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

[Normchacho]

thismeintiel said:

Normchacho said:

GribbleGrunger said:

AEGRO said:

Shuhei addressed this aspect of the technology. You simply CANT know how the VR works if you dont try it for yourself, there is absolutely no way to show it on video. Thats why on this years E3 there wasnt anything on the conference about the Playstation VR. BUT, they had the showroom full of these things so people could try it.

I know exactly what it does and I know exactly why it cannot be demonstrated on the bug screen, but even taking those things into consideration, I STILL can't get my head around how it will actually feel to experience it. This is the biggest hurdle Sony face.

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.

That's what I think.  The way they have been talking, it seems they are aiming at a $299 price.  At that price sales are going to be an extremely slow burn.  Personally, I think they should try to aim for making little to no profit, maybe they could pull off a price point of $149-$199, and make money off the SW.

Though I do think it would be really successful at $199, I just don't think that's a realistic price. The Gear VR, which is just a shell for the Note 4 or S6, is $199. No doubt Samsung makes some money on it, but PSVR is doing to be a dedicated device that also comes with a Proccessing Unit. I don't think they'll make much, if any money at $299 when you include development costs. Though I also don't think $299 is too high for it to be successful.