At least one million people have bought a Quest 3, but the number is probably higher.
Developer and VR enthusiast Daven Bigelow has been tracking how many people have tried Meta’s First Encounters mixed reality tutorial, which can only be played on Quest 3.
Every person with a Meta account that has played through the app at least once will receive an achievement. Today, this achievement has surpassed 1 million participants. This strongly suggests that at least one million Quest 3 headsets have been sold.
Since not all Quest 3 buyers have played First Encounters, the number of units sold could be higher. For example, if only one in two people played First Encounters, the number of units sold would be two million.
Quest 3S will beat Quest 3
Meta Quest 3 was released on October 10, 2023, and is available in the US starting at $500. This makes the next-generation standalone headset a lot pricier than the Quest 2, which was launched in 2020 for $300.
In March 2023, six months before the launch of Quest 3, an internal presentation was leaked showing that previous Quest headsets, namely Quest 1, 2, and Pro, have sold over 20 million units to date, with Quest 2 accounting for the lion’s share of units sold.
Meta’s next best-selling headset will not be the Quest 3, but the heavily rumored Quest 3S. According to credible reports, the cheaper headset could soon follow in the footsteps of the Quest 2, allegedly with the Quest 3’s significantly more powerful chipset, color passthrough, the same controllers, and feature parity in the software.
Meanwhile, stocks of the Quest 2 are running low, so the launch of the Quest 3S could be coming soon.
Source: Mixed News
