These numbers are bullshit because they can't know the sales of a product in Amazon, so can't compare them other than seeing if a product is higher or lower in Amazon's ranking for a category.
Quest Massively Outsold PSVR 2 Over the 2023 Holiday
Judging by sales volume on Amazon, Quest 2 & Quest 3 massively outsold PSVR 2 during the 2023 holiday season. Tracking Quest 2, Quest 3, and PSVR 2 sales volume on Amazon US gives strong evidence that Quest headsets did quite well this holiday season, while PSVR 2 saw concerningly low sales...www.roadtovr.com
Judging by sales volume on Amazon, Quest 2 & Quest 3 massively outsold PSVR 2 during the 2023 holiday season.
Tracking Quest 2, Quest 3, and PSVR 2 sales volume on Amazon US gives strong evidence that Quest headsets did quite well this holiday season, while PSVR 2 saw concerningly low sales. Looking at the numbers over the course of the holiday season shows that for every 1 unit of PSVR 2 sold, Quest sold more than 30 units.
The data compares all capacity variants of Quest 2 & Quest 3 against the standard PSVR 2 retail box and the PSVR 2 + Horizon Call of the Mountain bundle. The original PSVR would be counted but it has been discontinued. No refurbished units were counted.
We can also compare the trend over time by looking at PSVR 2 sales figures as a baseline compared to Quest 2 & Quest 3 sales.
Based on the data we’ve collected we can see that Quest had a pretty good holiday season with Meta selling at least 320,000 headsets on Amazon US alone between November 16th and January 16th. On the other hand, PSVR 2 sold only around 10,500 on Amazon US during that time.
That’s a concerningly low figure for PSVR 2, especially considering that the holiday season tends to be the best selling period for VR headsets. Even if Sony managed to sell PSVR 2 units at the same rate as this holiday for the entire year, it still wouldn’t even be 1/3 of the Quest units sold on Amazon US during this holiday period alone.
Meaning, they can see if a product is top 10 or top 50, but don't have any idea on their sales.
But yes, worldwide (in all places, not only Amazon) Quest sells way more than PSVR (even if the difference isn't that big as shown in the graph).
I did a VR market research for one of the games I'm working on and this is bullshit, maybe this is the reason he deleted it. And he/NPD doesn't cover the Meta Quest store, where most VR games are sold.
There's a consensus between all market analysis firms on saying that the VR market is higher than ever in both revenue and userbase, that it grew in 2023 as did in previous years and all of them expect it to continue growing. I can show many related charts about this.
Regarding PSVR2, Sony shown its launch window numbers and said it was performing as they expected: better than PSVR1. They were happy with the PSVR1 performance, so were happy with PSVR2 performance too.
In VR Quest (mostly Quest 2, now being replaced by Quest 3) is the clear market leader, with PSVR (PSVR1 sales has almost dead, now PSVR2 bumped it) as a distant second.
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The overlap is tiny. Making PSVR2 compatible with PC literally just hands Valve free market share that they didn't have to work for. Maybe when Sony makes enough profit on them they can add PC support, but right now it makes zero sense to. We all know the profit is in the software NOT the hardware.
