Oculus Rift.. $599 US - Ships in March.. UDPATE: Now MAY

[JRPGfan]

AEGRO said:

To reiterate, we are not making money on Rift hardware. High end VR is expensive, but Rift is obscenely cheap for what it is.

— Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) January 6, 2016

I have a really hard time believeing that.

Chevinator123 said:
I dont get it. Why is it so expensive? I mean its just a screen, a hunk of plastic and a HDMI socket??

My guess:

a) shes lying to lessend the bad PR right now 

or

b) they really messed up the design of it, or the component contracts.

They where saying for a really long time they would target the mainstream, and the price was going to be around 350$.

Dont think they pulled those numbers outta thin air, I think someone calculated the peices and put it together to get that amount.

Either they where forced to go with a weirdly costly component some places, that drove prices up, or they got the shaft when it came time to contracts on getting said peices of components.

OR 

Shes lying and they are selling them at profits.