Meta Quest 2 Huge Price increase

Redhulk50

Was on Amazon and just discovered that Greedy Zuckerberg has increased the price of both Meta Quests 128gb and 256gb by £100 the 128 GB is now £399.99 and 256 GB £499.99 and the good news is you get a free game to download Beat Saber 🙄 woopee !

This is taking the Piss , times are tough now with the high cost of living , high petrol , high energy bills , high food prices , Zuckerberg does this ! He is forgetting that the Quest 2 is like two year old now paying £500 is too much to pay for old tech , this is definitely gonna put a lot of people off buying VR and what price is the Meta Quest 3 Pro whatever it's called gonna cost £700 ?

doublevr

Redhulk50 I guesstimate the real price of Quests should be like $3,000 to break even. VR is super cash demanding for any development.

petermc

doublevr he’s still making billions of dollars in profit as a company though even if he’s losing a few dollars on Quest 2 headsets. Seems short-sighted to bump up the price of an old product by such a huge amount when he’s trying to make VR a huge deal and accessible to all. Things usually go down in price over time, not up.

Redhulk50

doublevr $3000 why such a ridiculous high price for a piece of tech that still hasn't really taken off ? Remember people are buying the Quest for gaming not Porn and the majority of gamers prefer playing on PC , PS5 and Xbox .

BeltManFen

doublevr it’s literally a phone pre installed in the headset. A phone I might add originally marketed as a stand alone device yet it has the battery life of a Nintendo DS. Has almost zero first party support for games, you can’t even attempt to link your computer to the quest if it doesn’t like your specs. You can’t use any external streaming apps even in browser. You can’t upgrade storage with a micro sd. If it wasn’t for porn there would be no reason to own it. All that without mentioning it gave thousands of people face rashes because the sweat rag cushioning. They still haven’t released the improved battery headbands after their recall either.

Redhulk50

petermc Yes it's bizarre that he would bump up the price , the PSVR 2 is just around the corner and that will be cheaper than the Quest 2.

doublevr

petermc quite opposite - they are losing a shitload of money on it https://cnbc.com/2022/07/27/meta-reality-labs-lost-2point8-billion-in-q2-2022.html

ssen2004

Redhulk50 I did buy lot of Quest games but last 2 years its been only porn watching no games 🙂 I would definitely pay double the price if any handset claims it has double the video clarity that of Quest 2.

mookiemeatball

Redhulk50 not even close. You need a PS5 for it....

stefanno

The price increase surprises me, it's a pr disaster, i guess they were selling it at a significant loss.

abcrebel

It must be selling like hot cakes because I just checked the 128 GB and it's currently unavailable.

Redhulk50

abcrebel
From what I have read yesterday was the last day when you can buy the Quest 2 at the original price , I also checked some stores and its unavailable I think this has something to do with the price increase, they will no doubt wait a few days and sell it at the new higher price .

Mutiny

Redhulk50 My gut says stores aren't making money on the headsets. They're making bank on cases and extended warranties, though.

mebejoe

I've purchased at least six headsets and only used them for porn. I know a lot of gamers and even some game developers and they seem disinterested in VR games.

But you give me an idea that somebody should develop one that is geared towards watching porn and other VR videos. One that lets you calibrate for different positions and such and makes it easy to line up the body in the video with your own body, etc.

😃

petermc

doublevr I mean Meta/Facebook as a whole. I understand the VR wing is losing money but the company, as a whole, is still making huge profits overall so they can take the short-term (hopefully for them) hit on VR.

spacepirate

Mutiny nah the app store is where the moneys at

mookiemeatball

petermc actually, FB is losing billions trying to develop the "Metaverse".

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Likely this anticipates the reveal of a less-than-stellar Project Cambria. If I were an investor in the company I'd be worried.

I was a big fan of Facebook until the day they locked me out of my account and requested a scan of my passport to check my ID. I was active from 2004 through 2020. Now I'll never support them or help them in any way.

Good product, bad company. Let's hope this opens a space for smaller companies with better ideas.

catflap

the price of the hardwear is going up, but it is still less than a lifetime subscription to many studios!

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catflap the price of the hardware is going up, but it is still less than a lifetime subscription to many studios!

A lifetime subscription will last the rest of your life. The best you can hope for most hardware is 3-5 years.

Mutiny

spacepirate For sure. I just meant for the retailers themselves. I worked at a big box tech store years ago and for the devices themselves there was basically no retail markup. Pretty much all the money for laptops and computers and headsets goes back to the manufacturer. The retailers make all their money on accessories and warranty upgrades. (Our employee discount was something like wholesale + 5%, so we got no discount on laptops, but a $50 HDMI cable only cost us like $6.)

mebejoe

Maybe there will be an alternative soon

https://www.techradar.com/news/rumors-of-a-new-oculus-quest-2-competitor-couldnt-come-at-a-worse-time-for-meta

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mebejoe Maybe there will be an alternative soon

I'm not sure if I'm ready to trust the creators of TikTok with my web footprint. I don't think they could be any worse than Meta / Facebook, but they certainly aren't better. Samsung is a natural contender, since they created iPhone and iPad screens for many years and probably have the best technologies for production and commercialization. They stopped support for GearVR and reduced the resolution of their flagship phones (preferring refresh rate to high resolution). They might be a contender now that Facebook / Meta has decided against the strategy of losing money to corner the market.

spanker

got lucky...just one for kid about 3 weeks ago. i'm still using Q1...waiting on the new one coming out....hoping it will be easier to read internet websites with, as well as better porn experience

catflap

spanker same - Q1 user

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Reading will be the game changer. Many folks are currently paying for costly tech like Varjo for that very purpose. Training in VR requires two things: 1) long term usability without fatigue, hence the ridiculous price for some straps, and 2) reading potential (which entails high resolution, multi-focus, and elimination of god rays, etc).

My plan was to wait too, but the prices aren't going to improve any time soon. Refurbished might be an option.

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