What you should know
- The Meta Quest 3 is now utilized by 5.2% of SteamVR customers in November 2023, rising 5.05% in the course of the month.
- The Quest 3 hasn’t been out for 2 months, but it is already within the prime 5.
- Meta Quest 2 gross sales spiked in November as a result 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 12 months, early gross sales numbers on the Meta Quest 3 appear extremely constructive. Regardless of being twice the value of the Meta Quest 2 — a deal that continues till the top of the 12 months — the Quest 3 has already secured a spot within the prime 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. Relatively, they solely signify the variety of of us surveyed.
Steam has been utilizing this system for years, and the expansion charge strains up with that of the Meta Quest 2, regardless of the value 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 development 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 development 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 almost half of VR headsets used on Steam, no less than based on 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 solely possible that unimaginable vacation gross sales introduced a lot 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 value, which was $249 — $50 off the conventional value — plus websites like Amazon had been handing out $50 reward playing cards with every buy.
It is solely possible that we’ll proceed to see each the Quest 2 and Quest 3’s SteamVR utilization numbers rise in December, each because of Christmas and the truth that Steam Hyperlink is now an official Meta Quest app.
Positive, it is the “outdated” headset nevertheless it’s laborious to argue with shopping for one at half the value of the Quest 3. Plus, Meta has dedicated to no less than one other three years of software program updates for the system, that means it will nonetheless be an awesome purchase for a very long time to return.
