Quest Pro drops to $999, Quest 2 256gb to $430

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Quest Pro Price Cut To $1000 Just 4 Months After Launch

Quest Pro's price is being cut from $1500 to $1000 just four months after launch. The price of the 256GB Quest 2 model is also being reduced, from $500 to $430.
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The Quest Pro has dropped $500 to $999.

Sucks a bit for early adopters like myself but I'm glad it dropped as hopefully more people will buy one and it'll be better supported.

The 256gb Quest 2 drops to $430

Not sure what the UK prices will be.

Edit: Apparently goes down 5th March in US & Canada, 15th March rest of the world.
 
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I can see a lot more people are interested now at that price. At $999 it's competing directly with the Index, and parks Meta's tanks on HTC's lawn with regard to the HTC Vive XR Elite.
 
Unseul said:
It wasn't really aimed at common consumers before though, I'm wondering if this change to to try and induce consumers to buy it. Depends on just what's missing from the q3 vs the pro. I'm guessing pro controllers, and miniled screens won't be on the q3.

The "big" issue will be software I reckon. Though with 20 million q2's sold, I cannot imagine a developer not bothering to produce for them. There's also a rumoured very cheap meta headset coming in 2024, and I'd guess that's more or less going to be a relaunch of a q2, with a few tweaks, but still not as powerful as the q3.
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Reminds me of the Amiga 1000 which was originally promoted by Commodore as a business computer, but it was actually the best games machine on the market.

Someone pointed out that it's like the Pro is a pair of running shoes, but was marketed as a pair of work shoes. All the runners aren't interested in work shoes, but they'd buy running shoes, and the workers who wanted a pair of work shoes got a pair of running shoes that weren't really suitable for work.
 
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Bos the head of VR at Meta has said the Pro will be on the market for a long time.

It even looks like Quest 2 might continue alongside Quest 3 for a while at least.

Does mean some difficulties for developers though as they have to target three platforms with different power and abilities.
 
Mr_Sukebe said:
Have just started warming up "she who must be obeyed" to the idea of buying one at the new cost.
Just gotta wait for the the UK price drop.
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My wife loved the open front design and the MR puzzles like Cubism and Puzzling places.

We often play Walkabout Minigolf together too, me on the Pro, her on the Quest 2.
 
We've seen this far too often recently, new headsets hyped and in practice disappointing.

Ironically the Quest Pro was dismissed at launch as a souped up Quest 2 only for businesses and not that great resolution, then users found it was way better than most of the reviews suggested, and it's gradually building a reputation as being probably the best all-round headset out there.
 
silvagti said:
I’d have actually been tempted by the Quest pro with the recent price cuts were it not for the fact that the Quest 3 is all but confirmed for release later this year.
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Yep, the biggest issue is that we don't know exactly how they will compare.

However I doubt Meta will release a £500 headset that outclasses their Pro £1000 headset.

There will be compromises, we don't know what yet.
 
They do seem to be pitching Quest 3 as a slightly more expensive enthusiast headset. Makes me wonder if they'll ship with Pro controllers.

If it doesn't ship with those then it could be approaching or exceeding the Quest Pro price point if you add in a better headstrap, pro controllers and charging dock as optional extras.
 
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Unseul said:
But AAA games need AAA sales, and that means q2 numbers. Or of course the cheap headset is actually on the same cheap as the q3. If they manage that, I would imagine people will be more willing to sell on their q2s. Though who'd buy a 2nd hand q2 when the QCheap is available?
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Totally agree. One of the reasons the Quest Pro has so little software catering for it specifically is because it's so new and has few sales compared to Quest 2.

Look at what happened when the Quest 2 launched. Very few games had specific Quest 2 support and it took a long while for developers to start catering to the higher Quest 2 specs and even longer to release Quest 2 only games.

The games will have to be backward compatible with Quest 2 for some time to come. That's especially true now Quest 2 is launching in China
 
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