PlayStation VR Will Arrive in October for $399

Re:PlayStation VR Will Arrive in October for $399 by gwern on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @07:45PM (#11293912)

What sort of VR headset do you expect for $99? At that price, you get Cardboard and Gear, at best, and those have underwhelmed the market and people who have tried them & Vive/Rift/PS.

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Re:PlayStation VR Will Arrive in October for $399 by JavaScriptrr on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @07:54PM (#11293959)

The question is: why not lose money on the hardware, to accelerate distribution and put an awesome device in people's hands and then make money on software. So my suggestion would be to sell the $399 devixe for $99. Not push out something crappy

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Re:PlayStation VR Will Arrive in October for $399 by goshx on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @07:59PM (#11293992)

Come on Javascript (no pun intended), they'd lose money very quickly. They are already below the price tag of the competition.

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Re:PlayStation VR Will Arrive in October for $399 by petra on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @08:03PM (#11294012)

Currently they are the cheapest, and it's easier to reduce prices than to increase them, so maybe they are saving that for later, especially when they learn more about game sales and the business ?

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Re:PlayStation VR Will Arrive in October for $399 by imtringued on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @08:53AM (#11296870)

Occulus VR doesn't make money from selling you a Rift.

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