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Old 19-01-2016, 17:29
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Thankfully the $=£ thing died out some time ago.

A $400 price tag should equate €400 and £350. We still get stung, of course, but not as badly as we once did.
Well $600 for the Rift turned out to be €700 so I'm not quite as confident about the pricing. But if PSVR was priced at $400 and it turned out to be less than €500 I'd be ok with that.
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Old 19-01-2016, 17:43
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Well $600 for the Rift turned out to be €700 so I'm not quite as confident about the pricing. But if PSVR was priced at $400 and it turned out to be less than €500 I'd be ok with that.
I've got no idea what's going on with Oculus's pricing structure, I'm just basing my assumptions on Sony's pricing pattern.

PS4 launched at $399/€399/£350, so it seems reasonable to me that they'll follow the same pattern. General rule of thumb seems to be $=€ then minus ~ 15% and rounded off to get £s.

Let's be honest, it's moot until they actually reveal the price though.
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Old 19-01-2016, 17:57
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IT is indeed moot. I called into my local Gamestop today and they're taking pre orders for PSVR. Woop. Just got ta let the missus know and then wait for Sony to do their thing
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Old 19-01-2016, 21:19
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IT is indeed moot. I called into my local Gamestop today and they're taking pre orders for PSVR. Woop. Just got ta let the missus know and then wait for Sony to do their thing
Are you not using your own money to buy it?
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Old 19-01-2016, 22:33
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Are you not using your own money to buy it?
Hell no. Why would I do that ?

This is my belated Xmas present
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Old 19-01-2016, 22:34
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Hell no. Why would I do that ?

This is my belated Xmas present
I need to get myself one of these Irish women, they like to spend and give to their men.
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Old 19-01-2016, 22:44
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I need to get myself one of these Irish women, they like to spend and give to their men.
You can have her for a while after PSVR comes out. I'll be needing some free time around then
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Old 22-01-2016, 11:59
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**RUMOUR**

Sources close to Sony are claiming No Man's Sky will be released on 7th June and WILL be VR compatible.
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Old 27-01-2016, 11:24
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Kickstarter project Apollo 11 VR will be coming to PlayStation VR at launch.

http://youtu.be/f1eZmMZBNIU
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Old 27-01-2016, 12:52
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**RUMOUR**

Sources close to Sony are claiming No Man's Sky will be released on 7th June and WILL be VR compatible.
If it is, it won't look like it does in the demos. However, if they pull it off it'll be quite a coup. I'd get it, the headset and the PS4 I don't have yet as well.

edit: had a Google - NMS won't be on Playstation VR. The compromises they'd have to make would make it look like a PS2 game.
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Old 27-01-2016, 12:55
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If it is, it won't look like it does in the demos. However, if they pull it off it'll be quite a coup. I'd get it, the headset and the PS4 I don't have yet as well.
See I don't think No Mans Sky looks that good (visually) so I think it will run fine on VR.

I also think NMS will be a launch PSVR title. I'd bet my hat on it.
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Old 03-02-2016, 23:17
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Rumour time.

Someone on Raddit is claiming to have been given some information by a Sony rep.

According to them, the headset itself should go on sale for $299.

For those that don't have the PS Camera, it will be available in a bundle with 2 Move controllers and a game for $129.

It all sounds pretty reasonable. Time will tell if it turns out to be true.
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Old 03-02-2016, 23:48
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My local Game are selling the PS4 camera brand new for £39.99 and the Move controllers can be picked up cheap many places so hopefully in this country it wont be a case of changing the $ sign for the £ sign and the proper price is available. Same with the $299.
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Old 04-02-2016, 01:43
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My local Game are selling the PS4 camera brand new for £39.99 and the Move controllers can be picked up cheap many places so hopefully in this country it wont be a case of changing the $ sign for the £ sign and the proper price is available. Same with the $299.
They'd equate so something like £260 and £115.

As much as I'd like it to be true I think it's a little optimistic.
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Old 04-02-2016, 01:56
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Rumour time.

Someone on Raddit is claiming to have been given some information by a Sony rep.

According to them, the headset itself should go on sale for $299.

For those that don't have the PS Camera, it will be available in a bundle with 2 Move controllers and a game for $129.

It all sounds pretty reasonable. Time will tell if it turns out to be true.
Hold on FF.

The headset alone is 300 beans. But you can get the headset, camera, two controllers and a game for 130 beans ? That can't be right. You'd basically be getting the headset for free in that bunduru.

300 sounds fine for the headset tho. That might be around €350 for me which is perfect. I'm just hoping for €400 or less.

I've been toying with the move controllers. Will I get the PS3 ones or wait for shiny PS4 ones. I'm leaning towards the PS4 ones.
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Old 04-02-2016, 02:06
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I hope the camera bundle is reasonable. I'd love to try the VR out first though just to see what it is like because I've never tried anything like it before. I tried to use a cheaper one but it wouldn't work in the shop.

I think if the PS3 ones work fine then they will do for me.
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Old 04-02-2016, 02:15
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And then the penny drops.

The $130 bundle doesn't include the headset. That's seperate.

Duurrrrrrrrrr !!!!!!!!!
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Old 04-02-2016, 07:39
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And then the penny drops.

The $130 bundle doesn't include the headset. That's seperate.

Duurrrrrrrrrr !!!!!!!!!


It does highlight a problem though. Sony / retailers might have a tough time communicating to customers what they actually need to get started.

There would doubtless be some people who get a headset home to find it's useless without going back and spending more money on a camera etc. Cue Internet raging.

But at the same time, it would be unreasonable to bundle the whole lot together and make those of us that have a camera buy another one we don't need. Also, they need to get that entry price point as low as possible if they want to be successful.

This does seem the most likely way to do it.
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Old 04-02-2016, 17:42
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Talking of which do you actually need Move controllers? I thought the light bar on the Dualshock 4 replicates the Move controller.
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Old 04-02-2016, 17:58
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Talking of which do you actually need Move controllers? I thought the light bar on the Dualshock 4 replicates the Move controller.
It does to a point, but Move will be better for fine, subtle movements.

Also, with games that replicate using 2 hands in the VR world a pair of Moves is going to be much easier to wield than trying to clutch a DS4 in each hand.

There's an interesting chart which shows all the various controller combinations available for local multiplayer games in VR.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CaYvuoXX...jpg&name=large
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Old 05-02-2016, 00:26
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Talking of which do you actually need Move controllers? I thought the light bar on the Dualshock 4 replicates the Move controller.
If you wanted them cheap, CEX are selling them for £10 each. The navigation ones are another tenner on top but unsure if they'll be used yet.


Edit: so after writing the above I checked CEX Ireland and the Move controllers are only €4 and the navigation ones €3.50 so I got two of each. One step closer to been VR ready. Just a headset and games to go
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Old 05-02-2016, 18:35
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So Sony VR comes with an add on box to do some of the additional processing required to get the images to the headset... Well, I wonder if this could be used in the future as additional processing for non VR games. Let the PS4 do the number crunching and the add on box take on some of the graphics work. Could we be looking at a two tier market for game? Those that require and those that don't require the add on box.

Any thoughts?
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Old 05-02-2016, 19:58
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So Sony VR comes with an add on box to do some of the additional processing required to get the images to the headset... Well, I wonder if this could be used in the future as additional processing for non VR games. Let the PS4 do the number crunching and the add on box take on some of the graphics work. Could we be looking at a two tier market for game? Those that require and those that don't require the add on box.

Any thoughts?
Unlikely.

The external box doesn't seem to do any graphics processing. It appears to

- Handle the 3D audio
- De-warp the video for display on the TV for single player games
- Enable splitting of the 2 video streams needed for the asynchronous multiplayer games.
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Old 06-02-2016, 10:29
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I still have my two move (and nav) controllers in a drawer somewhere, lets hope they still work!

Might be worth grabbing the PS cam now if I find it anywhere cheap.
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Old 06-02-2016, 12:21
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Unlikely.

The external box doesn't seem to do any graphics processing. It appears to

- Handle the 3D audio
- De-warp the video for display on the TV for single player games
- Enable splitting of the 2 video streams needed for the asynchronous multiplayer games.
Yeah are probably right as it will be connected by HDMI. But I guess only time will tell.
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