PSVR Price Delivers Profit at Each Sale, Sony Exec Claims

I hope they do lol

Wow, all this hate in the comments. I guess people can't read specs.

That's amazing.

This sounds a little too unbelievable really. Sony might have experience in sourcing their parts, the same could be said about HTC that's been selling phones with high quality screens since forever.

How is it possible that two manufacturers, with HTC having direct access to their production lines for their millions of phone screens have such a huge pricing difference?

No shit -its basically a GearVR with an age old method of camera and LED to track positions (ala free track & cam2pan).

I would rather pay a little more for the Rift than get this.... and i did. Oculus will be king of VR in the future because VR is the only thing they put their energy into. Console VR needs another 10 years before it is PC standard.

Just makes me wonder how low quality it is. I think it's already obvious it doesn't compete with Oculus or Vive when it comes to gaming, but if they can sell it at profit at that price makes me worried what the real quality is.

Get ready for your 18fps medium settings VR boys and girls!

Man, how weak must this product be if it's making a profit too...

This makes the future look good for such a product, it means when parts prices come down so can the cost of the unit.

That's good then at least. As long as they push that profit back into VR in the form of top end games it should all be fine.

Sony has been making media headset for years so its not surprising that they can produce at a lower cost and at a profit. All though their media headset were extremely expensive for the time

I'm sure he didn't make a mistake on this, they are profitting on each. With how precise the pricing is on parts, sometimes the profit margin is very small, especially once you cut in the retailers. It wouldn't surprise me if their profit margin was a fraction of a percent.

Also, while both MS and Sony sold their previous consoles at a loss, Wii did not, and none of the consoles now available do (as far as I'm aware). Before then, I don't remember anybody caring, though I'm sure it happened. All things considered, I certainly wouldn't say it's a common place idea now, and I don't suspect it will be in the future, considering how this console generation is going while all the companies are selling for profit.

There should be a certain amount sold before you can talk profits. They must first recoup all R & D, for starters.

Makes sense !! Not really news !!!