Ensuring a more streamlined experience.
The original PSVR, impressive as it was, felt a little tacked on to the PS4 experience. There were many incongruences, the most notable being the exemption of HDR passthrough in the original breakout box – at a time when Sony was really promoting the emerging television technology. In fact, the existence of the breakout box itself was a demonstration of just how disconnected it felt to the core console, resulting in a spaghetti of cables that ultimately became miserable to manage.
PSVR2 will avoid that issue, as the headset has been built and designed in parallel with the PS5, according to Sony’s senior vice president of platform experience Hideaki Nishino. Speaking with Famitsu, he confirmed that while the headset was developed by a different team, they worked in parallel with the people responsible for the console to ensure a streamlined experience overall. That expands to the setup, which will require just a single cable running to the front of the new-gen machine.
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