Valve Index 2 (codenamed Deckard) Standalone
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have to agree with @Ravenger closer to £800 than £400 would be my guess as well.. They just don't have the manufacturing clout of a Meta.. and they only just get the Q3 below £500..
I was thinking sub £400
I ain't paying more than that. It ain't even OLED ffs. What makes it worth £800? Maybe I am missing something?
No your not, I can’t see this going anywhere if it’s not priced similarly to the quest.
Meta doesn’t have the manufacturing clout either, they are a software company that makes nothing else.
Steam Deck OLED is approx £500, and that is a lot simpler than the Frame.
Valve mentioned there will be a 256gb and a 1tb version so perhaps the 256 would be a bit cheaper than my estimate.
Can't see it being less than £700, though I would love to be proved wrong on that.
Valve mentioned there will be a 256gb and a 1tb version so perhaps the 256 would be a bit cheaper than my estimate.
Can't see it being less than £700, though I would love to be proved wrong on that.
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What gets me is the people who are using Rift S or Civ 1 headsets give out about Meta and about how they will never get any of my data and they aren't getting any of my money.
Hello?? they already have your data and you are currently using one of their headsets!!
People are stupid.
Like Glenimp says, you will have to replace almost the whole thing. There is a proprietary connector too. 3rd Party Headstraps are going to be expensive!!
The Steam Frame is all about the Wireless, no wired PCVR. I won't say for a 100% that it will never have wired connection. It might come later using that proprietary connector mentioned above. But I doubt it.
It's not going to come close to the £470 price point. I can almost guarantee you that. By the sounds of all the talk coming from the various first impression videos, they are struggling to get it under the $1000 price point. I think it's going to be $999, only so they can say it's under $1000
I think it's going to be £999. By the time you add Vat and Shipping to the US price it will be close to £1000.
If it does release at that price point then it'll have quite a short half-life. Perversely, if they made this device the only way to play Half-Life 3 then they might sell more, begrudgingly.
I agree, I think the people who would pay £1000 for a Headset would have no trouble paying more if it had better panels and was powerful enough to be able to play even demanding VR games standalone.
I wonder will they have some kind of Half Life Standalone VR game as a launch title when it releases?
It will be on a ROM chip built into the headset
If it does cost almost a grand (I'm going to guess ~£850-£899) then I don't know who this headset is aimed at.
If it is that price then it's too expensive for VR newbies and mainstream, and it's just not a good enough headset for VR enthusiasts. 6 year old+ LCD panel tech and low res? Come on man.
If it is that price then it's too expensive for VR newbies and mainstream, and it's just not a good enough headset for VR enthusiasts. 6 year old+ LCD panel tech and low res? Come on man.
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So is this device DOA? sounds like it with the amount of negative comments about it!
Hi, Meta kinda does have manufacturing clout, in that they can make an order for headsets to be manufactured in the millions instead of the lesser amounts of other brands, which means bigger/longer contracts for the manufacturers, which they prefer.
I really hope Valve shocks everyone and prices it really competitively but doubt they will. Just can't see past that resolution in 2026 and crap passthrough.
Tbf the Q3 still looks really good imo at a similar resolution. From experience I can say (imo) 2K LCD panels + amazing lenses is better than 4K OLED + sub-par lenses.
The quest 3 is not exactly a high volume product. It’s done about a million units.
Steam deck has sold about 4 million.
Sure the latter has been out a lot longer but the quest 3 outsold the 2 and the 1 so combined the steam deck has probably sold more units still.
I just can’t see a world where Meta has more manufacturing clout than valve. Both have a little bit but they are very similar in reality and neither ships that much in terms of volume.
They’ll need to price it competitively or it’s DOA.
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It'll sell at that price, but it won't hit general public attention.
You keep saying 1 million, but that was reported over a year ago, only 8 months after launch.
That also ignores the quest 3s, which looks like it sold over a million as well by a year ago.
Not sure where you're getting your figures from, I think Q3 has sold more than that and afaik the Q2 alone sold about 20 million, it out sold the equivalent Xbox afaik.