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Virtual reality Playstation arrives in October to 399 euro – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published March 16, 2016 at 08:54.

San Francisco – Andrew House, president and CEO of Sony Entertainment Group rose yesterday at two o’clock on the stage of GDC 2016 in San Francisco to announce the long-awaited news by millions of developers and gamers around the world. The virtual reality of PlayStation will be released next October 2016 at a price of 399 euro (399 dollars, 349 pounds and 44,980 yen), and will only work with the Playstation 4.
“It’s not been easy to achieve this price – said House during the conference – given the expertise and professionalism that have been used to build the product. What was important for us was to give the opportunity to a large number of players to bring the virtual reality of the Playstation in their living room. ” An affordable price when compared to the $ 799 lives and $ 599 for Oculus Rift. Since March 2014, the month and year when Sony launched at GDC San Francisco Project Morpheus to date the company has worked with 230 developers. Yesterday, 20 of them have had the opportunity to present and to experience their works. Rush of Blood: Until dawn, Rigs, Driveclub are just some game titles already available for the Playstation 4 which should be adapted and enhanced for virtual reality (from October 2016 to March 2017 will be available 50 titles).