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PlayStation VR Pre-Orders Sell Out In Minutes At Amazon (roadtovr.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Once seen as the underdog, Sony's PlayStation VR headset continues to hold its own against PC-based competitors Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The company announced last week that they won't ship the PSVR headset until October, but they also announced an attractive $399 price compared to the Rift at $599 and Vive at $799. And it appears the company's existing addressable market of 36 million PS4 owners are ready to get on board; Amazon U.S. opened pre-orders for the PSVR Launch Bundle this morning and sold out of its stock allocation in less than 10 minutes. Walmart befell the same fate quickly thereafter, though several other retailers in the U.S. are still showing pre-order stock.
I wonder what degree of motion sickness a vr helmet would do. One idea i had for a vr game was being suspended by a 3drange of motion harness. Do movements like you're in space in an iron man suit playing a game of soccer... The queasiness of vr and being spun around would probably outweigh the coolness factor.
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Let's hope so. I've beaten Netflix and now I'm looking for some new entertainment.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I'm saving my money for a Sybian VR.
You are welcome on my lawn.
It's 399 if you already have the required camera and move controllers.(Which a lot of people don't have.) There is a package deal with those included for 499.
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This article would be infinity more informative if we were told what Amazon's allotment was. Selling 100 units of VR equipment on a major console in a short amount of time would be completely unimpressive. Selling 100k would be very impressive. Without the numbers the only thing this tells us is we can't buy the VR gear from Amazon.
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Do you realise that the finished PSVR was demonstrated to most game journalists and game developers in the recent Game Developers Conference? All reviews from this have been amazingly positive of the experience, except for one or two that complained about lag with the Move controller. They were _all_ very positive about the headset hardware itself, and its performance.
Now, perhaps 20% of those journalists may fit into your category of "stupid enough to fall for marketing hype". Not all, though. Certainly not the game devs. Those guys know what they're talking about.
My brother is a graphics programmer and a game dev. He was at the GDC. He tried the Sony headset. He was very impressed with it, rating it above the Vive for graphic quality, despite the PSVR having lower resolution. Believe me, he is no idiot.
The PSVR undoubtedly works well. Development has been years in the making, starting even before the Rift kickstarter, and it is now finished. The only ones who bore the development costs are Sony themselves. All is left now is manufacturing and distribution. Preorders help the manufacturer know what demand there is for the product, and how much effort they need to go to for manufacture. People putting their money down early is the best way for a manufacturer to gauge what demand will be like. The preorder numbers are invaluable for the high level of manufacturing needed for this.
Virtual reality has been a dream for a lot of people. Sony's PSVR has made that dream relatively affordable. Don't be a dick and call them dumb.
What a sad individual you are. Look at the effort you go to to vent anger over a fucking consumer level product. You need help. That much angst and anger is not healthy. Get a fucking life and ignore the crap others enjoy if it's not something your interested. What they spend their money is nothing to do with you.
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The "morons" who have prepaid for it have read the opinions of people of many people that have experienced the product. They're basing their pre-purchase on the fact that all people who have tried it, have approved of it. This is an informed purchase.
Remember those Gamergate dildos who were ranting about "ethics in gaming journalism"? They're especially dildoish because there has never been ethics in gaming journalism. Most gaming journalism is utter bullshit. Gaming reviews are consistently excessively high (8 and 9 scores for games that are barely playable) precisely because of the factors described in the GP comment, including reviewers who want to continue reviewing so they say nice things, and pre-release demos which are carefully constructed to avoid demonstrating the holes in the technology.
In short, any gamer who doesn't know this is either brand fucking new, or a complete goddamned idiot. We all know that buying prerelease stuff means you get bugs, you get things that will be revised out later. And you don't save any money doing it, so what are these people paying for? They're paying to be the first to experience the bugs. That's pretty fucking stupid if you're not so wealthy that the money is irrelevant.
Those who remember the lessons of history are doomed to stand around and watch others repeat them. I bet you buy Bethesda prereleases too, and don't wait for them to fix the 2308472823727 quest-stopping bugs that they put into literally every game they make.
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Ask me why you don't get invited to many parties.
The thing you are totally overlooking with your Uriel level nerd rant is that Sony and game makers are going to put forth a lot of effort to make sure the thing works as well as possible. As mentioned already the GDC unit were really good - they may have been optimized to some extent but you ALSO overlook that the GDC units are before several months more of development goes into the shipping product. So no matter how "tuned" cdc units were, shipping units will be better.
Why do you have to be so down on something fun? A few hundred dollars is not a lot of money to most tech workers who could use a break from the fixed screen they have and put one over their head instead.
You belong with the telephone sanitizers on a rocket shipped off the earth so the rest of us can have a good life free of your illogical rage.
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