Oculus Rift and Touch are now $200 cheaper
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Oculus is cutting the price of its Rift headset and Touch motion controllers by $100 each, visit dropping the cost of a complete system to $598. The change was announced today at GDC, alongside a slate of new games that will be released throughout the year. It makes the Oculus Rift significantly cheaper than its main competitor, the HTC Vive, and only $100 more than the current “budget” headset, the PlayStation VR. There’s no retroactive discount for recent Rift or Touch buyers, but people who purchased Touch at full price in the last 30 days will get a $50 Oculus Store credit.
At launch, the Oculus Rift headset alone cost $599, and Touch — a technically optional but very important component — cost $199. The setup also required a gaming PC…
