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by JavaScriptrr 3750 days ago
The question is: why not lose money on the hardware, to accelerate distribution and put an awesome device in people's hands and then make money on software. So my suggestion would be to sell the $399 devixe for $99. Not push out something crappy
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Come on Javascript (no pun intended), they'd lose money very quickly. They are already below the price tag of the competition.
Currently they are the cheapest, and it's easier to reduce prices than to increase them, so maybe they are saving that for later, especially when they learn more about game sales and the business ?
Occulus VR doesn't make money from selling you a Rift.