PlayStation VR launching in October for $399
PlayStation has finally announced the pricing for their VR, and it will be available in October and cost $399. They announced it in a short keynote at the 2016 Game Developer Conference in San Francisco.
The price can be considered to be cheap when it's up against the other competitors such as the Oculus Rift which starts at $599 and the HTC Vive which will cost $799. Both of these headsets require high-end PCs that can cost more than the $299 PS4.
Although this price does sound great, there are a few catches that come with it. The VR headset doesn't come with the Move controllers or the PlayStation Camera which is needed to use PSVR. This is because a rep from Sony says that since many PS4 owners have already bought the camera. The PlayStation VR will be available to purchase in bundles which will include the Move controllers and the camera.
Sony has also confirmed the consumer version will include the same specifications that we've already heard before. It will include a 5.7-inch OLED display that can display games up to 120 frames per second, a resolution of 1920 x RGB x 1080, which means each pixel will get full RGB color. The VR headset has nine LEDs for 360° head tracking and Sony claims it has a latency of 18ms.
Sony has also promised that 50 games will be released from October to the end of the year. They haven't given out any more details, but they did announce there would be a VR version of Star Wars: Battlefront that will be exclusive to PlayStation VR.
The PlayStation VR launched two years ago and some of the internals have been changed but the design still looks the same with a strap holding the black and white headset in front of your face. Users can play games with the DualShock 4 controllers or PlayStation's Move controllers. The VR experience might not be the same quality as its competitors, but it will definitely beat them in price.
Via: | The Verge |
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Source: | The Verge |
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Image Credit: | The Verge | TechnoBuffalo |
