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<\/a>Meanwhile, PlayStation 5 is seen at #13, Quest 3 (512GB) at #24, and Xbox Series X at #60 on the \u2018Best Sellers\u2019 list.<\/p>\nOn one hand, it shouldn\u2019t be entirely surprising to see Meta\u2019s cheapest headset Quest 3S (128GB) with its $250 holiday sale price beating out Switch 2\u2019s $400 MSRP. But on the other hand, those constantly bemoaning the \u201cdeath of VR\u201d would have you believe that Quest 3S sales volume wouldn\u2019t even be in the same ballpark as a Nintendo console.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, the latest generation of Quest headsets appear to be slightly down in sales volume on Amazon US compared to the prior year. It\u2019s possible we\u2019ll see a late spike, but in years past, Quest sales volume has just about peaked by December 23rd.<\/p>\n
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My Take<\/p>\n
Despite Quest\u2019s impressive and quite seasonal sales volume, there\u2019s no doubt that the headsets have struggled with retention. Meta has sold its headsets at exceptionally low price points over the years, which has helped move units out the door. But even though there is thought to be tens of millions of Quest headsets out in the wild, the number of\u00a0active\u00a0pales in comparison to the major game consoles. Without strong retention and the ability to make back profit on the software side, the subsidized headset strategy has contributed to the major loses that Meta\u2019s Reality Labs division has sustained since its inception.<\/p>\n
Meta made moves earlier this year to raise the bar on software and UX design for its wearable devices<\/a>, which will hopefully improve future retention. But those moves are also rumored to lead to a price hike on the company\u2019s headsets<\/a>, which is likely to tamp back the impressive sales volume that Quest has seen over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite being released more than a year ago, Meta\u2019s Quest 3-series headsets are outselling Nintendo\u2019s new Switch 2…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":467414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[158,67,132,68,729,730],"class_list":{"0":"post-467413","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\/115770951039889427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467413","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=467413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}