Oculus Rift $599

Oculus Rift preorders are now underway on the Oculus website, finally revealing pricing for consumer versions of the VR headsets, which will be $599.00, though as previously announced, credit cards will not be charged until these are shipped. Word is these will ship in March, and the bundle includes a wireless Xbox One controller along with the headset. There is some backlash over the price of the units, so it will be interesting to see how that impacts orders.
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DangerDog wrote on Jan 6, 2016, 17:12:
At $599 and they're not turning a profit at all, I would really like to see a breakdown on the manufacturing cost. Perhaps they're figuring in the software development cost plus there's going to be a loss of profit for warranty repair which I'm guessing is standard one year?

I'm thinking they are getting dunked on the screen costs. I doubt they even have a choice of manufacturer for those. I think the only one who makes screens applicable to their design is Samsung. The real issue there is, if thats the case, then no competitor is going to be able to drive the cost down much without cutting features and simply making a lower end product.
Do you have a single fact to back that up?
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