Playstation VR Hits Gamestop Shelves This Fall
The powers that be at Gamestop are putting their chips behind virtual reality technology. On a segment of Fox News Business, Paul Raines (CEO, Gamestop) has expressed genuine interest in capitalizing on the possible worth of VR segment in the video game industry. He puts a lot of stock in Goldman Sachs reporting on the possible worth of the VR sect being worth around 80 billion dollars by the year 2025. With that, Raines has announced that Gamestop will be preparing a big retail launch for the Playstation VR head mounted display this fall.
He did not give any specific details pertaining to the manufacturer’s suggested retail price, nor did he offer any intimations as to how this will integrated in special retail deals to ensure its adoption attach rate. Nonetheless, the Gamestop CEO has also alluded to giving the same retail treatment to Playstation VR competitors like the Valve’s Vive and the Oculus Rift.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBYnteU3LC4
Gamestop is currently in talks with Sony’s competition about making a huge splash with the burgeoning virtual reality technology. With all of this happening so soon and with this amount of fervor, the next level of gaming may be much closer around the corner than we think.
