After seeing the stock go, how many did they have ready?

[ThreeDeeVision]

Seeing how quickly the pre-orders pushed shipments into May and seeing the order number progression, how many Rifts do you think they actually have ready to ship out at this moment? How many do you think sold yesterday to push shipments into May?

I am guessing they had 10,000 ready and will need to start manufacturing the rest ASAP.

That would mean they got somewhere around 30,000 orders yesterday. Probably well over 30,000 as I am guessing the 30,000 mark pushed them into May.

What do you guys think?

[InuHanyou1701]

charlton_3393 said:

I have seen Palmer say that the Rift is pretty much being sold at cost, I doubt any less than that though

Brilliant. Oculus can't afford the typical "Sell at a loss and make it up on software" mentality when it comes to hardware. Selling at a profit would be better for them but worse for the consumer so this is a happy medium. 

[InuHanyou1701]

christopherbarnhouse said:

InuHanyou1701 said:

 A lot of folks have this vision of a UTOPIAN future where we are all sitting around in our chairs, interacting with our world entirely through VR. 

fify 😜

Hilariously, my computer wanted to auto-correct it to that.  😛

[flyingsaucers]

maxpare79 said:

And then the buyers will try a game with the Move Controllers and say "What the hell is this ..." and never touch VR again, therefore killing the VR industry altogether, thank you PS Move

This comment was brought to you by a former PS Move user 🙂

This is a real concern, imo. But there is hope that Sony will realize that the Move is shit & can't work as VR input. Of course, that'll jack the price up as they introduce Move 2.0 or whatever. Eh, I have faith in Sony. They're smart when it comes to consoles.

[InuHanyou1701]

flyingsaucers said:

maxpare79 said:

And then the buyers will try a game with the Move Controllers and say "What the hell is this ..." and never touch VR again, therefore killing the VR industry altogether, thank you PS Move

This comment was brought to you by a former PS Move user 🙂

This is a real concern, imo. But there is hope that Sony will realize that the Move is shit & can't work as VR input. Of course, that'll jack the price up as they introduce Move 2.0 or whatever. Eh, I have faith in Sony. They're smart when it comes to consoles.

They DID have that patent recently for a glove VR controller. Hope? Smart companies patent things all the time as they come up with them but I can see that coming to market as an actual device someday.