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