Today's VR industry, smartphone industry as ten years ago, a group of players started to enter the industry. Noisy, very lively. HTC vive, Oculus Rift and SONY PlayStation VR is the field of VR the three most famous product. Debate about their three has many, who is better, who can laugh in the end, everyone has a different view. MIT Technology Review a recent paper entitled "why Oculus and need to be careful in the field of VR to HTC SONY?" (according to the Oculus and HTC Need to Watch Out for Sony in VR) of the article points Out that with three advantages, with PS VR Sony will break through in three.
The first advantage - cheap
SONY said at E3, PS VR will be released on October 13, bare machine price is $399 (2627 yuan), the price includes head main body, the ear headphones, and various cable, if collocation PS Camera motion tracking Camera and PS Move controller, for about $500 (3292 yuan) even so, its price than the $599 Oculus Rift and $799 of HTC vive appear to be competitive. The hardware of differences and specific price can see the rocks by love (WeChat ID: ifanr) sorting summary table.
The second advantage - PS VR high-performance PC don't match
Believe that focus on VR knows, PS VR collocation PS4 to use. While HTC vive and Oculus Rift need to match the high-performance PC use. For example, HTC vive suggested configuration is as follows:
Processor: Intel i5-4590, AMD FX 8350 and above
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970, AMD Radeon R9 290 or above
Memory: 4 gb or more
Video output: 1.4 HDMI and DisplayPort 1.2 or update
USB interface: 1 xusb 2.0 and above
Operating system: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 or 10
According to market research firm IHS game industry analyst at Piers Harding - the analysis of the Rolls, such or higher configuration of PC in the world in 17 million. If user separate assembly, may have to spend an extra $1000. In contrast, according to the same Piers Harding - Rolls, estimates and PS VR collocation of PS4 ownership at the end of the year could reach 53 million units, the figure from afar off for the above 17 million. And crucially, a PS4 price above, only a third to a quarter of high performance PC. And PS4 and PS VR can form a mutual promotion sales.
The third advantage - mature retail and distribution network
This, in fact also is easy to understand. On the consoles, SONY has accumulated many years of experience, PS VR can use PS4 channels, sales system, while HTC and Oculus lack such advantage based on the three advantages, Piers Harding - Rolls that PS VR may be sold 1.6 million units this year (the number with SONY own expectations), while the Oculus Rift and HTC vive a total sales of 1 million units. At the end of the essay, the MIT Technology Review also mentions the PS VR there may be a problem. SONY interactive entertainment CEO Andrew House, just worry about PS VR will be out of stock, which will greatly affect the enthusiasm of consumers and the normal pace of sales. Focus on games and VR Gartner analyst Brian Blau are concerned that the long term, SONY can't take out good enough games, in order to maintain the user's interest in PS VR.
Throughout, the MIT Technology Review of SONY PS VR are optimistic. Speaking is unlucky, in two different show, I experienced PS VR and HTC vive. Is short of experience, HTC vive performance is slightly better than the SONY playstation VR, mainly is the picture just fine, perspective altogether, if HTC vive experience is 100 points, the PS VR score is 85 to 90 points. But if you really want to buy, in addition to experience, factors of Chinese users need to think more. Which one of the most important may be the price of HTC vive legal channels version of the price of 6888 yuan, VR legal channels of PS version of the price is unknown temporarily, but based on reference, SONY's $399 price is much cheaper than $6888 for sure. If the product can get products at half price B to one into experience, consumers are calculated how to do that, you can imagine. And now the VR market is still in the pioneer stage, eager to cost-effective among the early adopters of consumers, for this part of the consumer, the attraction of the low price is huge. As long as SONY's not too delay time to market, this part of the consumer choose SONY will be very much. The particularity of the market and China also had to be taken into account. Steam platform may not be able to access news sometimes appear normal, and HTC vive relations with Steam gaming platform is very important. SONY PS Store hard though when entering the Chinese market, but came in performance is stable.
Analysis, however, have more, good or bad, or the public can see clue. Besides, history has told us, wei shu Wu Sangu strive for many years, the last laugh is "jin"; A decade ago, nokia, Moto, SONY Ericsson masquerading in mobile phone market, but are now holding their profits has not issued cell phone apple at that time.
