fucking yuck.
Every Sony vr gamer just paid for another 20 years of meta mind control.
One less competitor :(
