Alright, here goes nothing. So… Meta, right? Just did their thing with this Quest 3S Xbox Edition headset, and guess what? It’s like, poof, gone. But only if you’re trying to snag one directly from Meta’s own stash. Feels like the universe playing a joke. You can still find it elsewhere—some third-party magic or whatever—just not from the source. Odd, huh?
Meta was all “super limited,” and here we are, surprised it’s vanished so fast. Like, are people really into this, or did Meta have, like, two in stock? And the official Xbox site redirects you to, surprise, none available. What’s happening? Mind boggling.
Let’s talk retailers for a sec. Best Buy in the US, also Argos and EE in the UK—still have some floating around. But if you check Xbox’s website, it’s like, hey, sorry, go look elsewhere. Maybe they underestimated us, or just the stock or… I don’t know, the universe again?
Quick side note: scalpers doing their thing on eBay. Charging mad amounts, as expected. Classic.
Okay, tech specs! The Quest 3S Xbox Edition… not much different from the regular Quest 3S. Again, standard insides, like it’s the same brain, but with a shiny Xbox controller, a splash of color, plus three months of Game Pass Ultimate—woohoo, cloud gaming! But like, not every Xbox game’s on there. So, don’t get your VR hopes up if you want to dive into your fave Xbox worlds, it’s still just flatscreen gaming in a VR set. Scribbled some numbers earlier—uhh, I mean, it’s cheaper than buying stuff separately. By how much? Oh, $75 off. Not bad, I guess?
Though, remember back in 2016, Microsoft teased us—Xboxes and “high fidelity VR.” Nada. This headset’s as close as Microsoft’s gotten to actual VR. Anyone dreaming of VR for their Xbox games, yeah, nope. But maybe someday they’ll throw in some 3D magic just to give a bit more life to our flat screens inside a headset.
Final update—oh, correction alert. Said the components were $415? Oops, try $475. Just your average day with numbers, haha.
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