Oculus Rift Price Revealed
First up, the Oculus Rift will finally soon be made available to the public! However, there is a catch, and that catch being the price...
The prices went live on Wednesday, and needless to say, many were surprised by the steep £500 price tag which by the way, does not include the shipping costs. Ridiculous, I know!
For the steep £500 price tag you get the Oculus headset, sensor, cables, Oculus Remote, Xbox One Controller and Eve: Valkyrie and Lucky's Tale; both of which are bundled games.
The Rift will start shipping on the 28th March this year, with only one bundle being available to each
customer. The rift will also be made available in 'limited locations' at 'select retailers' in April. Fortunately you won't be charged until the bundle ships, meaning a pre-order will be required in order to retrieve the headset. Oh, expect a shipping charge of around £30 too!
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| You want? Cough up the cash!! |
Another 'Oh', I forgot to mention the recommended specs to be able to run the bundle well! Quite simply, you'll need a decent PC!
Here are the specs in full:
- Graphics card: NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 equivalent or greater
- Processor: Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater
- Memory: 8GB+ RAM
- Output: Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output
- Input: 3x USB 3.0 ports plus 1x USB 2.0 port
- Operating system: Windows 7 SP1 64 bit or newer
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey headed to Twitter to explain why the Rift costs so much...
@PalmerLuckey All the international prices are essentially the converted US price+required taxes, customs fees, etc.
— Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) January 6, 2016
Do you agree with the cost? Is it too much are is the price right?
PS5 On The Horizon?
Next up, can we expect to see the PS5 soon? An analyst reckons we just might!
Playstation consoles have always been huge successes, the PS2 for example is one of the best selling consoles of all time, and the PS4 is soon expected to hit the 100 million units sold milestone. Things are most certainly looking up for the PS4.
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| Do you want to see a new Sony console soon? |
However, as a business, Sony will soon have to look to the future, and well, you guessed it, the PS5 will probably be their answer!
Now don't get your hopes up just yet, the PS5 is most definitely years away. The PS4 only came out a few years ago, and while people are still buying and using the console, there is no need to replace it. Though eventually, a time will come were technology will overtake the PS4, and it will be time for Sony to upgrade.
Michael Pachter, the analyst I mentioned earlier, thinks we may be seeing a new Sony console sooner than we think.
"I would be surprised if we had a next-gen console in 2018; we might have one in 2019. We will have one by 2020, so I think 7 years (for the PS4) is a lock. It will last longer than 5 years."
That may sound slightly confusing, but what he saying is that we will probably be seeing the PS5 by 2020. He thinks that the PS4 will last around 7 years in total before it is replaced with the PS5 and he is expecting the PS5 to last longer than 5 years.
Whether or not we do see the PS5 soon will remain to be seen. I still think that the PS4 has a lot left to offer, so it wouldn't make sense to replace it already. Releasing new consoles is extremelty expensive, so Sony will want to wait as long as possible before doing anything drastic!
The End Of Video Game Piracy?
Finally, could we soon be seeing the end of video game piracy?
In all honestly, I always thought that video game piracy was inevitable, however, the founder of a Chinese hacking forum '3DM' who goes by the name of 'Phoenix' thinks that video game piracy could soon be coming to an end.
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| "I BE STEALIN' YE GAMEZ" |
Only two AAA titles have so far managed to withstand any attempts at cracking them. Those being FIFA 16 and Just Cause 3. How you ask? Well I shall tell, whether you understand or not is another matter, because I certainly don't!
Basically, both games use two layers of encyrption, both of which are called Denuvo. Denuvo protects the DRM within the game, meaning it is a hell of a lot harder for hackers to breach the games' code.
Phoenix recentely said:
"Recently, many people have asked about cracks for Just Cause 3," Phoenix writes. "The last stage is too difficult and Jun nearly gave up, but last Wednesday I encouraged him to continue.
"I still believe that this game can be compromised. But according to current trends in the development of encryption technology, in two years time I’m afraid there will be no free games to play in the world."
So the big hacker dude has said it himself, video game piracy is dying. It was bound to happen eventually, right?
So that's it for this week! What did you think of this week's news? Will you be purchasing the Oculus? Do you want the PS5 soon? Do you pirate video games? Let me know in the comments down below!
As always, thanks for reading!
Connor :)
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