It’s like they’re out to prove that they have no remaining shreds of Midwesterness in them.

I love the Gawkerverse, but any time that love starts to blind me to the fact that the staff is almost totally made up of Brooklyn-by-way-of-the-Midwest hipsters who only like things when they’re “obscure” and never quite got out of the middle school habit of hating everything on principle, they make sure to remind me.

This is the exact kinda shit that bankrupted gaming in the mid 80s.

Purposely limiting supplies to not meet demand = Bragging Rights

People want the Rift and VR to be successful, which it isn’t going to be when people don’t buy it because it’s too expensive. And if people don’t buy it then developers are not going to care about making games for it... see Kinect. That is why they cannot sell it for whatever price they want.