I desperately want virtual reality to work so I can play games like Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, Allison Road, the Chernobyl VR Project and whatever Paranormal Activity VR is, only I’m not at all willing to drop $600 for the Oculus Rift, or $800 for Valve’s HTC Vive — mostly because even my high-end gaming laptop wouldn’t be able to do anything with them.
The high price of admission is a legitimate concern for most folks, including myself, but also for the early adopters, who I suspect wouldn’t want to invest in their money in tech that’ll go the way of 3D televisions. I saw a grim future for virtual reality, then Sony shed some light on PlayStation VR.
Sony’s gotten good at these mic drop announcements. My children’s children won’t remember this with the same level of excitement that they’ll struggle to repress when they recall the tale of Sony’s unforgettable E3 2013 presser — in which the company delivered a TKO to Microsoft and effectively “won” this console cycle before it even began — but it’s another good one.
PlayStation VR has been priced at a relatively low $399. That’s the very minimum dollar amount I’ve seen in most projections, the majority of which expected it to fall somewhere between $499-549.
This by itself wouldn’t be enough for me to say Sony’s headset is going to conquer the VR space in the same way the PS4 has with console gaming, even if it’s rapidly approaching 40 million in worldwide sales. I don’t know how many $2,000+ gaming PC’s that are out in the world, but it’s probably less than that.
This article’s beginning to sound like a native ad for PlayStation VR, so I’m going to leave the rest of the conversation to you. Which VR headset, if any, are you the most interested in?
