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Podcast Beyond Episode 435: Sony Gets Real About Playstation VR

Beyond

IGN

Entertainment News, News, Video Games, Leisure

4.44.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, the video game industry descends on San Francisco for the 30th annual Game Developers Conference, and Sony treated us to the much-anticipated reveal of the Playstation VR's price and release window. Spoilers? It's $399 and it's out this October. We have some thoughts. Podcast Beyond is Max "Hairwolf" Scoville, Marty "Beard Science" Sliva, Brian "Spaghetti Monster" Altano and Andrew "Lil Critter" Goldfarb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode of Podcast Beyond is brought to you by PlayStation View, a new live TV service available through your PlayStation console.

0:06.3

No annual contracts and no surprise fees. Better TV has arrived. Game this system.

0:11.5

Beyond!

0:30.0

Beyond! Beyond! Beyond! Beyond! Beyond! Beyond! Beyond! Beyond! Beyond! Beyond! Beyond!

0:42.0

Please, please! Okay, you started with the weird things. I was on the stepspeed.

0:45.9

Wow!

0:47.3

Podcast Beyond. This is a podcast beyond episode 435. My name is Max Gowel. Joining me today,

0:53.2

we have Marty Sleeva. Hi Max. Brian Altona. What's up?

0:55.6

Andrew Goldfarb. Hey. Yeah.

0:59.7

I'm really not really that sleepy. I thought there was going to be a...

1:04.0

No, no. We're all kind of ragged because this is the week of the San Francisco Game Developers Conference.

1:08.4

And that means it's sort of like finals week. Like all of us are kind of in and out of the office

1:12.1

and the schedule's all screwed up and you're kind of staying up later but also coming in earlier.

1:15.6

So we're currently recording this on Wednesday, early in the morning and yesterday they announced

1:21.2

all the details that we were waiting to hear about on the PlayStation VR. We had a little press

1:25.2

conference over there with Marty. Marty, what do we learn? Sort of the big thing right off the bat

1:29.6

was that we finally got a price and date-ish for PSVR so it'll be launching in the states...

1:37.1

Oh, globally actually, it'll be $399 and it'll be launching in October. They didn't say what

1:41.6

the actual date was but some time in the month of October. Sort of... There's a little bit

1:47.7

of controversy that came out within the hour after this. Wait. So a gaming announcement fostered

1:54.1

some sort of disagreement. So it's 3.8.9 which in comparison to Oculus Revive which are 600-800

2:02.9

seems incredibly cheap but then it turns out you need a PlayStation Move camera in order to use

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