What you’ll want to know
- The Meta Quest 3 is now utilized by 5.2% of SteamVR customers in November 2023, rising 5.05% through the month.
- The Quest 3 hasn’t been out for 2 months, but it is already within the high 5.
- Meta Quest 2 gross sales spiked in November as a consequence of Black Friday gross sales however utilization on Steam solely elevated 0.75%.
Whereas it is too early to name it a win for Meta for the yr, early gross sales numbers on the Meta Quest 3 appear extremely constructive. Regardless of being twice the worth of the Meta Quest 2 — a deal that continues till the tip of the yr — the Quest 3 has already secured a spot within the high 5 most used VR headsets on SteamVR in November 2023.
Steam surveys random customers each month to evaluate the {hardware} distribution throughout the platform. These numbers do not signify all SteamVR customers, although. Moderately, they solely signify the variety of of us surveyed.
Steam has been utilizing this technique for years, and the expansion charge traces up with that of the Meta Quest 2, regardless of the worth distinction between it and the Meta Quest 3. In November 2020 — roughly the identical timeframe after the launch of the Quest 2 — Steam {hardware} surveys confirmed progress of the Oculus Quest at 5.53%.
On the time, Steam did not separate the Oculus Quest from the Oculus Quest 2 and, as a substitute, mixed the numbers. If we mix the Quest 2 and Quest 3’s progress on Steam in November 2023, it provides as much as 5.8%, that means Meta’s adoption numbers look even higher this time round. Nonetheless, the Quest 2 represents practically half of VR headsets used on Steam, a minimum of in line with these surveyed.
Whereas it is curious to see the Quest 2 develop on the similar time the Quest 3’s market share grew, it is totally possible that unimaginable vacation gross sales introduced a number of new Quest 2 customers to the platform. In different phrases, Quest 2 customers are possible upgrading to the Quest 3, however much more Quest 2 customers are changing these of us.
Throughout Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the Meta Quest 2 outsold the Nintendo Change on Amazon. An enormous a part of that’s possible as a result of unimaginable worth, which was $249 — $50 off the traditional worth — plus websites like Amazon had been handing out $50 present playing cards with every buy.
It is totally possible that we’ll proceed to see each the Quest 2 and Quest 3’s SteamVR utilization numbers rise in December, each due to Christmas and the truth that Steam Hyperlink is now an official Meta Quest app.
Positive, it is the “previous” headset however it’s exhausting to argue with shopping for one at half the worth of the Quest 3. Plus, Meta has dedicated to a minimum of one other three years of software program updates for the system, that means it’s going to nonetheless be a fantastic purchase for a very long time to return.
