Phil Spencer hopes VR isn't the future of gaming.

[Normchacho]

AEGRO said:

Normchacho said:

You could argue price is a larger hurdle, but I imagine the price people would be willing to pay for VR would change drastically depending on whether or now they've used it before.

Whats your take about Andrew House saying that the PSVR will be priced as a "New Gaming Platform"? What would it be your ideal (realistic) price for this thing?

I also think that the price will be the deal breaker to the majority. The tech is proven to be legit, im not worried about that.

If this thing takes out since the beginning, we can expect tons of games from the get go, but if it flops, damn....

A lot of people took that as him saying it was going to cost as much as a PS4, which I think is way off. A new gaming platform could mean a lot of things. But I'm personally expecting it to cost $299. Though that could move a little depending on how it's bundled and what it comes with. It will require the camera, so I'm expecting either 299 for it bundled with the camera, and about $269 without it, or $299 without it and $329 with it.

I think support will also play a huge roll in it's success. I don't really mean the number of VR games either, I mean big games that give the option of using it. I think it could sell better at $399 by having No Mans Sky, Dreams, and GT7 support, than it could at $299 without them.

GT7 actually brings up an interesting point aswell. I view the price issue that VR has differently than most, because I have a racing wheel. My current setup cost me more than $500 and that's $500 in gear just for racing games and there are a lot of people who are in a similar situation. There are entire companies that exist only to supply that group of gamers with really expensive equipment for those games.  So if the product, and the experience are where they need to be, they shouldn't have trouble selling enough VR headsets to justify there existence.

I also think people have different idea as to what constitues a success for VR. I don't know if we'll see real mainstream success for VR for a number of years, but I expect enough success to make further development worthwhile, which will make the products better and bring prices down.

Sorry for the long reply haha