I'd fully expect that, but then you can buy someones second hand CV1. Its not perfect, but there will be options to get VR cheaper at some point.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Oculus Rift available for preorder for $599.99, shipping in March
- Thread starter War Eagle
- Start date
I'd fully expect that, but then you can buy someones second hand CV1. Its not perfect, but there will be options to get VR cheaper at some point.
SHAFT MASTER
Banned
The people who are taking issue with the price should watch this whole video. It will hopefully give you some perspective and an idea of how they came up with the price.
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
Even though this iteration of vr is more akin to early days of 3d graphics cards, the amount of hmds that are gonna be piling up in a few years is reminding me of all the pong consoles in the 70s and 80s. Enthusiasts are gonna be able to make their own mini museum exhibit xD
DouglasteR
Member
Same here, but it does shows my order on the shop page.
All my ports are compatible, I just have too many devices. I hate swapping stuff out and if this thing really needs 4 usb ports I'd be doing that all the time.
Obliterator
Member
It appears they changed the store posting. It no longer says shipping in June. It now just says a vague Shipping in Q2
Dagobert Duck
Member
No offense to the adopters but this price just put be out of VR completly, and I wasnt really into it, in the first place, cause for me gaming has become something social...and this kinda annihilates it and that at a 599$ price-tag? Wow.
Maybe if Sony gets it right AND the price is beneath the price of the PS4 (i wouldnt pay more for a peripheral than for the console) it can get mass market appeal, but right now, I dont think so...
Maybe if Sony gets it right AND the price is beneath the price of the PS4 (i wouldnt pay more for a peripheral than for the console) it can get mass market appeal, but right now, I dont think so...
NumberThree
Member
It'll probably work like smartphones, there's the new high end model around the same price point every year and then they sell old technology in a slightly different package at a cheaper price.
EroticSushi
Member
Its like $1200 AUS, no way could I pay for that.
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
Yeesh, very curious to see what their order total is for first day. As I mentioned elsewhere their messaging a ways back on building stock for cv1 was that it would be ample and wait time for delivery wouldn't be as much of an issue as it was with the devkits. I'm guessing either said stock hasn't actually been built up, or they severely underestimated demand. Probably a bit of both going by this tweet earlier today:
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Lol.No matter how hard I try, I cant seem to get all ticks
Obliterator
Member
Yeesh, very curious to see what their order total is for first day. As I mentioned elsewhere their messaging a ways back on building stock for cv1 was that it would be ample and wait time for delivery wouldn't be as much of an issue as it was with the devkits. I'm guessing either said stock hasn't actually been built up, or they severely underestimated demand. Probably a bit of both going by this tweet earlier today:
Yeah, I get the feeling this is selling. A LOT
Dark_castle
Junior Member
VR porn mang.
Dagobert Duck
Member
What would be a lot? I think a range of 10.000 would already be a lot...
Obliterator
Member
I have no idea, as I have no idea what expectations are. I simply mean I get the feeling its exceeding their expectations considering we are now seeing posting like vague Q2 and we are already backordered at this point for months
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
That doesn't mean anything though.
nephilimdj
Member
But its still a good price when you consider the Sony HMZ-T3 is like 1600 AUD
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
Yeah this has entered my mind as well, prob a lot of spammy "why the hell not" impulse pre-orders in there that will scale back by quite a bit the closer it gets to launch. I'm surprised they didn't at least do a $50 authorization to make sure payment info is legit. Or maybe they did I dunno...I'm part of the KS crowd.
They gave away something like 7000 for free to KS backers. They processed way more than 10,000 preorders today.
Nightengale
Member
I think Oculus will comfortably sell >500k
Beyond that depends on how vibrant the VR market truly is.
Beyond that depends on how vibrant the VR market truly is.
GraveHorizon
poop meter feature creep
SHAFT MASTER
Banned
Whether you can afford it or not is not my point. I can't either. My point is that I can see why this thing costs so much. For that reason, I don't really have an issue with it being $1200 here in Australia.
The first generation of any hardware like this is always prohibitively expensive for the majority of people. This is no different. The price will only come down and the quality of the experience will go up.
Pathfinder
Member
Haint
Member
Yeesh, very curious to see what their order total is for first day. As I mentioned elsewhere their messaging a ways back on building stock for cv1 was that it would be ample and wait time for delivery wouldn't be as much of an issue as it was with the devkits. I'm guessing either said stock hasn't actually been built up, or they severely underestimated demand. Probably a bit of both going by this tweet earlier today:
It's a bogus number regardless. Doing zero down preorders was a really bad idea if they actually wanted to gauge interest and adjust manufacturing capacity (which I'm assuming was the goal, 4 months in advance). It might as well be a "sign up for email updates" list cause the majority of todays orders will be canceled as March 28th approaches and that $680 charge threatens to materialize.
Vampirolol
Member
Preorders don't really mean anything, even Wii U broke some records back then and now look at it. I still think that VR will be big, but not huge in the near future. Happy for the people with enough money for a good PC and a Rift!
They were cheaper but also not nearly as good as the consumer rift will be. This is the real deal with actual finished software ready Day 1. If anything more people are going to come to their senses after the initial sticker shock and realize how good of a deal it actually is, and end up pre-ordering late and regretting their initial hesitation. It's going be really hard to get a Rift until summer at least, I guarantee it.
Lol, a majority? What the hell are you basing this on other than tales from your ass?
Vigilant Walrus
Member
lmao
Amazing Hahahaha
lmao
Obliterator
Member
Would it be better if I posted "What the fuck Oculus! Wow cant believe that price. Unbelievable, VR is DEAD"
Would that be a more appropriate response for the thread?
lmao
I LOL'd
Movalpolos
Banned
They would like for it to work like that but the truth is that it can't work like that as VR stands now.
nephilimdj
Member
Not sure why some think will only ship some small numbers, wouldnt be surprised if the number alone before sales is like 20k on launch (7k to backers, 13k more for promo/instore display/reviews/devs)
Already pumped 10s of millions into this project
Already pumped 10s of millions into this project
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
lmao
That's a good one, gotta love this from r/oculus with the tag "Those of us still aboard the hype train"...
anothertech
Member
Ya, it was more the tone of his responses. There was no PR spin as would be expected from lash out at the pricing. He was very down to earth about it, and apologetic. A billion dollar company response is never apologetic.
Not much real info about specs and such, but he literally answered the hard questions first and it was worded in a very believable way and sounded like he knew what he was talking about which was quite refreshing. Made the 'we're not selling this for profit' easier to swallow and actually makes the device much more exciting to me. This product could have easily sold for $1k+ if a normal price were applied it sounds like.
If his answers were just pr drivel, my reaction would have been the opposite.
Palmer takes a lot of crap for selling to Facebook but he seems like a genuinely good dude. He posts pretty regularly on the Oculus subreddit and mixes it up with the VR geeks. He spent hours trying to explain himself to the Valve fanboys over on /r/pcmasterrace that Oculus wasn't just moneyhatting existing VR games for exclusives. He always gives great, informative interviews and exudes enthusiasm. He doesn't take himself seriously at all. I wish there were more company reps like Palmer. He's a breath of fresh air.
Disaster Nebraska
Banned
Oh my. This is too good.
lmao
Honestly, I do hope Oculus does well. But they're soaking all the VR aggro, and Sony and Vive would be fools not to cash in.
Hope Oculus is able to establish their brand, Facebook fortune or not.
Unknown Soldier
Member
It's like Facebook swooped in and everyone forgot that Palmer Luckey started out as a guy who hacked together LCD screens in his garage for fun. That was how he started in VR. The 9,522 of us who backed his original KS for the Rift DK1 basically believed in his vision because he met The Carmack and they got along well and Carmack judged that Palmer was a guy who could make it happen. And he did in the end. But he's still the same nerd who was soldering his own bits together in a garage to make his first VR headsets, in that regard he's a lot more like Carmack than he is like Steve Jobs or somebody.