This isn't really a benchmark, it's just comparing your specs to a list of hardware they've approved as "Rift ready." Try running the Firestrike demo to get a better idea of your actual performance. Any score over 9000 (really) should get you a good Rift experience.

Nah, that controller can’t add more than $20 to the price of the product, and you could trade it or sell it for more than that.

More like an $800 PC, but yeah.

Hmm....I wonder if my OC’d i5 2500k could sneak in under the wire. My GPU is a hair more powerful than a GTX 970, so that might make up the difference.

Who builds a PC powerful enough to support the Rift, but can't spare 3 USB ports?

Visuals and combat have been greatly improved. The only real problem is that they're still using an old engine, and they made some questionable design choices this time around. But until someone beats Bethesda at their own game people will keep buying their games.

And yet people are willing to live with that stuff because, as I said, these games scratch an itch no other games do. People are willing to overlook a lot of jank for a unique game experience.

Possibly either of those. They need to be able to hit a reasonable consumer price point in order to build a user base. Whether that means streamlining production or reducing the specs I couldn't say without more details that we don't have access to.

Nah. They make games that scratch a particular gaming itch, so their games are always at least decent. They're buggy, and their engine is held together with duct tape, but there aren't many other games offering the sort of gameplay experience they offer.

Yes, but even a typical Bethesda game usually feels like a step forward, even if it's a small one. This is the first time since Oblivion that I've felt like they stepped backwards.

Apparently she's trying to.

Okay, this one is super impressive.

Sorry, but any resolution that prohibits me from reading Gene Wolfe books is right out the window.

That’s nothing. In Mike Piazza's Baseball for the N64 he used to regularly hit 900+ foot homeruns. Usually 3 or 4 a game.

And that’s incredibly stupid. Facebook doesn’t need that money in the short term. They need an install base to inspire confidence in developers, so they can have a profitable software storefront in the long term.

They’re owned by Facebook. Facebook doesn’t need the money in the short term. They should be focusing less on capturing capital and more on capturing market and mind-share, and building momentum and word of mouth. They’ve already acknowledged that the hardware isn't going to make them any money. That means they need…

The confusion around their price messaging is evidence enough that they don’t know what they’re doing. If this thing doesn’t get a significant number of early adopters, it’s not going to get software support. Without new software experiences even the early adopters will drift away from the thing as it becomes just…

RZA is absolutely right.

Nah, you can build a Rift-ready PC for $800 without much trouble.

Luckey's the one who has been running his mouth, not Facebook.