While aboriginal impressions of the PSVR2 praise a wide assortment of features, arsenic good arsenic the wide prime of the experience, 1 diagnostic that won’t beryllium making it to Sony’s caller PS5-exclusive headset is backwards compatibility. The company’s VR titles from the past procreation volition beryllium staying there.

In the astir recent occurrence of the Official PlayStation podcast, Hideaki Nishino, elder vice president of level acquisition astatine PlayStation, talked astir the standout features and improvement saga of designing and gathering the caller VR headset for the PS5. Asked straight astir whether last-gen VR titles would beryllium playable connected the caller headset, Nishino stated that “PSVR games are not compatible with PSVR2 due to the fact that PSVR2 is designed to present a genuinely adjacent procreation VR experience.”

Nishino highlighted the precocious diagnostic acceptable of the PSVR2 arsenic the evident crushed for this, specifically the haptic-feedback-ready controllers, with adaptive triggers, arsenic good arsenic inside-out tracking, and oculus tracking, among others. “Developing games for PSVR2,” Nishino said, “requires a full antithetic attack than the archetypal PSVR.”

To beryllium honest, I’d conflict to sanction adjacent half-a-dozen memorable titles connected the archetypal PSVR. But there’s nary denying that this is benignant of a bummer, particularly erstwhile these games are apt to beryllium known for having lone appeared for a constricted clip connected specified circumstantial hardware. While it seems similar the bigger titles, specified arsenic Resident Evil 7, volition get afloat PSVR2 support, games similar Robinson: The Journey oregon Golem hazard getting mislaid to clip if they don’t look connected different VR platforms.

If you’ve been pursuing on with the saga of backwards compatibility connected PlayStation platforms, thing which Xbox has precise thoroughly delivered on, possibly this won’t astonishment you. Hopefully those forgotten PSVR classics, immoderate they really are, find a mode disconnected the land of misfit Sony experiments.