Playstation VR 2 probably has around 50,000 PC users
The latest SteamVR stats indicate how many Playstation VR 2s are being used on PC.
In August, Sony released a PC adapter for the Playstation VR 2, allowing it to be used as a SteamVR headset on a PC.
Valve's monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey now shows that the headset was the 9th most used SteamVR headset in September 2024.
About 2.4 percent of all PC VR headsets tracked by Valve were Playstation VR 2. Valve puts the number of Steam users with VR headsets at 1.6 percent (as of September 2024). Assuming Steam has about 130 million monthly users, 2.4 percent equates to just over 50,000 PSVR 2s being used on PC.
The VR headset was already included in the August statistics. However, the percentage at that time was not representative because many users participated in the survey at the beginning of the month and the PC adapter was not released until August 7.
While Playstation VR 2 gained 2 percentage points in September, Quest 2 lost about 2 percentage points. This suggests that a significant number of Quest 2 users switched to Playstation VR 2 as their PC VR headset of choice. They either already owned a Playstation VR 2 or purchased one to use on their PC. The SteamVR stats do not show whether the PC adapter boosted sales of the PSVR 2.
SteamVR statistics of the most used PC VR headsets in September 2024 | Image: Valve
In any case, the PC adapter is unlikely to have attracted a large number of new users to Sony's ecosystem, as a Capcom statistic indicates. MIXED noted that 127,000 players had played the PSVR 2 version of Resident Evil 4 (a PS5 exclusive) at the end of July 2024; at the beginning of October, this figure is barely higher at 138,000.
What are Valve's SteamVR statistics?
SteamVR is the largest PC VR platform by far. The screenshot above is taken from Valve's monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey. It includes all VR headsets that were connected to PCs with Steam installed that month and whose users participated in Valve's survey.
The statistic allows conclusions about the relative distribution of PC VR headsets among each other, but does not capture devices that are used exclusively in standalone mode.
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