Sony’s upcoming Project Morpheus will set you back ‘several hundred dollars’ at retail, Shuhei Yoshida, the President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios (SCE WWS), has revealed.
Speaking to Wired, Yoshida-san said the console manufacturer understands it must convince punters to drop their cash for the headset—and that fresh content is the key to achieving this.
"We need to convince PS4 owners to spend several hundred dollars to purchase a Morpheus headset, on top of the PS4 they already have,” he commented. “More gaming content is what will convince them. We have 30 or more games being developed that we are tracking — not all of them will come out at launch, but there are serious efforts being made on all of them.”
“Developers have such great access to VR tools in general, they’re just throwing everything at the wall,” added Adam Boyes, Sony’s Vice President of Publisher Relations.
Sony has previously said that Project Morpheus will be positioned at an ‘affordable‘ cost and will be released in the first half of 2016. The device’s price was recently posted on an Austrian retailer, though this has been unconfirmed by Sony.
Expect more details on Project Morpheus to arrive at E3 this week. Be sure to keep checking our coverage hub for all the latest news.