{"id":100254,"date":"2016-08-01T09:24:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T07:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=100254"},"modified":"2016-08-01T09:25:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T07:25:58","slug":"playstation-vr-delayed-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/100254-playstation-vr-delayed-in-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation VR delayed in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PlayStation VR has been delayed in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>According to PlayStation South Africa&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/97336-playstation-vr-south-african-launch-date-announced.html\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a><\/strong>, the headset was originally dated to release on 13 October 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The new release date has been updated to a rather nebulous, &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.playstation.com\/en-za\/explore\/playstation-vr\/pre-order\/\" target=\"_blank\">January 2017<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; with pre-orders now officially being accepted by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/btgames.co.za\/po\/poinfo.asp?N17526\" target=\"_blank\">BT Games<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no local pricing for the PlayStation VR as of yet, but it has been announced that it will sell for $399, while the PlayStation Camera will be sold for $60 in the US.<\/p>\n<p>We have contacted Sony and local distributors about the delay, but they had not responded by the time of writing.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Behind Pokemon GO\u2019s missing footprints and why people are so upset\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/100216-behind-pokemon-gos-missing-footprints-and-why-people-are-so-upset.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Behind Pokemon GO\u2019s missing footprints and why people are so upset<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to build a powerful next-gen gaming PC for under R11,000\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/99814-how-to-build-a-powerful-next-gen-gaming-pc-for-under-r11000.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to build a powerful next-gen gaming PC for under R11,000<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The best boardgames of 2016\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/99072-the-best-boardgames-of-2016.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The best boardgames of 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the new launch date for the PlayStation VR in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":92211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585,11681],"tags":[31,15621,5722,1870,143,2163,6477],"class_list":["post-100254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-playstation","tag-active","tag-delayed","tag-headset","tag-playstation","tag-release","tag-south-africa","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100258,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100254\/revisions\/100258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}