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haxxiy on 06 January 2016
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Zoombael said:

Oh noes! New Technology is expensive! Who could've forseen this?! Nobody i tells ya! Gasp!

 

"Players slowly trickled into other regions around the world. Prices for the first players in 1997 were $1000 and up."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_player

Cheap appeal to ridicule. Not to mention technologies are adopted on basis of cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis. Besides, you forgot to quote DVD prices dropped an order of magnitude three years later, and the market of home video entertainment often is more wealthy than one primarily focused on teen and young adult gamers.

Also, the cost of entry is higher than $599 given the required CPU/GPU hardware. Even PC harware matching the PS4/XOne is ultra high-end taking into account every PC used for gaming out there... not to mention hardware equal or above a GTX 970. A meager 13 million PCs worldwide according to Nvidia. Now imagine the percentage of users who actually care about VR, and among them, those who would bay $599 for a VR device.

So far VR seems nothing but a market-alienating premise.

Edit: lol @ the shameful display of Palmer Luckey on Twitter trying to justify its pricing and international taxes. That's why you hire a decent PR, dude...