Playstation VR

[RiK]

OOF!

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/sci ... lease-Date



CDN$1125 is approx £550...

That's more than I paid for the console *and* the 40" telly I play it on..

[k345y]

I doubt that will be the retail price when on general release.....unless you're holding something back

What's more worrying is having to pay for those shitty looking glow globe controller Wii copy things if they're needed...they're just shit looking

[Jamesac]

I see the PS Move controllers on sale for $8. They're not a bad controller, honestly. Simple but effective, so long as you don't need to use too many of the smaller buttons.

[Chontler]

You can get the weird move controllers for a fiver as no one bought any ever. But don't forget the extra 50 quid for the camera...

[pogo]

And you don’t need to look at them when using them with the VR headset. As I wrote in the other thread they would seem to be ideal for it, and this one of the reasons. They look a bit simple/childish but you don’t get to look at them, and anyway you look like a right tool with a headset on whatever you are holding. Plus their simplicity goes well with the headset which itself is a controller for looking, turning and motion tracking. Pairing a standard dual-analog stick controller with a VR headset is overkill.

The price? I can only hope it’s an error, or someone having a laugh with a fake mockup. After all it is the Daily Express, not known for its savvy tech reporting. December 31 2016 too.

[Little stoned kiwi]

I depend on you lot to be early adopters to lower the manufacturing cost so I can buy it at a cheaper price.

[RiK]

Personally I can't see them releasing at that price if they hope to gain anything like reasonable traction with VR as it would take one heck of a leap of faith for anyone to be spending double the cost of a console on a peripheral display!

[Deckard]

Personally I can't see them releasing at that price if they hope to gain anything like reasonable traction with VR as it would take one heck of a leap of faith for anyone to be spending double the cost of a console on a peripheral display!

Possibly a PR trick so they can then release it a hundred quid cheaper and crow about it

[fred_zen]

Personally I can't see them releasing at that price if they hope to gain anything like reasonable traction with VR as it would take one heck of a leap of faith for anyone to be spending double the cost of a console on a peripheral display!

Agreed. I reckon that even a pack including the headset and the console for that price would be a tough sell in the mainstream market. It would make a killer niche product, especially if it's hackable. Maybe the time for mainstream VR hasn't come yet? Bummer.

[gilesgoat]

HUM ... I'd wait "a bit more" to see what happens .. that .. number to me "sounds a bit suspicious".

Said that as a piece of HW by its own I can say that Morpheus is really LOVELY and DO NOT FORGET THE 120 Hz !

At this point I am very very curious to see what the Valve thing is going to cost .. at this point "the bet" is "probably the same as the others" ( if not even more ) .

I'd be very very interested to see both ( OR and Vibe ) but unfortunately I never seen them yet so I really have no idea "how they compare" to Morpheus, compared to DK2 of course "it's a no brainer which one is the better".

Problem is "don't judge all this stuff by the price alone" I mean you should try it, see what it does for you and then think "ok am I willing to spend this for this sort of experience ?".

At least with the PS4 you won't have to mind "if your PC/GPU is powerful enough", it is.

Don't know that well about production costs and such to judge "if the Morpheus alone is worth that money or should be cheaper", time ago "there's been some informal talks" about things that could have been done to cut some prices but I think "the overall consensus" was "there's only so little much you can cut if you want to keep 'the real VR experience' ".

If you start to be too economic .. shit happens and full stop.

I guess when/if this thing will really reach big volumes some prices will start to drop but until then .. "it's a bit of a luxury piece of HW".

To me is worth because I know what it can do.

[TFO]

Hmm. I do wonder if this is just a placeholder amount. Especially with the December 31st date on it.
I'm sure I read that they want to sell one-point-something million units this year alone. Not gonna hapoen at that pricepoint/date

[gilesgoat]

Anyway about pricing and such in this case it's really a bit "you get what you paid for"

Sure you can do something for a bit less, but the experience won't be the best.

[Whiteball]

Not sure of the source, but I was told recently that Sony themselves have commented that the price is likely to be between £350 to £500.

Bit of a wide margin, would have thought they had a better idea this far along of what it's likely to retail for.

[Deckard]

Anyway about pricing and such in this case it's really a bit "you get what you paid for"

Sure you can do something for a bit less, but the experience won't be the best.

That is true but this Sony console is mass market and they should be looking at a mass market price to get everyone onside not just a few niche early tech adopters.

[RiK]

Personally I can't see them releasing at that price if they hope to gain anything like reasonable traction with VR as it would take one heck of a leap of faith for anyone to be spending double the cost of a console on a peripheral display!

Possibly a PR trick so they can then release it a hundred quid cheaper and crow about it

First thing I thought was "I wonder if this is one of those 'accidental leaks' deliberately posted to gauge public response, and as it's not directly attributed to Sony they have plausible deniability. "Nothing to do with us, Amazon made a mistake".