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Re:Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset, which will cost $4... by jjfoooo4 on Thursday June 01, 2023 @03:19PM (#36156024)
It's more impressive than many people think, but in context:

- The PS5 sales have been notoriously hampered by supply constraints

- The XBox numbers are considered to be a major disappointment [1]

- The Quest continues to be crushed by the Nintendo Switch, which counted selling 18m unites in a year to be a disappointing result of supply constraints [2]

[1] https://kotaku.com/xbox-series-x-s-sales-microsoft-next-gen-...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/09/nintendo-full-year-earnings-...

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Re:Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset, which will cost $4... by wkat4242 on Thursday June 01, 2023 @04:59PM (#36157236)
Everyone who wants a PS5 can buy one now though. The constraints are long over.
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Re:Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset, which will cost $4... by katbyte on Thursday June 01, 2023 @05:32PM (#36157646)
That’s a pretty recent development as of this year
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Re:Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset, which will cost $4... by dymk on Thursday June 01, 2023 @09:27PM (#36159733)
The year is halfway over, not exactly recent
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Re:Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset, which will cost $4... by katbyte on Saturday June 03, 2023 @11:22PM (#36182786)
~4 months out of the total 31 its been out? that sounds recent to me
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Re:Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset, which will cost $4... by ezconnect on Thursday June 01, 2023 @05:08PM (#36157359)
Used PS5s are also common now.
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Re:Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset, which will cost $4... by oarsinsync on Thursday June 01, 2023 @05:15PM (#36157435)
Meanwhile the PS4 shipped over 110m units.
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Re:Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset, which will cost $4... by ChuckNorris89 on Thursday June 01, 2023 @07:18PM (#36158775)
PS2 laughs at 158 million
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Re:Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset, which will cost $4... by MBCook on Thursday June 01, 2023 @10:46PM (#36160249)
Switch is at 125 and isn’t slowing.
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Re:Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset, which will cost $4... by oarsinsync on Saturday June 03, 2023 @07:11PM (#36181396)
And the Quest is still at 20m.
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Re:Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset, which will cost $4... by cultofmetatron on Thursday June 01, 2023 @07:58PM (#36159112)
quest just doesn't have a game library offering that compares to the switch. plus the switch is way less of an investment to get into a gaming session. (and I say this as a quest owner) to play my vr headset, I have to clear the room, calibrate my play space and the games just arent there. there's nothing in it that matches super mario galaxy or legend of zelda. I usually jsut play a few rounds of beat saber and call it a day
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Re:Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset, which will cost $4... by sdenike on Thursday June 01, 2023 @10:21PM (#36160079)
This sounds exactly like my experience. And speaking as a person who owned the Quest and now Quest 2, both of which barely ever saw/seen the day of light as most times I never had them charged up when I decided to clear a place to play.
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Re:Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset, which will cost $4... by sitkack on Thursday June 01, 2023 @11:59PM (#36160852)
My Q2 (mostly the kids) doesn't appear to sleep when turned off. If I leave it unplugged for a couple days, I'll get a message on my phone that the battery is getting low. That is crazy to me. It should be able to be "off" indefinitely unless it is a Facebook APT.
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Re:Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset, which will cost $4... by lyu07282 on Friday June 02, 2023 @12:53AM (#36161187)
That is a well known issue, same with it not remembering the play area so you have to recalibrate every single time. The Quest software is just an absolute buggy mess
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