Oculus Rift

Yeah. I'm certainly interested, I also want to see what happens with PSVR before I hitch myself to something.

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Originally Posted by Type Ryan

From a business standpoint, if that's the case then they would be more interested in volume vs profit margin/unit. Imo, the aggressive price point leads me to believe that they want to make as much money back as possible, as quickly as possible. At $599, I'm not sure they'll be flying off the shelves. I could be wrong, but I don't think the majority of people who were interested in this will be willing to shell out $600 for this.

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Without knowing how much it costs to make this thing, talk of profit margin is a waste of time. We're not talking about something like a PS4 which used a lot of basically standardized parts.

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Originally Posted by Chux

I get that, but I don't think that's sustainable in the "Race to the bottom" system we have with PC games.

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I don't want the people who support that influencing development decisions either. The games that I have bought from Steam sales I rarely wind up playing. The good ones I buy at or near full price. People who wait on everything are assholes who don't want a vote.

lol "the good ones"

$600 headsets and $100 games sound great. Old games are already too expensive for me to buy. If new games are too, then I can finally kiss this hobby goodbye and do something with my life.

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Originally Posted by FirstBlood

lol "the good ones"

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It's true. Only the enlightened, deserving among us bought The Order: 1886 for fifty-nine point nine nine dollars. It is they who must decide our fates.

I preordered. Should get mine in May. I haven't messed around with one since DK1; hopefully it doesn't cause the nightmare motion-sickness the DK1 dropped on me.

I've only messed with DK2 and I had zero motion sickness, although it did have a lot of screen door going on. I imagine both of these are far less in CV1.

I got a Google Cardboard recently and it was actually pretty fun. Doesn't quite give you that immersive feel of the Rift but I have to say the picture is great on my phone's QHD display, which leaves me feeling very optimistic about how those big pixels will look on the Rift.

Has anyone here gotten to try the Vive? Seems like having one central VR thread would be good for discussion at this time, but I'll move this to the steam thread if needed.

Got my preorder in this morning. Price is high, but I don't think it would have been a dealbreaker for me even if I weren't doing some dev stuff.

boy do I hope at least one of the launch games is solid. Valkyrie looks good at the very least. Wonder when Edge of Nowhere will be out.