{"id":71377,"date":"2026-04-16T17:58:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/meta-quest-3-is-about-to-get-a-big-price-hike-grab-a-vr-headset-before-its-too-late-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:59:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:59:26","slug":"meta-quest-3-is-about-to-get-a-big-price-hike-grab-a-vr-headset-before-its-too-late-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/meta-quest-3-is-about-to-get-a-big-price-hike-grab-a-vr-headset-before-its-too-late-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Quest 3 is about to get a big price hike \u2013 grab a VR headset before it&#8217;s too late"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:default1=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\" id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"elk-7c2c1f4b-eec5-47e4-a3dc-a00812575571\">The ongoing shortage of RAM continues to be a big issue for manufacturers, and it&#8217;s now affecting two of our favorite VR headsets. Starting this Sunday, April 19th, the prices of both the Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S will increase by $100 and $50 respectively, so if you want <a rel=\"sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=169923&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2Fs%3Fk%3Dmeta%2Bquest%2B3%26tag%3Dftr-androidcentral-us-20%26ascsubtag%3Dac-us-1484814764885046080-20\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=meta+quest+3\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"hawklinks\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" data-placeholder-url=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=169923&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2Fs%3Fk%3Dmeta%2Bquest%2B3%26tag%3Dftr-androidcentral-us-20%26ascsubtag%3Dhawk-custom-tracking-20\" data-merchant-name=\"Amazon US\" data-merchant-id=\"1471\" data-merchant-network=\"Amazonus\" data-merchant-url=\"amazon.com\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\"><strong>Take a headset before hiking<\/strong><\/a>Now is your last chance to do so.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-collectionwidget-4f85f273abfd3a6f4c69975637510794\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-8893bd16-45e9-4115-998b-f8cd35d6cbe1\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-bad8d9ac-aa6a-40a4-a541-da4c66ec2e5a\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-ca1342a3-c500-42e8-81c8-bd4c157a02de\">according to <a rel=\"sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-100048248-15736996?sid=ac-us-1341766452855270893&amp;url=https:\/\/www.meta.com\/blog\/update-meta-quest-pricing\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.meta.com\/blog\/update-meta-quest-pricing\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"hawklinks\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" data-placeholder-url=\"https:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-100048248-15736996?sid=hawk-custom-tracking&amp;url=https:\/\/www.meta.com\/blog\/update-meta-quest-pricing\/\" data-merchant-name=\"Meta\" data-merchant-id=\"543744\" data-merchant-network=\"CJ\" data-merchant-url=\"meta.com\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\"><strong>a blog post<\/strong><\/a>    From Meta, &#8220;the global increase in the price of critical components \u2013 particularly memory chips \u2013 is impacting nearly every category of consumer electronics, including VR&#8221;, meaning that the price of VR hardware is going to be affected in the following ways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"elk-7c86afbb-afeb-44fa-9c8a-8a29c23bdcfa\">\n<li><strong>Meta Quest 3 512GB:<\/strong> <del>was $499<\/del> Now $599 (starting April 19th)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meta Quest 3S 128GB:<\/strong> <del>was $299<\/del> Now $349.99 (starting April 19th)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meta Quest 3S 256GB:<\/strong> <del>was $399<\/del> Now $449.99 (starting April 19th)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"elk-899a2e05-4dae-4387-9538-10b8accd62b1\">The price increase will also impact refurbished units sold through Meta&#8217;s stores. This is certainly unfortunate, but the good news is that you still have a few days to purchase your Meta Quest headset before you get hit with the price increase.<\/p>\n<p><em>Not sure which Meta Quest headset is right for you? check us out <\/em><em>Meta Quest 3 vs Quest 3S<\/em><em>    Guide, where we detail all the pros and cons of each model. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-0e10a6eb-06bd-44d3-be36-d23bc4d2c3fc\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-model-name=\"Meta Quest 3\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-widget-type=\"review\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-126e664b-e0d6-4d8e-a131-67b6fadff841\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-model-name=\"Meta Quest 3S\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-widget-type=\"review\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing shortage of RAM continues to be a big issue for manufacturers, and it&#8217;s now affecting two of our favorite VR headsets. Starting this Sunday, April 19th, the prices of both the Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S will increase by $100 and $50 respectively, so if you want Take a headset before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[872,12622,16735,1781,1055,2159,1708,4634],"class_list":{"0":"post-71377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-devotionals","8":"tag-big","9":"tag-grab","10":"tag-headset","11":"tag-hike","12":"tag-late","13":"tag-meta","14":"tag-price","15":"tag-quest"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71382,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71377\/revisions\/71382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}