The Meta Quest 2 gets a permanent price cut to $199

The Meta Quest 2 has been connected waste for astir a month, and today, Meta’s making that value imperishable — $199 is nan caller sticker price for nan virtual reality headset, the institution announced today. That’s half what it primitively costs successful 2020, and Meta is permanently cutting nan value of Quest 2 accessories for illustration nan Elite Strap pinch Battery (which I highly recommend) successful half arsenic well.

The Quest 2 is presently being supplanted by the $500 Quest 3, of course, but it’s still an unthinkable introduction constituent to VR, 1 that plays each Quest crippled isolated from for a azygous Quest 3-exclusive title announced past month. It doesn’t person colour passthrough imagination aliases bully mixed reality gaming, and I decidedly for illustration nan Quest 3 for comfortableness and immersion, but I don’t cognize if I for illustration it by $300.

I do person concerns astir really agelong Meta will support nan Quest 2 aft seeing really overmuch nan institution dissed nan original Quest by retroactively shutting down fan-favorite games and pulling support. Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth told maine we should expect first-party games to support Quest 2 for “quite a while” last June but didn’t reply my mobility astir whether Meta mightiness retroactively unopen down games connected Quest 2.

Still, location are millions much reasons to support Quest 2: it was nan astir celebrated headset nan company’s ever produced and nan lion’s stock of nan 20 cardinal headsets Meta sold arsenic of February 2023. It was successful specified precocious request during nan pandemic that Meta really raised the price connected a then-two-year-old gadget successful 2022.

For now, nan Quest 2 tin moreover get immoderate updates up of nan Quest 3, like nan lying down mode that arrived successful March and took different period to deed Meta’s newer headset.

The Quest 2 still feels for illustration a bully woody today.