Pachter: I could see a bundle of PS4 Neo and PSVR for the old PS4 price

[setsunatenshi]

Johnw1104 said:

setsunatenshi said:

no, not shady move by Sony... I already own move and camera, so why the hell should I be forced to buy a bundle with both? 

for people that have neither they can go for the more expensive bundle without hurting all the people that already own the necessary parts

It was done so that they can market it as being $400 with a convenient little asterisk where it mentions you should really purchase the camera and controller separately. It is now listed as $400 all over the place even though, for the vast majority of us who quite reaonsably had no interest in move or the camera, it is much more than $400. Taxes included, most people will now be looking at around a $500 entry fee.

It was a clever way appear to stay under that $400 price point that many felt was too high to begin with while actually coming in a fair amount over.

now we're factoring taxes here is it? i'm pretty sure US prices never take taxes into account on advertising, unless you believe there should be different rules for Sony on this.

again, plenty of people have cameras and/or ps moves, especially the type of people that are more likely to support new tech as well as being hardcore fans of the platform. those will be the first people buying up PSVR when the rest waits in the sidelines to test at their friend's place before buying.