HTC Vive’s first ever price drop lasts just one day this week

Nearly one year later, we’re still not tired of using this image of Ars UK’s Seb Anthony to illustrate Vive stories.

For nearly a year now, HTC’s SteamVR-based Vive headset has remained stubbornly set at its launch price of $800. That will change for a single day on Wednesday, when HTC has announced it will lower the Vive’s price to $700 in celebration of the headset’s first anniversary (down from £689 to £589 in the UK).

The one-day sale comes a month after Oculus permanently lowered the price of its Rift headset from $600 to $500. While the pricier Vive package comes with a pair of hand-tracking controllers, Oculus also lowered the price of its own Touch controllers from $200 to $100 last month, making the Rift package significantly cheaper in an apples-to-apples basis.

Alongside the brief price drop, HTC will also be rolling out a new subscription-based software program on April 5. For $7/£7 a month, a Viveport subscription will let players “choose five titles from an ever-growing library of curated content,” on HTC’s Viveport platform (which is distinct from the SteamVR interface many Vive owners use). Viveport users can try a free one-month trial of the service and choose from among 50 different titles to start.

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