Austrian Retailer Reckons Project Morpheus Will Cost €399

Good luck with that price, Sony.

Seriously what were you expecting? It's a perfectly fine price btw. It's about an average gaming TV, a good pair of headphones and about the price of a racing wheel - it's delusional to think it would come any cheaper. And VR is not going to be for the masses anyways regardless of price. I'd get it for project cars alone, so I hope they don't sacrifice on tech to lower the price for the masses!

I expected Morpheus to be around the price of the Console itself. I know its expensive but Sony no doubt will want to recuperate some of the R&D costs.

Personally I am not overly keen on VR, strapping a box over my eyes etc and I can see it being a 'fad' with potentially damaging side effects too

I'm not saying that Sony will be making excuses for its high price but like scollurio said, that's not that bad of a price if you look at the big picture. People spend way more than that on a nice TV and other accessories and I think Sony will try to deliver it while trying to make people realize that

I'm all in on Morpheus. I'll even pay this exorbitant price for it despite being a cheapskate as long as the initial reviews are positive. But it's really going to have to get off the ground quickly as a compelling device at this price point. Sony doesn't inspire confidence with their history of abandoning products like they basically have the Vita and most recently the Playstation TV. Not many people are going to shell out that kind of cash if they think it's going to be a bookshelf warmer with no software if it's not an instant success and thus abandoned by Sony.

At that price(add camera price and couple of games)it will limit an already small niche market, then first party game support will drop as they move to more profitable games on the main systems, as support drops the quantity and quality of games will also. I already see this going the way of the vita. That's not to say I won't buy it I'm always looking for things to blow my bonus on, just reckon I'm setting myself up for a fall.like my launch day vita that's nothing like what the advertising implied it would become.

I have to say I'm also in the 'ok with the price' camp. This is Sony after all and the amount of tech packed into this is enormous. Spending that money on the device is another matter, the biggest question I have is what will I be able to get for my money and do with the device? All games or just VR-enabled? What else? It's the package I will go for and I feel we'll get a sense for what it is a good year into its life.

Also, at this price point the only way to have a chance to sell any reasonable amount of units is Xmas.

I am surprised its not more than that.

I'll be waiting till the price drop's and to see if it does well, only intrested in multiplayer game's on this, if it's only SP i'm out, any decent multiplayer game's and i'll be in and i'll be waiting until the user base is high so probably a year or so after launch.

Maybe the prices are real but I think it's far more likely that this is probably just the retailer testing their holding page for the product. If that's the case I expect the people who put their finger in the air and decided on those prices will have a chuckle when they see this article.

Needs to be £299 at absolute max. £250 would be better though.

At this price this will sell less than PS Move.

Does that price include the camera and move controllers too? I would hope so. I've been looking forward to Sony's VR headset but unless they have some must have games (which I doubt) it won't sell, atleast not at that price it won't.

If it doesn't sell then I can see it going the same way as the Vita. Developers are not going to want to support something that has a small install base.

Virtual reality is dead at that price. £100 max or no one will buy it.

You've gotta be kidding. I just cannot justify over $400 I'm sorry. Hell I have a hard time with $400.

@Scollurio Totally agree. It's actually a little cheaper than I thought it would retail at.

If there are some compelling launch titles then i'll certainly consider picking one up. Would love to see some kind of racing game with Morpheus support. That would be a blast.

@themcnoisy What kind of quality do you expect to get from a VR headset at 100 bucks? Of course I'm all for "the cheaper it is, the better" but it's a new product, developed from ground up and if reports are true it's highly competable with the Oculus, if not better tech alltogether. Of course it doesn't come cheap.

This is KINECT all over again. The original Kinect had that stunning Milo demo, that creepy kid Molyneux invented to interact with (in whatever ways...) and back then the prototype of Kinect had it's own processor. The retail version though skipped the processor and put some extra load for processing on the Xbxo360 itself, thus limiting the use and quality of the Kinect-Experience significantly. BUT it drove down the price. Lots of people had it and chalked it off as "fancy gimick that doesn't work too well" - I don't think thats the road Morpheus should take, right? Price may be a sensible matter, but if the quality isn't there, there is NO future for VR as it is - as many of you already pointed out - a niche market to begin with.

I already knew it was gonna be expensive but I wasn't planning to get it anyways. I'll keep gaming on my TV. Thanks. =D Tho I'm interested to hear what others think about it.

I probably won't be buying this anyway, but seeing that high of a price for it is definitely turning me away from it completely.

@Scollurio it wont sell. Oculus will be aimed at the enthusiast pc gamer and commercial sector in the end and it will become popular. Sony is aiming at console gamers and it wont be. It needs to be £100. Pushing it £150. The equivalent us price is $150/$225

Expect this will be prohibitively expensive for most.

calm down, it's obviously a placeholder price tag...
Sony not yet announce the price....

pice is steep but if it really works than it will be worth it. personally ill wait to buy it until i know there are going to be more than 3 games for it.

I think that will be too expensive of a price. When Christmas time will be coming up, and people begin to fork over prices for consoles, they're not going to pay another heft price for this. I'd pay $200 for it, but even then, with the fact that I have Wonderbook and Move, and they gave up on support for both of them mighty quickly, I don't think I'll step into it until I start seeing the games for it. I'm just afraid that it will come out, and eventually be left in the dust after a year (hopefully I'm wrong on this).