In an interview at his Silicon Valley office on Friday, Mr. House revealed PlayStation VR’s sales for the first time,<br />saying consumers had purchased 915,000 of the headsets as of Feb. 19, roughly four months after it went on sale.<br />So when Sony needed to decide how many of its virtual reality headsets to manufacture,<br />Mr. House was among those inside the company advising that Sony make fewer of them.<br />Sony enjoyed advantages as it entered the market because its headset is sold as an add-on to its game<br />console, PlayStation 4, more than 53 million of which had been sold by the start of January.<br />“You literally have people lining up outside stores when they know stock is being replenished,”<br />said Mr. House, describing the scene in Japan, one of the largest games markets.
