Sony has quietly pulled the PlayStation VR2 from its own online store in the US and Japan, and according to Road to VR, the headset is now hard to find at US retailers outside of resellers charging well over the original price.
Sony hasn’t said a word about it, but for anyone who plays Gran Turismo 7 in VR, the writing on the wall is getting hard to ignore.
What Happened
Road to VR noticed the headset had gone missing from PlayStation Direct in the US and Japan, and its tracking suggests the delisting started back in mid-October. The same report found the headset still listed in the UK and EU, so this isn’t global yet.
In the US, though, the old product page now returns an error rather than an “out of stock” notice, and Road to VR reports depleted stock at Amazon and marked-up marketplace listings at Best Buy and Walmart.
Sony hasn’t confirmed anything, and it’s always possible this is a supply hiccup rather than the end of the road. However, Bloomberg reported a production pause in early 2024 to clear unsold inventory, and nothing indicates it has ever resumed.
The permanent cut to $399.99 in March 2025 and the PC adapter in 2024 were both welcome bright spots, but it is becoming clear that neither resulted in a significant turnaround for the peripheral.
Why This Matters for Gran Turismo
GTPlanet has followed PSVR2 closely since the beginning.
I was one of the first people to play GT7 on the headset before it launched, Kazunori Yamauchi told me the game had been built for it from day one, and our full review came away with me convinced.
Nearly four years later I still think it’s the most transformative thing to happen to the Gran Turismo experience, and the GT7 & PSVR2 thread in our forums, now past 7,000 replies and 1.1 million views, is full of people who can’t imagine going back to a flat screen.
Having said that, the VR mode hasn’t evolved much.
Polyphony Digital shipped it as a remarkably complete feature in February 2023, and a substantial upgrade came with Update 1.54’s PS5 Pro enhancements in late 2024, which improved image quality and motion enough that I didn’t want to go back to a standard PS5.
Beyond that, the HUD limitations players flagged in the first month are still there, and players have reported stuttering at the newly added Sugo circuit, particularly in crowded opening laps.
Many had optimistically assumed a PSVR3 would arrive alongside the next PlayStation and pick up where this one left off. That assumption is harder to hold onto when the current headset is disappearing from shelves and there’s no sign of a successor.
What Comes Next?
The best case is that PSVR2 keeps working on the next console and a future Gran Turismo supports it the way GT7 does. The worst case is that Sony abandons VR on PlayStation, and Polyphony Digital, which has only ever built VR around Sony’s own hardware, follows.
Head over to the GT7 & PSVR2 thread to share how you’re thinking about it.
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