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I agree with you on the marketing but I feel like we get so much more with our 600 dollars than Vive purchasers get. We get an Xbox One controller with the wireless dongle that works on Windows 10. That is a 90 dollar value. Then you throw in 3 games worth another 100 dollars and the price of the Rift seems very reasonable. All you get extra with your Vive is some large Sony Move type controllers and "Job Simulator" :smile:
I have a feeling that the decision to wait on releasing them until later was (partially) for price appearance. I think the Touch controllers would have pushed that $600 price up to the $800 VIVE price point and therefore the competitive advantage the Rift has in that arena would have gone bye bye.
It's actually brilliant. The hype and excitement also gets revived when the touch controllers come out and it's a completely different product and price. Psychologically it will make it a lot easier for gamers to buy them as the $600 they spent months ago is already long gone.
03-28-2016 02:05 PM
Maxxgold said:
comixcroz said:I agree with you on the marketing but I feel like we get so much more with our 600 dollars than Vive purchasers get. We get an Xbox One controller with the wireless dongle that works on Windows 10. That is a 90 dollar value. Then you throw in 3 games worth another 100 dollars and the price of the Rift seems very reasonable. All you get extra with your Vive is some large Sony Move type controllers and "Job Simulator" :smile:
I have a feeling that the decision to wait on releasing them until later was (partially) for price appearance. I think the Touch controllers would have pushed that $600 price up to the $800 VIVE price point and therefore the competitive advantage the Rift has in that arena would have gone bye bye.
It's actually brilliant. The hype and excitement also gets revived when the touch controllers come out and it's a completely different product and price. Psychologically it will make it a lot easier for gamers to buy them as the $600 they spent months ago is already long gone.
03-28-2016 02:21 PM
notsram said:
Maxxgold said:
comixcroz said:I agree with you on the marketing but I feel like we get so much more with our 600 dollars than Vive purchasers get. We get an Xbox One controller with the wireless dongle that works on Windows 10. That is a 90 dollar value. Then you throw in 3 games worth another 100 dollars and the price of the Rift seems very reasonable. All you get extra with your Vive is some large Sony Move type controllers and "Job Simulator" :smile:
I have a feeling that the decision to wait on releasing them until later was (partially) for price appearance. I think the Touch controllers would have pushed that $600 price up to the $800 VIVE price point and therefore the competitive advantage the Rift has in that arena would have gone bye bye.
It's actually brilliant. The hype and excitement also gets revived when the touch controllers come out and it's a completely different product and price. Psychologically it will make it a lot easier for gamers to buy them as the $600 they spent months ago is already long gone.
Depends how much the Touch controllers end up costing. I suspect they won't be cheap. $200 absolute minimum is my guess.
03-28-2016 02:28 PM
Maxxgold said:
notsram said:
Maxxgold said:
comixcroz said:I agree with you on the marketing but I feel like we get so much more with our 600 dollars than Vive purchasers get. We get an Xbox One controller with the wireless dongle that works on Windows 10. That is a 90 dollar value. Then you throw in 3 games worth another 100 dollars and the price of the Rift seems very reasonable. All you get extra with your Vive is some large Sony Move type controllers and "Job Simulator" :smile:
I have a feeling that the decision to wait on releasing them until later was (partially) for price appearance. I think the Touch controllers would have pushed that $600 price up to the $800 VIVE price point and therefore the competitive advantage the Rift has in that arena would have gone bye bye.
It's actually brilliant. The hype and excitement also gets revived when the touch controllers come out and it's a completely different product and price. Psychologically it will make it a lot easier for gamers to buy them as the $600 they spent months ago is already long gone.
Depends how much the Touch controllers end up costing. I suspect they won't be cheap. $200 absolute minimum is my guess.
Yeah, you could be right. I'm okay with 200 though. I think the touch controllers are going to be incredible compared to the Vive controllers. Everything my dev friends have told me leads me to believe that assumption. And like I said above, when you throw in all the extra stuff, it's pretty reasonable. Well reasonable for me anyways.
03-28-2016 02:47 PM