HTC to announce Vive price at MWC - Preorders 2/29 - Planned Release April (Update - $799)

[EzekelRAGE]

Update - HTC Vive is $799, Ships ‘Early April’ And You Can Answer Phone Calls In VR - UploadVR
Price is $799
Article in Japanese - HTCのVR HMD「HTC Vive」が日本でも4月に発売へ！2月末より予約受付スタート――その魅力をいち早く体験してきた【レポート】 - S-MAX

MWC - Mobile World Congress

Op taken from here(neogaf)

Article in Japanese so someone might be able to provide better translation

Seems HTC will announce the Vive price at MWC (22nd to 25th), then open up pre order online at their digital shop (29th).

Japan confirmed as one of the countries where the product will launch first

I think they have also acknowledged that high price will be an issue on install base penetration, and they said they have tried to revise the price tag so that the price gap with other VR hmds wont be too big.
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Biggest thing is they had to revise their price so the price gap with other VR hmds would'nt be so big. OR was $599.
So Vive looking at around $800+ right now? Also seems way more advanced than OR though.

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[daze23]

 

[Ciggavelli]

If it's $800 I might jump on this too

 

[Family Lives Matter]

Put me onto game is this a console in its self or do I need other shyt to connect it with

 

[EzekelRAGE]

Put me onto game is this a console in its self or do I need other shyt to connect it with

You will need a PC for the Vive (just like OR, Morpheus only uses the PS4). Most likely a beastly one, but no information on it has dropped yet.

To give you an idea, here are reccomended specs for OR, and the Vive may be way more demanding.
Video Card ---- NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 equivalent or greater
CPU ---- Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater
Memory ---- 8GB+ RAM
Video Output ---- Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output
USB Ports ---- 3x USB 3.0 ports plus 1x USB 2.0 port
OS ---- Windows 7 SP1 64 bit or newer

 

[Ciggavelli]

Put me onto game is this a console in its self or do I need other shyt to connect it with

You need a pc with a relatively high end gpu. This is just a peripheral. You gotta have a good pc too

 

[Ciggavelli]

You jumping in on this?

 

[Family Lives Matter]

You need a pc with a relatively high end gpu. This is just a peripheral. You gotta have a good pc too

I just got that pay rise

 

[Ciggavelli]

Hopefully it's $800. If it's more, I'll probably wait. I already got the Rift coming, so I don't need 2 VR headsets. The Vive looks nice though

 

[daze23]

You jumping in on this?

depends on the price and such

 

[AB Ziggy]

Is VR really worth this much money spent though?

 

[-DMP-]

It's 799.

Who copping?

 

[-DMP-]

 

[daze23]

$800 is what it is. but where's the gamez?

 

[Fatboi1]

$800 is what it is. but where's the gamez?

It'll be similar to the PS4.