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Alienware gamer PC bundled with Oculus will cost $1,600

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Alienware will “invest” in making virtual reality a hit when it launches on the PC later this year by bundling the Oculus Rift with older PC hardware at a discounted price, a Dell executive said.

Frank Azor, cofounder of Alienware and an executive at Dell, said at a dinner that Alienware will bundle the Rift virtual reality headset with an Area 51 gamer PC for $1,600. That means it will bundle a $1,000 computer with a $600 VR headset. That’s less than you might expect for the hardware, he said.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.