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Oculus Rift available for preorder for $599.99, shipping in March
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therealminime
Member
You almost definitely will get hit with other taxes and duty costs upon arrival. My DK2 had another $150 or something upon arrival.
silvermember
Banned
People are saying Oculus is doomed not that VR is doomed. Why can't you get that through your head.
irrotational
Member
Megalosaro
Banned
Price should have been 200 IMHO. But I'll probably still buy it
What was the price you could get it at with Kickstarter backing ?
Triggerhappytel
Member
Well, Sony are open to selling at a loss, so who knows what they're planning. If they go $300 then they've probably killed the Rift stone dead besides a very niche audience. If they go $400 I think they'll be laughing all the way to the bank. If they go $500 that will seem fairly comparable to the pricing of the Rift, given that I'm assuming the Rift has quite a bit more going on in terms of tech.
I think anything under $400 though and Sony have got this in the bag. The only problem comes in when people need the PS Move wands and the PS4 Eye camera, which again bumps the price up by a notable degree.
Dusktildawn48
Member
weird, i have the order on their site, but no email
KINGofCRA5H
Member
yoooo
NightShift
Member
Gonna have to go out and buy some popcorn.
Will this be updated when sony announces a similar price?
John Rabbit
Banned
except orders are already posting later ship dates, which highly suggests they've already run through the initial stock they had ready to ship in March.
Indeed. the $599 US does not include taxes.
except gaming was already a thing, VR is brand new... for devs to make stuff for it, you need an audience/you need to make money. A percentage of people won't buy it because VR makes them sick, and out of the remaining percentage of people, only a small percentage will actually be willing to buy a $600 headset. Horrible pricing.
nah i'm with you dude. i really think smartphones (with their subsidized costs) have seriously messed up people's perception of value.
(btw, guess how much the original iphone cost? that's right: $599. and that's not even including the cost of the mandatory 2 year contract)
i mean, i get it, i can't afford one right now either. not all of us get to be early adopters. but it's especially important that VR get the user experience right out of the gate, because it's working to overcome a pretty bleak history. $599 for a solid experience is better than $299 for junk that's DOA. as with most gen 1 tech the user base is going to be smaller due to cost. but the hope is that those users fall in love with the device and proselytize it to everyone else for gen 2/3, when costs fall to levels appropriate for mass adoption. this is a normal, predictable arc.
you're all going to get your solid $199 VR experience but it's just not going to happen in 2016.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
I'll be waiting then, or seeing what the competition has to offer. I would rather get Pascal first.
blackMamba1187
Member
$600 is too expensive, but I put in the order anyways. Maybe I'll find some reason to keep it come April. ugh, I am weak!
GIANKRATOS
Member
Dawnbuster
Member
I have dozens of authorizations that popped on my Apple Pay notification before my card finally went through. Showed March 2016 delivery when it did though, so I guess it kept my place in line despite all the checkout issues.
+ 19% EUSt. ;-)
This is honestly the main reason I would cancel my preorder. If I'm going all in, I might as well go ALL IN and get whatever is "best".
Vyse The Legend
Member
It will absolutely be less expensive. The only question is by how much.
Sony is using more off-the-shelf parts; Oculus opted for custom materials.
Sony already has supply chains in place for many of the parts that they are likely to use in the PS VR. For example, the screens are likely what they use for their phones, etc. They also have manufacturing down.
The only X factor for Sony is that it does require a separate processing unit, and that will raise costs. So, I could see anywhere from $400 (long shot) to 500 (more likely).
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Did you actually get this confirmation e-mail? I didn't.
I'm hoping enough people that were lucky enough to have their order go through without error to back out so I get in the first shipping wave.
Liamario
Banned
If I sell two bottle taped together likes glasses, sell them for 200€, does that makes them a prestige product? Secondly, if they are then a prestige product, is the price justified?
Just to clarify, just because something is priced at $500, it doesn't mean it's worth that price. Calling it a prestige product sounds like terminology, the purpose of which is to justify a price.
Pocky4Th3Win
Member
Price is nuts. This is going to sell poorly as hell. The high price JUST for the headset along with the high system requirements makes it a very limited market. I wonder how much the controllers will cost now...
At that price, I expect the Vive to be at $799 (cost of controllers), while Sony's offering will be $399. Sony will be selling their headset at a loss, but not too steep of one.
That's damn good.
That's damn good.
300.
No people won't buy this. Most people don't even have a system capable of running this. It does not compare in any way to an iphone which while it costs $1k it runs self sufficient, also it is a PHONE which is something everyone needs and uses. VR is hardly something people can live without.
I make over 6 figures and buy most every electronic that comes out and even I went "lol nope" at that price because there is nothing that justifies it, if you think some average joe is going to drop that kinda money on it I have a bridge to sell you.
No, lol not everyone was thinking they needed a smartphone at the time the first Iphone came out everyone had a lanline or a cheap phone that they were fine with. Its gonna be the same way here. Technology is expensive at first thats just how it is.
Have you ever tried the Oculus? me and my gf are getting ONE and splitting it so 300 each is not bad at all for us to share it and have fun. We really liked it when trying it at PAX
ShinMaruku
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KnightHart
Member
Not in Canada. And we can still get hit with duty fees at the border.
Gonna wait to see if it ends up at Best Buy or some shit
viveks86
Member
It was showing April 12 minutes after they opened it up. Seems real sketchy from where I stand
Stiler
Member
300.
The difference is the fact that VR is going to live and die by its software, and software developers aren't going to support a peripheral out of the bottom of their heart. There's going to have to be a viable install base to make it worth their while. A closer comparison would be 3D within the home market.
The Silver
Member
Was crazy Ken the higher power all along?
This meltdown right now is funny to me. I'll enjoy that meltdown as well. I can tell there are many young ones on the board who had a lot of hopes and dreams...seeing it being shattered to the realities of the world...priceless.
every time something has a US price and then the EU/UK price comes out we have the same old complaints!