Both kits are too expensive for the mainstream and require a rather expensive PC as well. So I don’t think 100€-200€ make any difference, especially if you have to pay for those further controllers for the rift later this year again anyway. For me the main difference was 360° freedom with room-scale VR and amazing tracking of the Vive vs Sit-Down-VR. I could not compare the Rift with the Vive so far but even if the controllers come out later this year for the Rift (and if the tracking would be compareble with the Vive) the hole point of using controllers is the ability to move and turn around with them. Like to aim with them if a zombie comes sneaky from your back or if you open the fridge behind you like in job-simulator. I don’t think the Rift is optimized for that type of usage. If I sit down then I have a limited angle to turn around “by design”. But one of the things that impressed me most was that some tiny looking little robots like the robot from Portal2 looks huge if they stand in front of me in my VR-Room. They did not look tiny and sweet again as I remembered them from the monitor but huge and -wow- and made me believe into that new VR-technology. Even if there are already lot of haters I think we are at the point now where VR could not be skipped anymore. It’s too expensive for years for sure and could be improved in various ways but there is no way back. So far I would not get this experience sitting on my chair. I would enter this new world as much as possible. And I think that works better with the Vive for now. Probably Occulus and others would add some room-scale later as well but for now I did not miss anything with the Vive.