PS4's VR Headset Not as "High-End" as Rift, Palmer Luckey Says

@Frozzik: He's definitely right.

@Daelusca: And by 10 he means thousands. $600 is a meaningless amount of money to people who spend $200 on keyboards that don't work any better than $5 keyboards. I myself will be buying an OR when I get my new machine and I'm definitely not rich.

@Daelusca: I hate kinect and could careless for that shit I owned a xbox360 on release date all those year's ago I am only 25 now and I have a high end cpu and a ps4 still got my 360 tons of games loved it but kinect never cared for that garbage.

@cavethug: Alot of what you said is true but saying alot of gamer's pc are on par with ps4 is wrong very wrong bro it wouldn't be a gamer pc if the specs wore on par with ps4. I love my ps4 but my gaming pc blow's it out the water and everyone I know that has an actual gaming pc ps4 doesn't come close to touching it but who care's just enjoy the game's I hate that pc ps4 xbox fan boy shit.

@kadin_kai: I'll wait until someone who isn't an employee at one of the companies has tested all three and then gives acurate and honest reviews. To my knowledge that hasn't happened yet. It seems it's employees or companies just firing off salvos at one another.... And these game review websites are no different. Look at IGN, they get advertising money in bulk from any producer pumping out a AAA or AAAA game. Show me one of them which dished out big bucks in advertising, who ended up getting a review below an 8. It has never happened. Look at Call of dooty, each year it's the same drivel, no innovation, yet every year it's at the least a 9.5... while a game like battlefield which does innovate and improve, for example frostbite and destructible enviroments, which it's been doing for a decade now... never rates higher than cOd. Another example would be game informer magazine... It's owned by Gamestop, so is it ever going to give a bad review, or preview to a game which is expected to sell? Or a game which puts out big bucks in advertising? no.

@Gatorjosh14:

You sir, are going to be eaten alive (or would if this story were just now breaking) for being reasonable enough to suggest, that even if PSVR games don't look as good as the highest end PC games in the world, they can still look "good".

The only way to save yourself, is to edit your comment to say that PSVR's "graphics" will be a joke, and look no better than N64.

This isn't specifically directed at you, but-

Take "London Heist" for example. I've personally played it. Myself, me, in person, in real life. Did it look as good as say, the newest "Call of Duty" (I don't even keep track of the names anymore) on PS4? Nope. But, did it look as good as a game from the end of the PS3 generation? A game like, say, "The Last of Us"? Or, even better than some earlier PS4 games like "Thief"? Yup, sure did.

I'll tell you one thing, I own both a DK2, and a Gear VR, and while I've felt a little bit of "presence" before, my time with "London Heist" was the very first time I felt like I was really, truly, "there". It was the first time I'd hidden behind a virtual desk, and even being as much of a "VR veteran" as is possible at this stage, was afraid to pop my head above that desk, because I literally felt "fear". I felt that I was being shot at. I don't know that it's possible for "horrible PS2 graphics" to effect a person on such a psychological, or physiological, level.

Are people incapable of looking up videos of "London Heist", "The Kitchen" or "Eve Valkarie PSVR", then watching them and saying, "Oh, ok. I see. High end PC graphics this is not, but WOW, it's a hell of a lot better than I thought PS4 could do based on it's specs, this doesn't look like PS2 at all. They must have figured out some really cool tech for this thing."

No, they're not incapable, just unwilling it would seem.

Instead, they'd rather disregard everything that everyone who's actuality used the headset (and written about it), has to say. Rather than do the simplest Google or YouTube search, they'd much prefer to come to a comment section on the internet, and spew a bunch of total garbage on a subject that they have ABSOLUTELY ZERO knowledge on, and say things like (yup, all real things, said in this very site's comments section)-

1. "It's not physically possible for them to add an extra processor" *It's been proven that they have.*

2. "They'll never do any better than early PS2 graphics at best" *videos already show far better.*

3. "They can't get above 30FPS, it's going to make so many people sick" *Everyone who's actually used it says this isn't true*

4. "PS4 isn't capable of running VR. End of story" *It apparently is, as Sony has created a VR headset for it*

5. "PSVR IS complete garbage. Period!" *from someone who's admittedly never tried it*

What the Hell is wrong with people??

I work in "the industry" part time. No I'm not claiming to be famous, no you haven't heard of me, and no I'm not claiming to be something I'm not. I'm a freelance Writer, and a few times a month I get lucky and somebody pays me $30-$130 for an article I wrote.

The point on me telling you all of this is as follows:

I've been playing console games since I was five years old (I'm 30 now). I've always owned whatever the 2 or 3 competing consoles of the time were, on their respective launch days. No, I'm not rich, nor am I poor, I just save, and buy. Upon deciding that I'd like to try to make a go of making money working in an industry which I love, VR was just starting to potentially become a "thing". As such, I felt that in order to give myself a better chance at being successful, I'd need to invest in (at the time) a DK1, and later, a DK2, and therefore, a powerful gaming PC.

In my just under two years of modern PC gaming, I've enjoyed the experiences that I've had playing games which admittedly, showcase both better visual fidelity, as well as higher frame rates than that of their console counterparts.

What I haven't enjoyed however, is the unbelievable multitude of complete assholes I've met.

I've been lucky enough to be involved with, and write about, so many neat things in my short time on earth. From cross-country motorcycling, to travel, to outdoor adventuring, to tech reviews on flagship mobile handsets, to visiting the headquarters of, and interviewing some of the neatest minds in tech and game design. That's not to say that all of this has made me money. In fact, I've likely spent *far* more money in pursuit of a career in this industry, than I'll ever make back. That's ok though, because it's my passion.

Where am I going with all of this? Well, the unfortunate fact is that, out of all of those industries, and all of the associated folks I've met, I've never met a group of people who "know" so little, but who proclaim to "know" so much, as PC Gamers!

Please understand, I'm not intending to make a blanket statement about *all* PC Gamers (despite the fact that I pretty much did). I've met, and continue to meet, some fantastic people on various online gaming services (mostly Steam of course). However, as a whole, I've met nary a group of people with a higher percentage of hateful individuals, spitting hateful (and typically incorrect) vitriol about others as I have in PC gaming.

I was so excited when all my various parts arrived. As I assembled my PC, I was ecstatic. I just kept thinking, "YES! Now I'm one of the "big guys". The serious gamers who know what they're talking about." Yet, that enthusiasm was quickly dampened, crushed even, when just listening (not even participating) to the conversations of others on servers, message boards, forums, comments sections, Reddit etc.

Dozens of times It's made me log out, turn off my PC, and plop down on my couch on Xbox Live, or PSN, throw on my headset, and talk to -aside from the occasional 10 year old shit talker- people who actually.... just..... love..... games.

Why is that? Why do I hear console gamers online talking about the games, the secrets, the exploits, the glitches, the best hiding spots, the biggest future releases they're excited for, the games they loved 10 years ago, yet, all I hear PC Gamers talk about, is how much console gaming sucks?? Why is that?? It's really ruined what I thought was going to be a great experience.

Maybe you can't answer this. Maybe you even disagree. That's ok. This is just one gamer's observations. One gamer's opinion.

Lastly however, I do feel it relevant to note, that this recent stint of PC gaming isn't my first. As a young man, I used to dial up (yes, I mean *dial* up) my buddies, through our 56K modems, until our two machines finally connected and enabled us to play deathmatches of Doom, Redneck Rampage, and others. I also gamed on steam as a young man, back when Steam was fairly new, and "Half Life 2 deathmatch" was blowing us all away.

In both cases, it was fun! Nobody talked about how shitty consoles were, and how people who played on them were "losers". We all had, and loved, consoles. We'd sit on our PCs, and talk through our headsets all night about the best console games that we were playing, or were excited about getting. We didn't care that the graphics were worse, or that there might not have been an "online mode". We were "gamers". We loved games. We welcomed all gamers to our fold.

What happened? What changed in the interim between when I stopped PC gaming, and when I resumed? It used to be that if you played VIDEO GAMES, you were part of the same "club" as the rest of us. You understood us. You respected us. You got the same in return.

Why do PC gamers need to shit on console gamers? Why do Xbox One gamers shit on PS4 gamers, who in turn shit back on Xbox One gamers?

When did the fact that a characters hair flows more realistically on your system, than it does on someone else's system, make their system "garbage", or negate the fact that you were both wrapped up in that characters fantastic storyline, the locations you explored with that character, the experiences and memories you created "living in their shoes" so to speak?

What the HELL happened???

And why??

@callofduty541: This is like over 30 years old tech just enhanced for closer to our modern gaming but it's not gonna work it's still too expensive and I cant imagine putting this on will be good for you eyes or neck.

@Speranza318: $600 will get you 4k easily on anything but the brand newest game.

@Speranza318: I think what they are not getting is, if you buy a high end GPU you can use it to run all existing games better. But after you spend this kind of money on the Rift, you then still need games to use it with (because games need to be developed for VR specifically).

Normally this scenario needs a different approach, where the cost of entry need to be cheap enough, in order for that new content to thrive in the first place. Smaller install base will yield less developer interest.

@Speranza318: psvr is 120 fps, rift is 90 fps...

@Speranza318: The Rift wants 90 fps not 60. Heck even the DK2 Rift wanted 75fps. Maybe I’m not understanding you’re comment correctly.

@Lacerz: PSVR is has an interpolation unit, basically a very small processor. The graphics work is all handled by the PS4.

@sargentpsgamer: $1500 is for the pc and oculus rift

@DrunkenPunk800 I say if there was a World Masturbation Championship, . This would be the name of the champion. He would be competing against Harry Palm of course. >_<

@Kabal26: Yup, same here. Not much of an early adopter; just wait till the prices come down