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Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 5:40 pm
by Eraser
Oculus has officially announced the price for a Rift: 500 UK pound or 600 us dollar. That likely means 600 euro's.
Fuck that. It's way too expensive. Frustratingly, Palmer Luckey spoke of targeting a $200 to $400 price range before.
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 5:41 pm
by Eraser
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 5:49 pm
by Deathshroud
I'm tempted, but damn that's expensive!
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 5:56 pm
by Deathshroud
I'm guessing manufacturing costs more than they projected, or they were blowing smoke up people's asses for attention.
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 6:06 pm
by seremtan
blowing smoke up people's asses used to be how you revived them if they nearly drowned
it would certainly get their attention though
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 6:53 pm
by Tsakali
The steam ones will be better, and Prolly better price. They will have to adjust or get out out of business.
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 8:12 pm
by Don Carlos
Fuck. That.
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 8:28 pm
by PhoeniX
£500? More like $600/£600. Exchange rates appear to not apply to tech stuff.
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 8:44 pm
by Κracus
Yeah I'll wait. Probably won't be long before they start going up on ebay cause people have motion sickness.
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 8:51 pm
by xer0s
Plus it's 1st Gen. Never buy 1st Gen...
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 9:57 pm
by Eraser
xer0s wrote:Plus it's 1st Gen. Never buy 1st Gen...
With DK1 and DK2 being available as long as they have been, you can hardly call this 1st gen. At least not in the sense that it's untested (out in the wild) tech.
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 12:19 am
by Whiskey 7
Deathshroud wrote:I'm tempted, but damn that's expensive!
Me too... wait..
Gadgets
CONFIRMED: The Oculus Rift Will Cost Australians Over $1100 [Updated]
Today 4:45 AM
Source
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 12:43 am
by scared?
Lol Australians...
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 2:16 am
by Captain
A couple ugly nerds at work were drooling all over the fact that they spent almost $1000 on pre-ordering one, fucking morons
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:58 am
by Transient
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 5:54 am
by U4EA
Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus and designer of the Rift, is doing an AMA on Reddit. He responds directly about the pricing issue
here.
Full thread.
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 8:54 am
by Ryoki
Jesus that's a lot of money.
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 12:12 pm
by Eraser
Whiskey 7 wrote:
Gadgets
CONFIRMED: The Oculus Rift Will Cost Australians Over $1100 [Updated]
Today 4:45 AM
Source
That's AUS dollar, not US dollar
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 1:43 pm
by xer0s
Is it really that much money? Same price as a new smart phone...
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 2:34 pm
by feedback
Ryoki wrote:Jesus that's a lot of money.
Same price as the average flagship smartphone which people seem to buy every year or so. It might not be worth buying now, but very few first gen tech is. Maybe in a couple years.
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 2:41 pm
by shaft
This isn't some standalone device. It's a $600 peripheral. You still need a $1000 PC to run it. Intel i5-4590, 970 GTX minimum.
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:03 pm
by Ryoki
That's what i'm saying (actually i wasn't, but that's what i meant - thanks mr shaft).
Not all of us operate a succesful waste disposal business from our backyards you know.
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:59 pm
by ToxicBug
shaft wrote:This isn't some standalone device. It's a $600 peripheral. You still need a $1000 PC to run it. Intel i5-4590, 970 GTX minimum.
Being an early adopter is an expensive hobby.
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 7:46 pm
by Captain
Here's to all the miserable beta-testers
Re: Oculus Rift £500/$600
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 10:05 pm
by Transient
xer0s wrote:Is it really that much money? Same price as a new smart phone...
Considering it's kind of a smart phone strapped to your face, is it all that surprising?
