Amazon accidently leaks the price for the Playstation VR headset

Buccaneer · January 2016

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/632733/Sony-PS4-PlayStation-VR-Headset-UK-Price-Release-Date

All I can say is ouch if the reported price is true.

$1,125.35 (Canadian Dollars) or £550 converted to the UK pound.
$800 (US Dollars) or 730 Euros (all figures approx)

Buccaneer · January 2016

For some reason I cannot edit my OP. I just wanted to add I'm hoping it's just an error on the part of Amazon and not a true reflection on the expected price.

PottedPlant22 · January 2016

oh dear. looks like one company is looking to make a profit on their system, while another was actually telling the truth about how much it costs to make VR.

SlothnChunk · January 2016

I wouldn't be surprised if that was actually a bundle price (VR headset, PS4, several games, sound system, etc.) and likely posted under the wrong product.

Buccaneer · January 2016

PottedPlant22 said:

oh dear. looks like one company is looking to make a profit on their system, while another was actually telling the truth about how much it costs to make VR.

Yep, have to give HTC/Valve props about being truthful regarding the costs of VR.

donger56 · January 2016

I have a hard time thinking VR is going to be any good for the current generation of console [mod edit] Those systems can't even manage 1080p 60fps for most games. Leave the new stuff for the PC gamer, you [mod edit] can play with it next decade.

SlothnChunk · January 2016

Buccaneer said:

PottedPlant22 said:

oh dear. looks like one company is looking to make a profit on their system, while another was actually telling the truth about how much it costs to make VR.

Yep, have to give HTC/Valve props about being truthful regarding the costs of VR.

Doesn't make sense though since Sony is funding the development of all sorts of VR games (they make their money on games not the gaming hardware) so they are likely to subsidize the VR headsets like they do the PS4. On top of that, Sony learned with the PS3 steep price point at launch how something that expensive hurts sales early on (while the PS4 being heavily subsidized allowed it to be cheaper than the competition and since set all sorts of sales records)

Price was an error or placeholder.

heerobya · January 2016

@donger56 ;

Lol ok man, enjoy all of your awesome PC exclusives. You know, like... umm... Star Citizen sometime? Maybe? In 2023?

SlothnChunk · January 2016

donger56 said:

I have a hard time thinking VR is going to be any good for the current generation of console [mod edit] Those systems can't even manage 1080p 60fps for most games. Leave the new stuff for the PC gamer, you [mod edit] can play with it next decade.

Sony already stated their VR comes with a processor box that increases performance.

Nanfoodle · January 2016

donger56 said:

I have a hard time thinking VR is going to be any good for the current generation of console [mod edit] Those systems can't even manage 1080p 60fps for most games. Leave the new stuff for the PC gamer, you [mod edit] can play with it next decade.

The console VR headsets are not just a headset from what I have read. They come with a box that has more processing power. You plug that box into your console.

PottedPlant22 · January 2016

SlothnChunk said:

Buccaneer said:

PottedPlant22 said:

oh dear. looks like one company is looking to make a profit on their system, while another was actually telling the truth about how much it costs to make VR.

Yep, have to give HTC/Valve props about being truthful regarding the costs of VR.

Doesn't make sense though since Sony is funding the development of all sorts of VR games (they make their money on games not the gaming hardware) so they are likely to subsidize the VR headsets like they do the PS4. On top of that, Sony learned with the PS3 steep price point at launch how something that expensive hurts sales early on (while the PS4 being heavily subsidized allowed it to be cheaper than the competition and since set all sorts of sales records)

Price was an error or placeholder.

Here's a link to an article I think is a perfect summation of where VR is today.
http://www.wired.com/2016/01/oculus-rift-price/

Do you want cheap and it to suck? Or do you want it to be expensive and a game changer?

SlothnChunk · January 2016

PottedPlant22 said:

SlothnChunk said:

Buccaneer said:

PottedPlant22 said:

oh dear. looks like one company is looking to make a profit on their system, while another was actually telling the truth about how much it costs to make VR.

Yep, have to give HTC/Valve props about being truthful regarding the costs of VR.

Doesn't make sense though since Sony is funding the development of all sorts of VR games (they make their money on games not the gaming hardware) so they are likely to subsidize the VR headsets like they do the PS4. On top of that, Sony learned with the PS3 steep price point at launch how something that expensive hurts sales early on (while the PS4 being heavily subsidized allowed it to be cheaper than the competition and since set all sorts of sales records)

Price was an error or placeholder.

Here's a link to an article I think is a perfect summation of where VR is today.
http://www.wired.com/2016/01/oculus-rift-price/

The summation of it is - do you want cheap and it to suck? Or do you want it to be expensive and a game changer?

Not sure if you understand what subsidized means?

Another example: Dell just announced today two PC bundles for $1199 that include the Oculus Rift. They stated that's $200 off the price right there.

So Dell just announced the first VR headset subsidy. Expect Sony to do the same.

EDIT: And did you read the article you linked above? It reinforces what I'm saying:

"Sony does have one thing that Rift doesn’t: every purchase of PlayStation VR loops users into its closed software ecosystem. Yes, Oculus has a store, but you don’t need to pay Oculus another dime after you buy a Rift; it’s a personal computer accessory and you’ll be able to find software elsewhere. But if you buy a PlayStation 4, you get your games via Sony, and no other channels.

So Sony has a bit more incentive—and an ability—to take a loss on the PlayStation VR hardware, just to solve the chicken-and-egg problem and make PlayStation VR a mass-market device from the start. After all, Sony knows it’ll make up the loss with software sales."

Buccaneer · January 2016

SlothnChunk said:

Buccaneer said:

PottedPlant22 said:

oh dear. looks like one company is looking to make a profit on their system, while another was actually telling the truth about how much it costs to make VR.

Yep, have to give HTC/Valve props about being truthful regarding the costs of VR.

Doesn't make sense though since Sony is funding the development of all sorts of VR games (they make their money on games not the gaming hardware) so they are likely to subsidize the VR headsets like they do the PS4. On top of that, Sony learned with the PS3 steep price point at launch how something that expensive hurts sales early on (while the PS4 being heavily subsidized allowed it to be cheaper than the competition and since set all sorts of sales records)

Price was an error or placeholder.

I hope you are right. If not it gives me a bit of a dilemna. I have a PS4 but would need to upgrade my PC for a Rift or Vive. Once you include PS Move sticks and camera into the price it would be the same to upgrade my GPU and get the Rift.

Wizardry · January 2016

Buccaneer said:

For some reason I cannot edit my OP. I just wanted to add I'm hoping it's just an error on the part of Amazon and not a true reflection on the expected price.

I have had that before as well,site is buggy as heck.

That CDN price is absolutely insane because that also means a lot more tax on top of that price.
ALL of those prices are insane.Plastic and some transistors and diodes and capacitors yeah seen it all before.
When i see where these things are actually manufactured it might make some sense,usually all this hardware stuff is made by slave labor,under age kids over seas or by women who live 5 in one room and get paid 5 bucks a week.The prices seen so steep i am sure they must be made in the USA.
With these kind of prices the money should go towards a shrink to anyone paying these prices.

Well i guess in all reality we pay a buck something fro a small bottle of water,that is like 4-5x the price of gasoline,,,wtf has happened to the economy,i bought a bag of chips for 5 cents back in the day.

WolfClaws · January 2016

Ummm Playstation does 1080 for a lot of games. You are confusing the lack of 1080 resolution with the Xbox.

SEANMCAD · January 2016

I think what one needs to consider is this.

Most current PCs cant handle Oculus Rift
Most playstation games cant run higher than 1080p and 60fps only on its best day.

so...extra hardware is desperately needed if their project is going to work

SEANMCAD · January 2016

WolfClaws said:

Ummm Playstation does 1080 for a lot of games. You are confusing the lack of 1080 resolution with the Xbox.

Oculus is 1080×1200 PER EYE and I think at a 90fps target

MrSnuffles · January 2016

SEANMCAD said:

I think what one needs to consider is this.

Most current PCs cant handle Oculus Rift
Most playstation games cant run higher than 1080p and 60fps only on its best day.

so...extra hardware is desperately needed if their project is going to work

The SONY headset comes with Hardware, that is common knowledge and already confirmed by SONY.

Quizzical · January 2016

SlothnChunk said:

PottedPlant22 said:

SlothnChunk said:

Buccaneer said:

PottedPlant22 said:

oh dear. looks like one company is looking to make a profit on their system, while another was actually telling the truth about how much it costs to make VR.

Yep, have to give HTC/Valve props about being truthful regarding the costs of VR.

Doesn't make sense though since Sony is funding the development of all sorts of VR games (they make their money on games not the gaming hardware) so they are likely to subsidize the VR headsets like they do the PS4. On top of that, Sony learned with the PS3 steep price point at launch how something that expensive hurts sales early on (while the PS4 being heavily subsidized allowed it to be cheaper than the competition and since set all sorts of sales records)

Price was an error or placeholder.

Here's a link to an article I think is a perfect summation of where VR is today.
http://www.wired.com/2016/01/oculus-rift-price/

The summation of it is - do you want cheap and it to suck? Or do you want it to be expensive and a game changer?

Not sure if you understand what subsidized means?

Another example: Dell just announced today two PC bundles for $1199 that include the Oculus Rift. They stated that's $200 off the price right there.

So Dell just announced the first VR headset subsidy. Expect Sony to do the same.

EDIT: And did you read the article you linked above? It reinforces what I'm saying:
"Sony does have one thing that Rift doesn’t: every purchase of PlayStation VR loops users into its closed software ecosystem. Yes, Oculus has a store, but you don’t need to pay Oculus another dime after you buy a Rift; it’s a personal computer accessory and you’ll be able to find software elsewhere. But if you buy a PlayStation 4, you get your games via Sony, and no other channels.
So Sony has a bit more incentive—and an ability—to take a loss on the PlayStation VR hardware, just to solve the chicken-and-egg problem and make PlayStation VR a mass-market device from the start. After all, Sony knows it’ll make up the loss with software sales."

Dell always offers supposed discounts on everything. The basic model is to take something that would cost $1000 elsewhere, claim it's nominally worth $2000, but if you buy it from them today they'll give you a huge discount to only charge you $1500 for it.

Even if you nominally get $200 off the Oculus Rift, you'll overpay for the rest of the bundle by a whole lot more than $200.

OhhPaigey · January 2016

I'm laughing at these prices.

SEANMCAD · January 2016

SlothnChunk said:

PottedPlant22 said:

SlothnChunk said:

Buccaneer said:

PottedPlant22 said:

oh dear. looks like one company is looking to make a profit on their system, while another was actually telling the truth about how much it costs to make VR.

Yep, have to give HTC/Valve props about being truthful regarding the costs of VR.

Doesn't make sense though since Sony is funding the development of all sorts of VR games (they make their money on games not the gaming hardware) so they are likely to subsidize the VR headsets like they do the PS4. On top of that, Sony learned with the PS3 steep price point at launch how something that expensive hurts sales early on (while the PS4 being heavily subsidized allowed it to be cheaper than the competition and since set all sorts of sales records)

Price was an error or placeholder.

Here's a link to an article I think is a perfect summation of where VR is today.
http://www.wired.com/2016/01/oculus-rift-price/

The summation of it is - do you want cheap and it to suck? Or do you want it to be expensive and a game changer?

Not sure if you understand what subsidized means?

Another example: Dell just announced today two PC bundles for $1199 that include the Oculus Rift. They stated that's $200 off the price right there.

So Dell just announced the first VR headset subsidy. Expect Sony to do the same.

EDIT: And did you read the article you linked above? It reinforces what I'm saying:
"Sony does have one thing that Rift doesn’t: every purchase of PlayStation VR loops users into its closed software ecosystem. Yes, Oculus has a store, but you don’t need to pay Oculus another dime after you buy a Rift; it’s a personal computer accessory and you’ll be able to find software elsewhere. But if you buy a PlayStation 4, you get your games via Sony, and no other channels.
So Sony has a bit more incentive—and an ability—to take a loss on the PlayStation VR hardware, just to solve the chicken-and-egg problem and make PlayStation VR a mass-market device from the start. After all, Sony knows it’ll make up the loss with software sales."

Basically you are saying Galaxy is subsidized by Samsung...

if you are a company that makes a device you are not subsidizing your own product.
subsidized means from a DIFFERENT source, not the same source.

In fact, Facebook subsidizing Oculus is more accurate statement than
Sony subsidizing Morpheus because Morpheus is being built under the same company

Asm0deus · January 2016

Don't get excited guys amazon and newegg often have prices wrong before things are released, it's not unusual. They even make such mistakes after things are released.

For example....http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA9JU3FX5699&cm_re=g600-_-9SIA9JU3FX5699-_-Product 138.24$

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826104674&cm_re=g600-_-26-104-674-_-Product same product but 79.99$

Guess which one is the correct price...lol

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