Quest 3S is on sale today on Meta’s online store.<\/p>\n
The 128GB base model is available for $250, a $50 saving, while the 256GB storage model is down to $330, a larger $70 discount.<\/p>\n
Meta confirmed that both offerings include\u00a0Batman: Arkham Shadow<\/a>\u00a0and 3 months of the\u00a0Horizon+<\/a>\u00a0games subscription, the content normally bundled with Quest 3S.<\/p>\n Wondering whether you should opt for a Quest 3 or a Quest 3S?<\/p>\n Quest 3S<\/strong><\/b> is Meta’s budget headset option. It has all the same VR and mixed reality capabilities of Quest 3, and has the same chipset and RAM inside, but it uses older, lower-quality fresnel lenses that aren’t fully adjustable, so may not be suitable for everyone’s eyes.<\/p>\n Quest 3<\/strong><\/b>, on the other hand, uses Meta’s advanced pancake lenses. They’re clearer, sharper, wider, and fully horizontally adjustable, suitable for everyone’s eyes. These pancake lenses also enable Quest 3 to be thinner, which makes the headset feel less heavy.<\/p>\n Quest 3 also has 512GB storage, whereas Quest 3S is only available in 128GB or 256GB.<\/p>\n If you have the funds, you should always pick Quest 3. But if you don’t, Quest 3S can still run all the same content.<\/p>\n This marks the fourth time we’ve seen the headset so heavily discounted since it launched one year ago.<\/p>\n Technically, the deepest value offer we’ve seen yet for Quest 3S was\u00a0on Black Friday<\/a>, when Amazon and Target offered $75 gift cards with the headset, effectively pricing it at $225.<\/p>\n But $250 remains the lowest outright price, and while we always recommend grabbing the higher-end Quest 3 if you can afford it, due to its much clearer and sharper pancake lenses, $250 is an incredible price for a fully standalone headset with included tracked controllers, hand tracking, color mixed reality, and upper body tracking. After all, Apple<\/a> and Samsung<\/a> charge $250 for just the controllers for their headsets.<\/p>\n And as a reminder, Quest 3S can run all the same content as Quest 3.<\/p>\n