The HTC Vive just had a price cut, VR just became a little more accessible

QuoteHas this price cut made you more likely to buy one

Nope. :P

Still can't see VR taking off. The PS4 variant's "only" ~£340, and that's still too much to pay for such gimmicky tech in my opinion.

Waiting for second generation, price drop to 500€ and at least few good games to play around in Linux. Not having time for VR isolation anyway :)

HTC is very silent about next gen though. However price drop might indicate their moves to show or at least drop info about next gen soon enough.

When the Rift project begin, the target price was 300 US dollars. I made plans to buy it as soon as possible. Then it was 350, witch cool me down but still wanted to buy it. And then the thing jumped to 600 and I give it up.

Since I live in Brazil, to import the thing I have to pay 60 % (!!!) in taxes over its price and shipping. Yeah, it is that expensive to import things over 100 US dollars here in Brazil.

So, unless those things start to be priced around 300, I'm not buying anything. I still want it badly, but I cannot justify paying that high just to play my simulators.


Last edited by M@GOid on 21 August 2017 at 1:34 pm UTC

Nope, still way too expensive for me.

I'll buy it in a heartbeat as SOON as the Linux support is stable and there's at least a few interesting games to play on it (haven't looked too much into the latter yet, maybe there already are).

But no stable Tux, no hard bux.

Lack of pricing policy from Valve shows again.

Also, mainland Europe gets shafted a bit. 600 USD is 509 EUR. Even adding VAT would bring it just over 600 EUR.

There are two major trade fairs in Germany this week and the next: Gamescom will start on Wednesday and the IFA consumer electronics unlimited will follow suit Friday next week. Both have been used to introduce new hardware in the past, so I call it likely we will see some announcements soon.

I'd be willing to shell out 700€ once the support for Linux leaves its infancy. That said, I also bought a Wii U for example and only played 3 games on it, so I might be easy to win over :)

Quoting: GoboThere are two major trade fairs in Germany this week and the next: Gamescom will start on Wednesday and the IFA consumer electronics unlimited will follow suit Friday next week. Both have been used to introduce new hardware in the past, so I call it likely we will see some announcements soon.

I'd be willing to shell out 700€ once the support for Linux leaves its infancy. That said, I also bought a Wii U for example and only played 3 games on it, so I might be easy to win over :)

I bought the original Wii & ended up only playing a single game, the ten pin bowling that came free with the machine.

Quoting: WorMzy

QuoteHas this price cut made you more likely to buy one

Nope. :P

Still can't see VR taking off. The PS4 variant's "only" ~£340, and that's still too much to pay for such gimmicky tech in my opinion.

I think it's far from gimmicky but if you're a really active gamer the content can still be a little limited (even on Windows). The tech itself has a fairly wide variety of uses. Not just your traditional gaming but fitness, meditation/relaxation, new kinds of cinematic experiences, social... What it adds to even just the gaming is not some one-time trick as far as I'm concerned. Being able to look around and interact with the game world with your own hands that are perfectly tracked (as opposed to the hopelessly inaccurate Wii-style motion controllers) is a very powerful interface.

Personally I had pretty much stopped playing games because I no longer found them all that interesting and then came along VR. For me it's been a revelation. I do admit it may not be for everyone but that doesn't mean it's a gimmick either. The recent Oculus price drop has sold a lot of headsets so I wouldn't be so sure about it not catching on either.