I think it is …at least it makes a huge difference for the market size and it makes a difference for my own pocket. Even if there is something “sold out” already. The current price reduces the possible market to below 1% of gamers without any expected earthquake or revolution anytime soon (> 3 years) and from that few ones not everybody would play everything. Some gamers would not play a game with horror elements, some dislike ponys, some don’t like fantasy, some don’t like sci-fi, some don’t like shooters, … If I create a new world I would not play in it alone even if I could shake my head in it and have to pay lots of money to be able to do this first. It’s not just the expensive headset but for many even a new PC. Palmer already wrote that a GTX 970/AMD 290 would not mean automatically max details (Reddit - Dive into anything) but only high. This is some interesting fact if you would invest further money and if you would do this today. I compared current GPUs few days ago just to know what I have to invest any further if I would get this new VR headset. GTX 970 had some strange start with this 3.5/4GB Vram issue, AMDs 290 seems to be a heater and the next better GPUs are still much more expensive. So far it made my decision much easier to skip all of them. You could play pretty much any title maxed out with hardware below this specs and still lots prefer to stay “mobile” and get a weaker laptop instead even if this means the only time when they where mobile was the time when they unboxed their machine and put it on its final destination on the desk. Current mainstream of laptops from the year 2015 that have to play in crappy low or mid quality got a GPU performance that is about the same performance of high-end desktop GPUs from the year …2009? So if any time traveler could read this: If you would get into the timeframe where VR became a serious factor to the common gaming folk then don’t land here.