{"id":611310,"date":"2026-04-16T19:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611310\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:04:09","slug":"meta-quest-headset-prices-are-going-up-on-april-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611310\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Quest headset prices are going up on April 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

The RAM crisis<\/a> has prompted another company to jack up hardware prices. Meta says it will be increasing the price of Quest headsets on April 19.\u00a0The Meta Quest 3 will get a $100 hike to $599, while the Quest 3S will be $50 more expensive at $350 (for a version with 128GB of storage) and $450 (256GB).<\/p>\n

Meta is blaming the increases<\/a> on the rising costs of RAM, which has skyrocketed in price due to a shortage of chips as AI companies gobble up as much memory as they can for their data centers. Sony recently bumped up the prices<\/a> of PS5 consoles and the PlayStation Portal handheld for similar reasons. Microsoft made its Surface PCs more expensive<\/a> this week too.<\/p>\n

Meta Quest accessories are staying at the same prices, but refurbished Quest units are somehow getting more expensive as well.\u00a0Refurbished Quest 3S units will be also be $50 more at $320 (128GB) and $410 (256GB). Meta is increasing the price of a refurbished Quest 3 by $100 to $550. I\u2019m not exactly sure how the company can pin those changes on increased manufacturing costs. Meanwhile, Meta told The Verge<\/a> that it doesn\u2019t expect to increase the prices of its smart glasses anytime soon.<\/p>\n

Correction April 16, 2026, 11:28AM ET: This story initially stated that the price of a refurbished Quest 3 is increasing by $170. It\u2019s going up by $100. We regret the error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The RAM crisis has prompted another company to jack up hardware prices. Meta says it will be increasing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[64,63,1333,105,238,239,240],"class_list":{"0":"post-611310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-meta","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-virtual-reality","13":"tag-virtualreality","14":"tag-vr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}