Oculus Rift available for preorder for $599.99, shipping in March

LiK said:
*dead*

https://twitter.com/notch/status/684832922197737472
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Still cant afford a rift :)
ChaoticBlue said:
most of GAF buys overpriced graphics cards and gaming PCs and that's expensive?

smh.
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That price = a decent pc
That price = a ps4 and a bunch of games
That price is steep in the US.
That price is
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in the EU
 
I ordered it and the price was a lot steeper than I thought, 700€ + shipping.

I've been waiting for it for years so I won't let the price stop me, but wow.
Getting it in May according to the order, hopefully sooner.
 
blastprocessor said:
ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE DOLLARS! (*)

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(*) the new five hundred and ninty nine dollars!
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>normal people.

Haha.

Looking at it objectively, there is a lot that costs $1500 that is not really worth $1500.

A system that can play all the latest games at very high settings, + VR is probably worth it compared to many things.

They just messed up with all the "we want to make it affordable for more casual adopters" PR a while back. In fact, I haven't seen a U-turn this dramatic ever before in a product's marketing history.

The tin-hat in me wonders if the controversy this is causing was intentional. There's no way this would blow up as much as it would on the internet without all this outrage, and the outrage ensures even people who weren't interested in any of it before, notices the product and the company. If there's any truth to that "any publicity is good publicity" saying, then this is adopting that idea to the extreme.

Whatever the case, if they confirmed the price a while back to let it sink in, there's no doubt that this wouldn't be the shit storm it is now.
 
Megatron said:
Sadly , its probably not under 499 quid.
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I genuinely cannot find a solid source on the cost of getting this in the UK. If it was just over £300 I'd be down with placing a pre-order but I've seen people throw the £500 mark around. They don't seem to have a clue how they're handling taxes and there still doesn't seem to be a route to a GB store.

I might just be really dumb and somehow still unable to find my way to the UK webstore but honestly I'm starting to sour on it really heavily since I can't even find a country switcher on their site and changing the URL to the typical ones isn't working out. Usually it's ScriptBlocker causing issues like that but I'm pretty sure I unblocked all scripts on their page and I still can't find a way to get a solid price for the UK.
 
Any word for those of us that haven't received a confirmation email? I sent a request to support but god knows when they'll get through that queue today.
 
Helznicht said:
I kinda feel all the pack-in stuff was so they have room to move after the competition announces pricing. If undercut in price by Vive, or greatly by PSVR, the light-weight skews will get announced.

No Controller needed: -$50
Don't want pack in games? -$50
Don't want Remote? -$50

Right now they can price whatever they want as there is no current competitor. Crappy for us, great business move.
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I bet the pack-in items are at little to no cost to Oculus themselves. Its there as advertising from the companies and to make the package price more palatable.
 
Liamc723 said:
CDs, DVDs and HD TVs were all iterations on something the general public already knew and understood. While they were expensive, people knew what they were getting and they were safe buys. CDs were the next step from tapes, DVDs were the next step from video tapes, and HD TV was the next step from SD TV. People had gone through these upgrades before.

VR is an unproven accessory that has no proof of the potential to succeed.
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If I told you what I paid for my first pager.... this would still seem cheap
 
So 499 dollars Occulus Rift and at least 1000 dollar PC is the barrier to entry for VR on PC?

This is DOA

Oh and being from Europe = 100% DOA

As usual, it will be up to Sony to push technology into the mainstream
 
UpDownLeftRight said:
I genuinely cannot find a solid source on the cost of getting this in the UK. If it was just over £300 I'd be down with placing a pre-order but I've seen people throw the £500 mark around. They don't seem to have a clue how they're handling taxes and there still doesn't seem to be a route to a GB store.
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Go to the Oculus Store.

Put your country address as UK.

Scroll back up to see the price in GBP (spoiler: it's £500 plus shipping)
 
Cutwolf said:
Exactly this, with the caveat that they could still be taking a significant loss and this is the lowest they could go.

Still, with the backing of Facebook's coffers, I'd have taken the loss on the hardware and done everything I could to get it down to $299-$399, and bank on making up for it on peripherals and software.

$600 screams to me either:

1. This thing is way too expensive to produce to make a mass market friendly price; or
2. They don't trust the long term adoption rate and are not confident in their ability to monetize peripherals and software; or
3. They just got impatient, and wanted to produce something that is immediately profitable.
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4. They want a more gentle adoption curve. Explosive sales can actually hurt a new platform because there isn't enough good content for the user base. The Kinect is a great example of this. It went from fastest selling consumer electronic device to completely dead in one generation.
 
FuturusX said:
EVE okay cool. That's a MMO right? Any single player experiences?
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EVE Valkyrie is an arcade-style multiplayer space shooter. Think quick dogfight rounds. It comes free with the Rift.

There's also Elite Dangerous which I'm personally looking forward to most.
 
FuturusX said:
EVE okay cool. That's a MMO right? Any single player experiences?
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It's not EVE the MMO, it's an EVE-branded in-ship dogfighting game. Think it's both single and multiplayer.

Stuff like Elite: Dangerous and a few higher-end racing games should be a pretty good launch lineup for the enthusiasts this is marketed towards.
 
Memorabilia said:
I mis-typed "smart phone" when I meant to say "cell phone", which I definitely think drives home the point: Portable cell phones had a universal and obvious appeal right away that overcame exhorbitant price for the most part, even with crazy bag-phone and brick phone form-factors. I still remember my pops carrying one of those things around for work. EVERYONE wanted one. Companies snapped em up by the millions for their work forces to increase productivity and keep people connected. This happened way before "smart phones". Smart phones were merely the latest iteration that expanded the application of a device with already existing demand that was off the charts. Basically, cell phone adoption was rapid because allowing people to talk while on the move... whether for business, pleasure, or emergency...is a "universal" application. Not so with VR.
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They didn't though. That's revionist. Cell phones and smart phones did not have widespread mainstream adoption right out of the gate. Not even close.
 
Stiler said:
Dev kits were 300, Oculus said time and again "we are aiming about 350'ish for the consumer launch."

So yeah, we TOTALLY should have expected almost DOUBLE (if not a lot more if you are out of country).
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I'll probably be selling mine for $350 in about a year, so hang in there.
 
Man, the audience for this thing is far smaller than I ever anticipated. You have this ridiculous price on top of needing a serious PC, coupled with the fact that there's a lot of competition right around the corner; something has got to give. I can't see it maintaining this price point for very long.

It's almost comedic how poorly the Oculus is positioned right now. How can it possibly compete with something like PSVR? Even if you ignore the horrible price point, Sony seems to have the most compelling VR software. I recall hearing multiple impressions from people who have tried a bunch of different VR solutions at conventions, such as from Boogie2988, who've been most impressed by Sony's offerings.

Edit: Didn't they suggest that the price wouldn't be more than $400?
 
UpDownLeftRight said:
I genuinely cannot find a solid source on the cost of getting this in the UK. If it was just over £300 I'd be down with placing a pre-order but I've seen people throw the £500 mark around. They don't seem to have a clue how they're handling taxes and there still doesn't seem to be a route to a GB store.

I might just be really dumb and somehow still unable to find my way to the UK webstore but honestly I'm starting to sour on it really heavily since I can't even find a country switcher on their site and changing the URL to the typical ones isn't working out. Usually it's ScriptBlocker causing issues like that but I'm pretty sure I unblocked all scripts on their page and I still can't find a way to get a solid price for the UK.
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Go to the main store and go through pre-order and hit the checkout button, choosing to log in or checkout as a guest. On the next page you out your details and you can change the default country from US to UK or others. When you do that the price changes accordingly.

£499 + £30 shipping. That's how much you'll pay. They will ship from within Europe like DK1 and DK2 did - no import duty to pay.
 
UpDownLeftRight said:
I genuinely cannot find a solid source on the cost of getting this in the UK. If it was just over £300 I'd be down with placing a pre-order but I've seen people throw the £500 mark around. They don't seem to have a clue how they're handling taxes and there still doesn't seem to be a route to a GB store.

I might just be really dumb and somehow still unable to find my way to the UK webstore but honestly I'm starting to sour on it really heavily since I can't even find a country switcher on their site and changing the URL to the typical ones isn't working out. Usually it's ScriptBlocker causing issues like that but I'm pretty sure I unblocked all scripts on their page and I still can't find a way to get a solid price for the UK.
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I had to actually put in my address to get it to display the UK price.

It's £499 without shipping for the record. Shipping is £30 I think.
 
Pre-ordered. 914$ cdn. Then I get an email saying my shipping address could not be verified and is on hold. Problem is address is correct. Anyone else having this issue in Canada?
 
Liamc723 said:
CDs, DVDs and HD TVs were all iterations on something the general public already knew and understood. While they were expensive, people knew what they were getting and they were safe buys. CDs were the next step from tapes, DVDs were the next step from video tapes, and HD TV was the next step from SD TV. People had gone through these upgrades before.

VR is an unproven accessory that has no proof of the potential to succeed.
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Well, exactly. This is precisely the biggest reason why I believe VR has more potential to get off the 'accessory' tag and becomes 'the new/different TV', for example.
CDs, DVDs, BluRays, all of those are different containers for what is the same content.
The content creator had little to no saying in pushing forward the success of these things. If I was a movie director, I would shoot my movie in 35mm or 4k RED. Then, it gets scaled based on the medium that can carry it - basically becomes a publisher's decision. See how Bluray, as technically impressive as it might be, hasn't taken off like DVD. Not because of costs, but because the exact same content is now available in streaming for a fraction of the cost and you don't need to get off the couch to consume it. Well the movie might not be 4k pure, but have you seen how many people complained? Or how many subscriptions does Netflix have? Same with games. Everything will be digital - which brought the DRM nightmare - but theoretically it IS the best way (if you actually *owned* the games)
With VR, you *need* to create different content, because the content that is already there is not good for the medium, it doesn't work the way it was intended to when it was created.
Once there are experiences that you *cannot* have on a 80'' 6k curved 3D smart TV or IMAX cinema, then people will be pushed to get onto VR.
If the experiences appeal to them, of course. But that's up to us who are the developers. Which is awesome, since the mediums with which VR is being compared to, never had the same possibility - or, as some are seeing it, problem ;)
 
I haven't really been following the VR for PCs. What is the expected hardware requirements for a good VR experience? I think I heard through osmosis that most people don't even have PCs capable of doing VR.
 
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