Sony have just announced the release date and price for PlayStation and it’s out October and costs £349. “We’re proud of the price point,” said Andrew House during the presentation, making PlayStation VR half the price of the HTC Vive and $200 less than the Oculus Rift.
There is also an updated Media player app so you can view VR photos, and a new cinematic mode that will let you play normal PlayStation 4 games on a massive virtual screen in front of your eyes, and you can view films in that mode as well.
The device has a 5.7-inch OLED screen with 1920 x 1080 resolution, and nine LEDs which are used by the PlayStation camera to track your movement. It has a 120hz refresh rate, a 100 degree field of view, 3D audio, and latency of less than 18ms.
Both the Dualshock and Move controllers can be used in conjunction with PlayStation VR, but you will need to buy a Move (or dig it out from the back of the cupboard) as the controller does not come as part of PSVR. Sony’s official website is now live and does remind you that you will need a PlayStation Camera as well, so add an extra £40 on to the price if you don’t have one.
There will be fifty games available between launch in October and the end of the year, and The Playroom VR will be free to all those who purchase the headset. Sony have also revealed 230 developers or working on games including Avalanche, Ubisoft, Housemarque, Futurlab, Techland, Ninja Theory, Sumo Digital, 2k, Warner Bros, Oddworld, Capcom, Sega, Bossa, Codemasters, Bandai Namco, EA, and Ninja Theory. And Koei Tecmo, Atlus, Square Enix, Devolver Digital, Harmonix, 505 Games, Rebellion, nDreams, LLamasoft, Double Fine, D3, Polytron, Grasshopper Manufacture, Konami, Marevlous, Level 5, Just Add Water, and Milestone. In other words, pretty much everyone you can think of bar Activision.
PlayStation are also partnering with EA and Lucasfilm to make a Star Wars Battlefront VR experience, details of which will be revealed at a later date. Apart from that they did not mention any specific games so I guess the bets are still on for No Man’s Sky VR.
UPDATE: Amazon preorders start at 11am tomorrow, GAME already have their page up.
JR.
Luckily I already have a PS4, a PS Camera and Move controller. Tempting.
Voolar
Yep, we threw ourselves into the Move thing so, I already have 4 controllers and 2 Move navigation controllers…
So, just the £350 outlay for me (and however much the games are).
Starman
Not a bad price, still yet to see a VR game that I really want to play though.
GoosePies
Cinema mode is very exciting aswell, effectively a massive OLED screen in front of your face for all your PS4 games and DVD’s, Netflix etc.
I can’t wait, now to snap up a few move controllers on the cheap ;)
beeje13
Yep, the fact it can be used for other PS4 games was really important to me, so I would get good use out of it. Even if you don’t like VR you’re getting a 120Hz OLED monitor for £349.
dirtiestturnip
“There is also an updated Media player app so you can view VR photos, and a new cinematic mode that will let you play normal PlayStation 4 games on a massive virtual screen in front of your eyes, and you can view films in that mode as well.”
Yes please. Nothing is more annoying than me trying to play a game that my brother has already played and he watches over my shoulder and constantly ruins it for me.
I wonder if they will add PSVR games to the PS+ line up every month once it is released.