(credit: Kyle Orland)
SAN FRANCISCO—At a Game Developers Conference press event Wednesday, Sony announced that its PlayStation VR headset would launch in October 2016 for $399. That price does not include the PlayStation Move camera needed to track the headset, or the PlayStation Move hand-tracking controllers needed for many games.
The finalized announcement comes nearly two years after Sony's virtual reality headset was officially unveiled as "Project Morpheus" at the 2014 Game Developers Conference. Sony announced a "first half of 2016" launch window for the headset at last year's show, but recent statements from GameStop CEO Paul Raines had suggested that date might slip.
The price comes in well below the $599 Oculus is asking for the Rift, and the $799 HTC is asking for the SteamVR-powered Vive headset, both of which will ship to early orderers in the next few weeks. Those headsets also require a decently powerful PC that can cost $1,000 or more—PlayStation VR users only need to invest in a $350 PlayStation 4.
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