HTC Vive gets permanent price cut to $599

Posted on Monday, August 21 2017 @ 13:29 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Some time ago Facebook offered a $399 six-week summer sale on its Oculus Rift bundle and now HTC follows by permanently cutting the price of its Vive VR Kit to $599 (699EUR). That's a $200 price kit for the full bundle with the Vive headset, two motion controllers and two base stations for tracking.

The updated package, priced at $599 for everything mentioned above, includes download codes for Richie’s Plank Experience, Everest VR, and Tilt Brush on Steam, as well as a one-month subscription to Viveport. The Viveport service has over 200 apps available, but you can only pick five to get access to over the course of a single month. It’s sort of like selectively renting content.

“It’s been a long time coming from a planned perspective and we’re very excited about it,” Dan O’Brien, General Manager for HTC Vive in the Americas, said to UploadVR during a phone interview last week. “The first year and a half has been great. We’re very happy with market share from a consumer standpoint. But as we come into Q3 and Q4, we are lowering the price to $599 permanently.” The price should be in effect as of this very minute or very soon after 12:01AM PT.

Via: UploadVR

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