The Meta Quest 3S VR Headset Is the Cheapest It's Ever Been (2025)

For Black Friday, Meta's fashionable VR headset, the Quest 3S, has dropped down by $50 to a discounted terms of $249. This is the exemplary with 128 GB of storage, whereas the 256 GB exemplary costs $329. While this terms isn't a new low, it's arsenic inexpensive arsenic this headset has ever been sold for.

The devil's successful the details with the antithetic bundles connected offer. All the antithetic retailers travel bundled with antithetic games, which makes it confusing. This 1 offered by Amazon, for example, is simply a Gorilla Tag bundle, which is presently the astir fashionable crippled connected the platform. It's besides a escaped crippled to download, but the bundle gets you in-game contented (1,000 shiny rocks, for those curious). You mightiness not privation in-game contented for a crippled you've ne'er played.

For my money, Walmart is the champion spot to bargain the Quest 3S close now. Its bundle comes with Batman: Arkham Shadow, a $50 game. Meta is besides selling this bundle for the aforesaid terms straight from its ain storefront. Like the different bundles, this 1 comes with 128 GB of storage, arsenic good arsenic a 3-month escaped proceedings of Meta Horizon+, which gives you entree to tons of premium apps and games designed for VR.

Meanwhile, Best Buy is offering a bundle with the crippled The Walking Dead: Sinners & Saints for the aforesaid terms of $249. That's a $20 game. But it besides comes with a $50 Best Buy e-gift card. That's a large woody too, though it depends connected if you program to bash much buying done the best Cyber Monday Best Buy deals.

The Meta Quest 3S is the best VR headset to buy, and it has been ever since its merchandise successful precocious 2024. It was the cheaper follow-up to the Meta Quest 3, but was truthful bully that it has outright replaced it. Our reappraisal called it “cheap, light, and casual to use." WIRED reviewer Boone Ashworth besides complimented its ergonomics, calling it “the astir comfy VR headset" he'd ever utilized acknowledgment to its value and quality to enactment chill portion connected your face. It adjacent comes with high-end features similar colour video pass-through for mixed-reality experiences. The artillery beingness seems to beryllium the biggest compromise, which lone lasts for a mates of hours (or little successful our crippled testing).

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