The Vision Pro could soon support Sony PSVR2 controllers, according to Mark Gurman in today’s day To light up newsletter for Bloomberg. Apple and Sony had apparently planned to announce support for the controllers “weeks ago” but pushed back the rollout. As part of the partnership, Apple would begin selling Sony’s controllers, which are currently not available on their own.

Sony has apparently been working on adding this support for months, while Apple has asked third-party developers if they would benefit from Sony’s VR controllers. This is potentially great news for Vision Pro owners who want the headset to have more gaming features. (There are few good native VisionOS games – Thrasher, a fascinating game where you launch a giant worm/dragon into a psychadelic space using only hand movements comes to mind.)

Gurman writes that Apple also wants to use the controllers for things other than gaming: the controllers will be able to navigate visionOS and would offer more precise controls in apps like Final Cut Pro and Adobe Photoshop. Right now, you can pair a standard Bluetooth controller and navigate visionOS – pressing buttons to select items, scrolling with the analog sticks, etc. They work for gaming too, but you’re mostly limited to iPad and iPhone games with controller support or emulators made for iOS or the native Virtual Boy one.

Will this partnership bear fruit and actually allow games to thrive on the platform? I’m not immediately hopeful, given Vision Pro’s sales and Apple’s track record of support from game publishers.

Still, the Vision Pro is fundamentally different from other Apple devices, and virtual reality is its own landscape. And there are signs that the community wants it, with at least one Fully funded Kickstarter project to develop Meta Quest 3 style controllers, called Surreal Touch, for the Vision Pro. Maybe the Vision Pro will get some great VR games – whether anyone will be around to buy them is another question entirely.