This month is looking like an ideal time for PlayStation 4 owners in the market for a PlayStation VR headset to finally pick one up. Sony is bringing back some steep discounts on the standalone headset and various bundles, bringing their respective prices as low as they've ever gone.

These new promotions began in the United States on February 18 and see the cheapest option sell for $200, rather than the usual $300. The PlayStation Blog suggests this may just be the standalone headset (which doesn't come with the required PS4 camera). However, the official PlayStation websiteshows that it may also include the Gran Turismo Sport bundle, which gets you the game and camera, but that will require you actually finding a store that has it in stock.

Next cheapest is Doom VFR's bundle, which will go for $300 (down from $400). This packs in a physical copy of Doom VFR in addition to the headset, camera, and the 2.0 demo disc. Alternatively, Skyrim's bundle drops to $350 (from $450) and gets you Skyrim VR, the headset, camera, 2.0 demo disc, and two PlayStation Move controllers. As with a number of other games, Skyrim VR can be played either with the Move controllers or a standard DualShock 4.

These offers will be available until March 3 at participating retailers; according to Sony, these include Best Buy, Walmart, Target, and GameStop. If you're unsure about buying one, check out our comparison of the different VR headsets. You could also wait and hope Sony does another promotion where it sends PSVR demo units to people's homes.

One thing to be aware of is that Sony introduced a small revamp of PSVRlast year, allowing HDR passthrough with the breakout box and making other refinements. For more help in deciding which unit is right for you, check out our Doom VFR review and thoughts on Skyrim VR.

That $60 yearly membership to PS Plus is definitely paying off for US-based PSVR owners this time around, as this next batch of discounts is putting over 100 PSVR items on sale including games and DLC. The sale lasts until February 27th

Notable titles coming in hot with at least 70% off are DiRT Rally Plus, Eagle Flight, Werewolves Within, I Expect You to Die, Windlands, Thumper, and Until Dawn: Rush of Blood.

You’ll also find plenty of sub-$10 games worth considering including Darknet, Pinball FX2 VR, Statik, The Brookhaven Experiment, and Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.

Don’t own a PSVR headset yet? Hardware bundles with everything you need are $100 off until March 3rd.

Next PlayStation Is Three Years Off, Sony Says

Company will spend the time preparing to ‘jump higher in the future,’ says head of videogame unit

May 23, 2018 5:30 a.m. ET

TOKYO—Don’t hold your breath for the fifth-generation PlayStation.

Sony Corp. wants to spend three more years readying its next videogame move, the head of the PlayStation business said Wednesday. That would mark a slight slowdown in the six-to-seven-year update cycle for the console since the first one in 1994. The PlayStation 4 went on sale in 2013 and has sold more than 79 million units.

“We will use the next three years to prepare the next step, to crouch down so that we can jump higher in the future,” said Tsuyoshi “John” Kodera, who took over last October.

Sony has been shifting its PlayStation focus from hardware to online subscription services, including a $60 annual package that includes games and multiplayer features. That service, PlayStation Plus, had 34 million users as of March, fitting the new CEO’s goal of adding revenue sources that are more stable than volatile hardware and software sales.

Speaking to a small group of reporters, Mr. Kodera said the network-services side of PlayStation is changing the way Sony thinks about product introductions.

“We need to depart from the traditional way of looking at the console life cycle,” he said. “We’re no longer in a time when you can think just about the console or just about the network like they’re two different things.”

Mr. Kodera said the company is looking at ways to better incorporate mobility into the PlayStation, traditionally a living-room console. Nintendo Co.’s popular Switch machine can be used both in the home and as a portable device.

Sony sells the hand-held PlayStation Vita, but Mr. Kodera said that when it comes to mobility, the company doesn’t want to limit itself to a single dedicated device. “We need a broader perspective than that because so many things are now connected via the internet,” he said.

One challenge for Sony is competing against companies with broader subscription offerings in entertainment, such as Amazon.com Inc. and Netflix Inc.

Mr. Yoshida, the CEO, said in a separate group interview that PlayStation’s subscription services provide valuable consumer-spending data. He said PlayStation Vue, an internet television service in the U.S. that has struggled to match Amazon and Netflix, is bringing in useful user data and Sony had no plans to shut it down.

PlayStation's Days of Plays 2018 kicks off today and runs through June 18. For only 11 days, you'll find the best discounts all on hardware, games, peripherals, and subscriptions. There is also limited edition blue and gold themed PlayStation 4 Slim console that makes its debut, and will lost likely discontinue shortly after the event. Check out all the deals below.

I will update this post in realtime as more products and games drop and price and other online vendors match the discounts so check back!

Sony cuts PlayStation Now cloud video game service price in half to $9.99 monthly

Oct 1, 2019

Been thinking of giving Sony's PlayStation Now cloud gaming service a spin? Now you have even more reasons.

For starters, the video game maker is reducing the price of the subscription service to $9.99, down from the previous monthly charge of $19.99. You can also subscribe annually for $59.99, down from the original $99.99.

And to sweeten the deal, Sony has just added a quintet of popular PlayStation 4 games to PlayStation Now: "God of War, "Grand Theft Auto V, "inFAMOUS Second Son," and "Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End."

This is the first wave of new featured content Sony plans to bring to PlayStation Now. These releases can be played until January 2, 2020.

PlayStation Now is currently stocked with more than 800 games – hundreds of PlayStation 2, PS3 and PS4 games that can be streamed on the PS4 or on PC devices. And more than 300 PS4 games can be downloaded onto subscribers' PS4 consoles.

Sony's move comes as the entrants in cloud and online subscription game services is crescendoing. Last week, Apple launched its Apple Arcade service ($4.99 monthly) for iPhone and iPod Touch with more than 70 games, and Google started its Google Play Pass ($4.99/month) with more than 350 games and apps for Android phones, tablets and Chromebooks.

Coming next month: Google's Stadia cloud gaming service, which streams console-quality games to your TV, computer or Pixel phone. And Microsoft is expected to begin public testing of its Project xCloud game-streaming service this year, too.

PlayStation Now – not to be confused with Sony's PlayStation Plus service ($9.99 monthly) which gets you online gaming access, discounts and free games – has been around for more than five years.


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Next PlayStation Is Three Years Off, Sony Says

He said PlayStation Vue, an internet television service in the U.S. that has struggled to match Amazon and Netflix, is bringing in useful user data and Sony had no plans to shut it down.