HTC Vive has been out half a year and still hasn't dropped in price

>HTC Vive has been out half a year and still hasn't dropped in price
>Despite being available from several retailers they are all selling it for pretty much exactly the same price without anyone attempting to undercut

Literally how does this work?

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>without anyone attempting to undercut
Retailers want at least some profit.
Why would anyone sell at a loss or miniscule, close to non existent profit?
Especially when they don't have secondary revenue stream attached to the HW like for example console makers with licenses / games.

We wait for the technology to mature. Remember cellphones? Yeah they used to be huge bricks and no one wanted them. Now they're essential to life.

It's almost as though supply is meeting demand
And Sup Forums said VR is dying, really makes you think.

I bet they're sold for a massive markup

Didn't get any cheaper though

What? Of course they did. Halfway through the flip phone era you could get cheap cellphones.

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A top of the line phone is still as expensive as ever,

Lack of competition, I guess. Oculus isn't cutting down either.

Who would pay $400 to get motion sick on purpose?

Yeah, now smart phones, which are a massive step up, are still stupidly expensive.
The poorfag waiting game isn't fun, nor does it make you smarter than anyone, you'll get a 1st gen VR headset for 400 later on and tell everyone with the bodysuits and leg straps for full body VR that they're retarded for having a better product.

msrp
niche merchandise
low profit for both producer and seller

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Still no. Pay-as-you-go phones are like £50. Simple contracts are £15 a month with the phone included.

Like sure, if you're going for a cutting edge smart phone, it will be expensive but we're talking about a phone that just works as a phone.

>Tacking on additional costs
>Implying that you must buy the most expensive option

You are being painfully bias.

Not everybody has wittle baby tum tums that get sick from moving pictures and flashy lights.

Fuck off and let me move around in my goddamn game.

Not everything video game related will drop in price that quickly. They usually do because companies like sony and microsoft ship a trillion units.

>Didn't get any cheaper though

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A new iphone is £700, VR is in no way comparable to a basic phone.

That's exactly what I had in mind. I will wait until VR is at least a size of a pair of shades that project an image directly onto my retina. Maybe we'll even have some fun games by then.

>inb4 such technology isn't possible
Look and your $150 android phone and show it to somebody from 20 years ago.

>>Despite being available from several retailers they are all selling it for pretty much exactly the same price without anyone attempting to undercut

Same reason Sony and Nintendo don't drop the prices for the Vita and WiiU: They may not be selling a lot, but at least are not selling at a loss.


Besides, they can't compete with the PSV on the price aspect. Better shoot for the quality and keep the price high.

iphone is not a basic phone. moto g is times better than that shit and it's like 200. Nobody pays more than 400 for a mobile phone unless they are retarded/have a ton of money and don't care/want something very specific like a very good camera

But we're talking about basic phones.

The most expensive phone you can get now is like $700. Phones used to be several thousand dollars.

You're saying VR will drop in price like phones, but VR are a niche cutting edge product that can't be compared to a basic phone. And cutting edge phones have ALWAYS been expensive.

>Didn't get any cheaper though

They did. First models costed up to 10,000 if you count inflation. But even if you disregard the very first models (which is unfair, since current VR is the equivalent of that phone from 1984 made for rich Japanese businessmen) and take models from 2000 and onward, a phone that costs 500 today is very different from a phone that was selling for that price 16 years ago. It's not like we'll always have a huge shitty brick on our faces and pay 800 bucks for it, same as you're not carrying a 2kg brick in your pocket

don't forget about those golden diamond infused phones
fucking retards complaining they can't afford top of the line luxurious hipster shit

First phones were a niche cutting edge product for rich people who need to stay in touch 24/7 because business. I don't remember that a cell was considered mainstream in the late 80s. Even 10 years later it was still kind of only for people with money to spend. Don't expect VR to go mainstream that fast either.

Price drops wouldnt make sense since they cant make the money back from software sales.

People need to realize that releasing a completely new piece of hardware for the first time in consumer electronics history is not like releasing a videogame. It won't go on a -50% sale by the end of the year.

Well currently the cost of making a vr set is like 200$ and they're compensating for the developement costs atm with the 800$ sales price.
Its not luxury, just first wave of rich folk paying premium to be the first.

>Holla I'm an american company that has just produced an electronic product
>Hol up imma just convert the price from dollars into pound sterling
>Damn yo looking up exchange rates is hard
>Wait I know: $700 -----------> £700

How bad is this vr stuff for your eyes?

>mfw my brothers boyfriend bragged about spending all that money for a vive saying "it's not worth it but hey"

You're missing the point by a fucking mile.

The expensive and huge bricks only operated as a phone. Getting the same thing today is dirt cheap.

Of course smartphones are going to be expensive because you're buying a phone with a tiny computer inside for non-phone stuff.

Consider taxes and shipping for some part of the difference
Amerifriend prices exclude taxes

This is why I buy from Cex

I don't think taxes and shipping would make the price that perfect. On the iPhone they literally just changed the dollar sign into a pound sign.

And besides, it doesn't cost any extra money to ship a product to the UK from China than it does to the US, and that's where all this shit is made anyway.

Things are going to step up now that all the major headsets have the option of motion controllers.

>I bet they're sold for a massive markup

Pretty much all IT hardware is sold for 4-5 times manufacturing costs. And even then the profit margins are razor thin.

Source: Worked at an IoT startup and made a retarded internet-connected device.

Apple seems to be the only one able to have large margins on phones/tvs/pcs.

>I bet they're sold for a massive markup
Doubtful. Initial HW isn't expensive because of parts and labor but because of research and development too.
Apple sell fashion accessories / bling that happens to have a secondary computing function.

I got an s7 edge. You're just a poorfag. In this world you're as valuable as other people think you are. Once you get a big boy job, you're going to have to spend more money to keep up that appearance.

They have the benefit of large volume for only one/two new phones per year. Compare that to Samsung, LG, or Sony who pump out two dozen per year.
Then there's the price, Apple feel that they don't need to have a low price for their premium phones to compete the others. So their consumers don't mind that the phone costs 700 compared to 500-600 for the Samsung.

>Apple sell fashion accessories / bling that happens to have a secondary computing function.

No, they're still very capable devices. More importantly, they have an extremely tight and well integrated ecosystem. I'm seeing more and more Macs in IT companies today, and the amount is ever increasing.

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>hasn't dropped in price
>it's been on sale more or less every other week since thanksgiving
nigga you poor/dumb
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> buys samshit
> not a poorfag

They were pretty essential back then, even when being bricks.

>this image is too subtle
>better put cuck on it somewhere so people will know I don't like it

Yeah, for businessmen and similarly rich folk. Everybody else had to use a payphone.

Found the jealous poorfag. Enjoying your brandless 'smart phone.'

confirmed for literal child.

Because it's already being sold at a loss. You can't just drop the price on something you are literally losing money on.

>being too young to wish how alpha a guy with a phone in his car was
I need a new site to browse

Oh yeah and pagers were a thing too. People had to sms you so you could find a phone and call them.

They're were great for people with jobs.

How can the Vive and Oculus suck at ergonomy so much.
PSVR, the worst VR spec wise is only headset that's actually wearable for extended time periods, not that anyone would do that since there's no content but how the fuck did everyone else dropped the ball so badly?

>buying HIV AIDS
???

The Vive isn't uncomfortable at all.

>PSVR, the worst VR spec wise is only headset that's actually wearable for extended time periods

PSVR is the only VR headset I've tried, if that's the most comfortable VR headset then the others must be truly horrible, since the PSVR wasn't comfortable at all.