Keep that number in your head this month, because most of the deal posts going around leave it out. The best Quest 3S price I can find today is a Best Buy doorbuster: $297.49 for the 128GB model, with a $50 Best Buy gift card. 9to5Google called it the Quest 3S doorbuster that is “the best I’ve ever seen.” It is a good deal. It is also about $47 more than the same headset cost at the same store last Black Friday.
Last November, for comparison
This is what VR cost at Black Friday 2025, from UploadVR’s roundup on November 28 last year:
- Quest 3S 128GB: $250 at Best Buy, with a $50 gift card, a month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and a free game. Costco went lower, $200 for members and $215 for everyone else, with a year of Horizon+.
- Quest 3S 256GB: $330 at Best Buy.
- Quest 3: no price cut, but Best Buy added a $75 gift card and a month of Game Pass to its $500 price.
- PS VR2: $300 at every official retailer through December 19, bundles included.
And this is today, November 14, from the stores’ own pages:
- Quest 3S 128GB: $297.49 at Best Buy with the $50 card. The page says the doorbuster ends tomorrow, and when I looked on Saturday it already said Sold Out next to a Notify Me button. Amazon only shows its price once the headset is in your cart (Amazon, affiliate link); 9to5Google saw $297 there with no gift card. Meta’s own store is at the full $349.99.
- Quest 3 512GB: $599.99 at Meta, at Best Buy and at Amazon (Amazon, affiliate link). Not a dollar off anywhere I checked.
- PS VR2: Sony does not sell it in the US anymore. Best Buy’s results are Marketplace sellers, $818.21 for a bundle and other listings from $736.39.
Put the two lists side by side and the shape is obvious, because the cheapest Quest you can buy this Black Friday, on the one doorbuster that beats every other price I could find and only while Best Buy still has boxes, costs about what the same headset cost on an ordinary Tuesday a year ago, back before anyone at Meta had to write a blog post about memory chips. That is the market now. Not a scandal. Just the market.
Why the floor moved
On April 16, Meta posted a short note called “An Update on Meta Quest Pricing.” From April 19 the Quest 3S went to $349.99 and $449.99, the Quest 3 to $599.99, and refurbished units went up with them. Meta’s explanation was that “the cost of building high-performance VR hardware has risen significantly,” and it named memory chips as the reason.
I believe Meta about the memory. Sam Whitfield laid out the DRAM numbers behind it for this site two weeks later, and a standalone headset carries a phone’s worth of memory and storage, so when AI data centers soak up the world’s DRAM, Quest buyers pay for it. What I do not love is that every deal post this month will measure its discount against $349.99, a price that has existed for seven months, and call a $297 headset the best price ever. It is the best price since April. Before April, give or take $2.50, it was just the price.
Meta has been here before. In July 2022 it raised the Quest 2 by $100, to $399.99, citing production costs, and softened it by giving away Beat Saber with every new headset through the end of the year. This year’s version of that is GOLF+. Every qualifying Quest 3 and 3S bought through January 4 gets it, along with a premium course and 1,800 in-game credits. GOLF+ is $29.99 on its own.
When the price went up in April, I asked Meta in this column to bundle a game with the new price. A golf game it is. I have put hundreds of hours into Walkabout Mini Golf, so I am not exactly the person who gets to complain about the sport they picked.
