HTC Vive 140.000 sold) – Personal Computer Magazine

HTC has announced the Vive headset 140.000 sold. The vr-goggles is now thick a-half years on the market.

Or the Vive a relatively large sales volume, it is difficult to estimate. Oculus is silent about the number of Rifts, although there are the development versions between 2012 and 2015 175.000 copies were ordered. Sales of the consumer version are not yet made public, while the headset around the same time launched as the Vive.

Flying start

The PlayStation VR is since last week and seems to be off to a flying start. Today, it has become clear that within a week’s time more than 50,000 copies of over-the-counter are gone, at least in Japan. Exact numbers for the rest of the world are not yet known. Sony speaks about “a few hundreds of thousands of copies’.

Profit

HTC saw an increase in profits of 40 percent in the months of August and september. According to analysts, would be that, in particular, thanks to the Vive-sale, in contrast to, for example, smartphones of the company. Recently it was also clear that HTC are going to invest in the development of new vr experiences.

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