Just reaching out to see if this is everyone's experience or if something is seriously wrong on my end. Converting a 720p 20 second sdr video to hdr using Hyperion is giving me a speed of 0.1 fps w/ an estimated processing time of 4h 16m. I can confirm the model's actually running - my Mac's warm to the touch and the fans have kicked in.
I keep going back and forth on this and I want honest opinions, not just “bro it’s amazing you have to try it.”
The hardware is very impressive, I get that. OLED panels, haptic feedback, the Sense controllers. And yes, there are some solid games. Gran Turismo 7, Microsoft Flight Simulator, RE Village, Horizon Call of the Mountain, a handful of others. I’m not dismissing any of that.
But here’s what I can’t get past. Sony halted production on the headset in early 2024 because units weren’t selling. Beat Saber dropped PSVR2 support. First-party studios have basically gone quiet on it. It wasn’t even mentioned at the last State of Play. Push Square ran a whole piece on whether the platform is dead on its third birthday, and one of their own long-time defenders of the headset said he’s been left “disillusioned.” That’s not a great sign.
The library is thin. A lot of what’s on there are ports from Quest or older headsets. The exclusives you can count on one hand. And I’m supposed to drop hundreds of dollars on a headset with no guarantee Sony touches it again in any meaningful way?
I know the PC adapter has opened things up a bit, and if you’re willing to use it as a PCVR headset you arguably get more mileage out of it. But that’s not really what I’m buying a PSVR2 for.
So what’s the actual answer here? If I buy one today, am I buying into something with a real future, or am I buying a very nice piece of hardware that Sony has quietly moved on from? And if it’s the latter, I’d rather just know that upfront instead of getting the “there are great games on it!” response that sidesteps the real question.