{"id":447476,"date":"2025-12-14T23:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/447476\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T23:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:45:19","slug":"no-joke-the-meta-quest-3s-is-cheaper-than-the-original-nintendo-switch-thanks-to-a-doorbuster-christmas-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/447476\/","title":{"rendered":"No joke! The Meta Quest 3S is cheaper than the original Nintendo Switch thanks to a doorbuster Christmas sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"75d936ad-a2fd-4bfc-8578-38decb0d9c03\">The Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales have come and gone, but if you missed the Meta Quest 3S deals a few weeks back, you&#8217;re in luck. For a limited time, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/goto.walmart.com\/c\/1943169\/568844\/9383?subId1=ac-us-4148362542178819877&amp;sharedId=ac-us&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FMeta-Quest-3S-128GB-Get-Batman-Arkham-Shadow-and-a-3-Month-Trial-of-Meta-Quest-Included-All-In-One-Headset%2F5871736556\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.walmart.com\/ip\/Meta-Quest-3S-128GB-Get-Batman-Arkham-Shadow-and-a-3-Month-Trial-of-Meta-Quest-Included-All-In-One-Headset\/5871736556\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" data-hl-processed=\"hawklinks\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" data-placeholder-url=\"https:\/\/goto.walmart.com\/c\/1943169\/568844\/9383?subId1=hawk-custom-tracking&amp;sharedId=hawk-prefix&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FMeta-Quest-3S-128GB-Get-Batman-Arkham-Shadow-and-a-3-Month-Trial-of-Meta-Quest-Included-All-In-One-Headset%2F5871736556\" data-merchant-name=\"Walmart\" data-merchant-id=\"108180\" data-merchant-network=\"ImpactRadWalmart\" data-merchant-url=\"walmart.com\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\"><strong>Walmart is resurrecting a holiday offer that slashes a straight $50 off the 128GB version of the Quest 3S,<\/strong><\/a> knocking the price down to $249.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the straight discount on the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/gaming\/virtual-reality\/best-vr-headsets\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/gaming\/virtual-reality\/best-vr-headsets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VR headset<\/a>, you&#8217;ll also get a free copy of Batman: Arkham Shadow and three months of Meta Horizon Plus at no additional cost. As far as I can tell, this is the best Quest 3S deal on the web today, but I don&#8217;t expect it to last long!<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-a008f562-f241-430e-b285-0b8da9b0aa94\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"0ee6d595-001c-4009-aed0-d0fe9f44c3f4\">The Meta Quest 3S has been an exceedingly popular gift idea this holiday season, and it isn&#8217;t hard to see why. The headset was pretty much tailor-made for newcomers to VR gaming, boasting the same graphical processing power as the standard Quest 3 at a significantly lower cost.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, as described in <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/gaming\/virtual-reality\/meta-quest-3s-review\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/gaming\/virtual-reality\/meta-quest-3s-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our 4.5\/5-star review<\/a>, the Quest 3S is &#8220;quite literally a Quest 3 with the Quest 2&#8217;s lenses and display&#8221;. Starting at $299, the beginner-friendly VR headset also boasts upgraded hand tracking and low light tracking capabilities, next-gen controllers, and complete access to the same library of games as the more-expensive Meta Quest 3. Furthermore, the device is powered by the cutting-edge Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 processor and comes with 8GB of RAM straight out of the box.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, if you directly <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/gaming\/virtual-reality\/meta-quest-3s-vs-quest-3\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/gaming\/virtual-reality\/meta-quest-3s-vs-quest-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compare the Meta Quest 3S with the standard Quest 3<\/a>, you&#8217;ll notice that the more affordable model has a lower-res display and narrower field-of-view than its premium counterpart, but you&#8217;re also paying at least $200 less for it. In other words, if you&#8217;re trying to get into VR gaming for the first time, the Meta Quest 3S is the best way to do it for cheap, especially when you slap on a $50 no-strings discount from Walmart.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-bd726366-d8cd-4589-a811-430492fa2a0a\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s best Meta Quest 3S deals<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-dc67c66d-8481-4eaa-9bc9-6632876599e1\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/>Holiday deals 2025 &#8211; quick links<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales have come and gone, but if you missed the Meta Quest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":447477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[158,67,132,68,729,730],"class_list":{"0":"post-447476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-virtual-reality","13":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115720586737466134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}