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Oculus temporarily stops selling headsets in Germany

Oculus temporarily stops selling headsets in Germany

VR firm Oculus has halted sales of its Rift and Quest headsets in Germany.

That's according to GamesIndustry.biz, who was told by the Facebook-owned company that this was only a temporary measure and its hardware would be available to German consumers in the future. The social media giant didn't give a timeline for when this will take place.

"We are temporarily pausing the sale of Oculus devices to consumers in Germany. We will continue supporting users who already own an Oculus device and we're looking forward to resuming sales in Germany soon."

The problem seems to stem from on-going discussions with German regulators, with local media Heise Online saying that the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has said that Facebook's decision that Oculus users have to create a Facebook account tied to their hardware was not legal.


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Alex Calvin is a freelance journalist who writes about the business of games. He started out at UK trade paper MCV in 2013 and left as deputy editor over three years later. In June 2017, he joined Steel Media as the editor for new site PCGamesInsider.biz. In October 2019 he left this full-time position at the company but still contributes to the site on a daily basis. He has also written for GamesIndustry.biz, VGC, Games London, The Observer/Guardian and Esquire UK.