Bravo, Sony. Your announcement at GDC this week that PlayStation VR is to cost £349 has shown up Vive and Rift for what they are: instantly outmoded, awkward, unwieldy, absurdly expensive pieces of first-gen tech that have no chance of bringing VR gaming to the mainstream. PlayStation VR just kicked a gushing hole in the *** of years of hype-building from Oculus and rightly placed Vive in a nonsense launch category applicable to the tiniest of niches. Andy House made it all look so simple. Because let’s be honest: who the Sam Rainbow is seriously considering Vive, at $800, to make any serious impact on the fledgling VR market? Sorry, let’s get this right. $800 plus a PC capable of actually running it. Wait, I forgot. You also need an absolute minimum of 2m x 1.5m of space for it to even work. What was that, sorry gold-plated Kinect? Good news for all you Euros in your rabbit-hutch houses. I’ll have three, please! You’re wrong! Look at all the millions of PC owners! Yeah, and, as Brenna noted in our team meeting yesterday, there are millions of PC owners because most of the PCs they’re using are flubber cheap. How many of them pack a €300 graphics card, an i5 and 8Gb of RAM? That’s a rhetorical question. And Rift. I mean, come on. It’s the same deal, albeit slightly less severe. Only 4Gb of RAM needed here, dad. Did you buy that Nvidia GTX 970 I told you about? No? Can’t think why. source
