Oculus Rift is “Obscenely Cheap”, International Prices “Not Artificially Bloated”

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Concerned about the price point for Oculus Rift for which pre-orders recently went live at $599 for the United States and £499/€699 in Europe? Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey took to Twitter to address criticisms of Rift being overpriced, noting that when it comes to international pricing, there were certain requirements that had to be fulfilled.

“International Rift prices are not artificially bloated – we have to cover the required taxes, sales tax in USA works differently. In fact, some countries are getting a slightly better deal than the US, all things considered – remember, we have per state sales tax.”

Luckey also noted that, “To reiterate, we are not making money on Rift hardware. High end VR is expensive, but Rift is obscenely cheap for what it is.”

It also seems that some orders “may see their ship date move forward as fraudulent orders in queue are weeded out.”


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[blaaislaai]

Rediculously expensive for us down in SA.

Even worse now that the dollar/rand exchanged touched R16 per dollar this morning

[Tom]

Im really interested to see how the PS Morpheus compares in price, and performance... Sony have been known to sell Hardware at a loss to make it up on the games, I think we could see a similar situation... The VR Headset cant cost more than the console... that would be a bit ridiculous...

[Space_Chief]

The PS version will sell well in Asia/JP and would in the US, if Dead or Alive Extreme 3 was localized in Europe/US. Still the Asian HK version has English support so we may see sales boosted by that.

[Grievous]

Its expensive, but don't think its that bad, considering people who have setups for racing games with 3 screens. The only thing is, its going to be way worse once they tag on our import duties (Assuming down the line they ship here or someone else brings them in)