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Title: Meta will raise Quest 2 price to $400 on August 1st Post by: HCK on July 27, 2022, 04:05:02 pm Meta will raise Quest 2 price to $400 on August 1st
<p>Prices normally drop as devices get older, but that's not the case for the Meta Quest 2 (https://www.engadget.com/oculus-quest-2-review-vr-facebook-headset-173026291.html). UploadVRreports (https://uploadvr.com/quest-2-meta-price/) Meta will raise (https://www.oculus.com/blog/meta-quest-2-pricing-changes/) the price of the Quest 2 from $299 to $400 for the base 128GB version on August 1st, and from $399 to $500 for the 256GB model. You can still find the VR headset for <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:amazon;pdid:Meta Quest 2;" href="https://amzn.to/3OxzkTv">$299 on Amazon[/url] as we write this, but you may want to act quickly when supplies could easily run out.</p><p>Refurbished Quest 2 prices are jumping to a respective $349 and $429 for 128GB and 256GB headsets. You can also expect higher accessory prices. Meta will partly offset the increases by offering free copies of Beat Saber (https://www.engadget.com/2019-11-26-oculus-vr-beat-saber.html) to new buyers between August 1st and December 31st, but that's not much consolation if the previous price was the chief draw.</p><span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>The company pinned the increase on higher manufacturing and shipping costs. The Quest 2 price hike will let Meta "grow [its] investment" in research and development for VR products, according to a blog post. Meta pointed to the high-end Project Cambria (https://www.engadget.com/mark-zuckerberg-meta-vr-ar-mixed-reality-headset-project-cambria-demo-154831700.html) headset as an example, and emphasized that "new generations" of Quest were in the pipeline.</p><p>The Quest 2 is still one of the more affordable entry points for VR (you don't require a PC, after all). That doesn't make the higher minimum outlay any easier, however, and it potentially opens the door to Pico and other companies that might try to compete on price.</p> Source: Meta will raise Quest 2 price to $400 on August 1st (https://www.engadget.com/meta-quest-2-price-increase-180745817.html?src=rss) |