PSVR On XBox Scorpio?

[Barkley]

zero129 said:

Barkley said:

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

Not sure where you heard the Devkit models made them a profit, I highly doubt a non-consumer version sold at a lower price to shift units and increase supportwith no doubt higher manufacturing costs made a profit.

But even so (And even if i dont believe its costing anywhre near 600 to make the rift i dont buy into PR speak so easy) its like the Oculus CEO said The Rift is a premium device with higher end hardware in it then the PSVR. Do you believe Rift was selling every DK2 unit at a lose?, remember they where using the money they where making from backers buying the Devkits to fund development. How was this possible if they where bleeding money?.

That certainly wasn't the only money they had, it cost a lot more to R&D Oculus and the various versions of it then they made then, and they probably still haven't made a return to date.

And yes I believe the Devkits were sold at a loss, because it makes sense that they'd sell the non-consumer version at a lower price (which they did), and that these prototype versions subject to change would cost more to produce than the final mass produced consumer version.

It's a devkit, they need to get developers on board, they need the device to be supported well before they can release a consumer version, so they'll offer it a much lower price.

And yes I'm sure PSVR will be manufactured at a much lower price point then an Oculus Rift but the Oculus is retailing for 50% more. I don't expect the PSVR production costs to be much less than $400 at all.