On January 18 2016 01:58 Foxxan wrote: My ps4 is loud as fuck. Jesus crist, it makes me crazy. Just ordered a headset yesterday. I WONT PLAY WITHOUT A HEADSET EVER ON MY PS4
Fu sony you piece of shit company
Is it new or something? could you just return it or exchange it? Is it still on warranty ?
- Oculus Rift: $600 (plus cost of motion controllers) - HTC Vive: $800 - Andrew House: Playstation VR would be priced as a "new gaming platform"
If "new gaming platform" means something similar to a new game console, it could cost $400 like the PS4 or even higher at $500 like the Xbox One at launch.
Console launch prices have even been higher in the past. It could cost $600 like the 60GB PS3 at release (sharing the same price as the Oculus Rift)
What do you think? Somewhere in that range? Lower? Higher?
On January 18 2016 01:58 Foxxan wrote: My ps4 is loud as fuck. Jesus crist, it makes me crazy. Just ordered a headset yesterday. I WONT PLAY WITHOUT A HEADSET EVER ON MY PS4
Fu sony you piece of shit company
Is it new or something? could you just return it or exchange it? Is it still on warranty ?
Mine is pretty quite.
Yeah it was new. Was loud as fuck since day 1. Obviously i can exchange it if i found the receive but still, next gen console that is this loud just feels like junk. Some get lucky some dont, ffs.
Maybe Sony's justification - that many PS4 owners already own the camera - is a good argument to offer it separately.
But that still leaves the peripheral device $50 more expensive than the console. I'm not sure how attractive that is to potential early adopters, whom Sony is betting on to buy their product in enough numbers. The company is relying on them heavily to evangelize and subsidize future sales of Playstation VR for mass consumption.
Their target market is limited to people who neither have nor plan to build a $900 gaming PC and do not plan to buy a $600 Oculus Rift, but who have or plan to buy a PS4 and will pay $400 to buy Playstation VR ($450 if they don't have the camera).
It feels like Sony is taking a bigger risk by not choosing to sell their VR hardware at a greater loss. A lower price point could significantly increase the number of potential early adopters.
Then again, I don't know how much it costs Sony to build each of these units.
With Playstation 4 keeping Sony Ent in the black for the most part, they can kind of take the chance to lower the price of the PSVR, but I think that would be a bad move if within 6 months they are going to lower the price anyway. At the latest, I expect a price drop in a year of release. Mostly because if they do have 230 studios working on titles, then they don't have to lower the price any time soon and just need to demo the games and get them out of the door.
As it turns out, they are selling each VR unit at a profit.
That is good news, both from an objective point of view and in reaction to their costly mistakes in the last generation.
Still think $400 price is a little high, but maybe that's a minority opinion.
There could be overwhelming demand for the offered value ... preorders being sold out could be the tip of the iceberg.
On March 17 2016 05:12 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote: With Playstation 4 keeping Sony Ent in the black for the most part, they can kind of take the chance to lower the price of the PSVR, but I think that would be a bad move if within 6 months they are going to lower the price anyway. At the latest, I expect a price drop in a year of release. Mostly because if they do have 230 studios working on titles, then they don't have to lower the price any time soon and just need to demo the games and get them out of the door.
Good point. They will likely cruise along until some time passes and sales start to decline, then commit to a price drop.
It'll look good on their part and work out provided that the first year of sales goes smoothly.
If they only had 1000 units for preorder and at 400 a pop...well...Or maximize to a likely 5000. It releases in October. They'll easily have 5000 units available. They'll more than likely have 10k units available in the UK alone. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that by the end of the year, Sony moves 50k-75k units throughout all regions. They'll cover $20m @ 50k units. By next E3 they'll drop the price to $349 and a bundle for $449.