Is Meta Quest 2 a Christmas hit again? - MIXED Reality News

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It’s the 3rd Christmas for Meta Quest 2, and determination are signs of bully income again this year.

As successful erstwhile years, the Meta Quest app erstwhile again climbed to the top of the US app charts implicit the Christmas period. The Meta Quest app is required to acceptable up the VR headset. The information that it was downloaded much than immoderate different iOS and Android app connected Christmas suggests galore caller Quest users.

Meta Quest app is fig 1! A large vacation play for VR! pic.twitter.com/C9jjIMb9hP

– Jordan Kutzer ? (@JordanKutzer) December 25, 2022

Sales occurrence is hard to estimate

US retail concatenation Gamestop, which specializes successful gaming products, listed Meta Quest 2 alongside apical sellers similar Nintendo Switch, PS5, and Xbox consoles.

About the lineup I expected pic.twitter.com/8YXyEzKrmq

– JustDaven (@JayHadHope) December 22, 2022

There were besides scattered images of Quest 2 shelves being cleared retired and reports of devices being sold retired oregon hard to grab.

Pre Christmas update arsenic promised.

QUEST 2’s SOLD OUT. LFG https://t.co/lp8dKJGAPF pic.twitter.com/Qn8uXMM75U

– ?????? (@Thrilluwu) December 22, 2022

Now, 1 should not overestimate these indications. It is not imaginable to quantify the occurrence of Meta Quest 2 and comparison it with different products.

As usual, Meta does not springiness immoderate income figures. Only the next quarterly report successful February should supply accusation astir however good the Christmas concern went for Meta compared to the 2 erstwhile years.

In the past 2 years, a fistful of VR studios reported a leap successful app purchases and income astatine Christmas. It volition beryllium absorbing to spot if this volition beryllium the lawsuit again.

Meta Quest 2 has go much expensive

A twelvemonth ago, determination were signs that Meta Quest 2 was selling amended successful its 2nd vacation season than successful the twelvemonth of its launch.

It is improbable that Meta 2022 volition interruption records again: the price of the VR headset was amazingly accrued by 100 US dollars successful August. The instrumentality present costs $399 alternatively of $299 successful the US. For Christmas, however, the instrumentality volition beryllium offered astatine a reduced terms of $349 and successful a bundle with Beat Saber and Resident Evil 4. Meta itself expects little income than successful the 2 erstwhile years.

In Germany, Meta Quest 2 has lone been sold since this December and has serious contention successful Pico 4, which it doesn’t person to fearfulness successful the US (yet).

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