Quest 3S Xbox Edition Quickly Sells Out from Meta, Still Available at Retailers

Man, it’s wild how fast stuff goes, right? So, Meta just dropped this Quest 3S Xbox Edition headset thing, and boom—gone! Like, not even a week has passed, and you can’t grab it from Meta anymore. Crazy. But if you dig around, you can still find it at other stores.

Meta was all, “This is super limited, guys,” and I guess they weren’t joking because it’s already out of stock on their site for the US and UK. Did people freak out and buy it all up, or was there hardly any stock? No clue, honestly.

But wait, there’s more—Best Buy in the US and Argos and EE in the UK still got some in the back. Even Xbox’s own site is like, “Yeah, check Meta—whoops, never mind.” Wild times, eh?

Oh, and speaking of Meta, there’s scalpers. Gotta love ’em. They’re already flipping these headsets on eBay for a crazy markup. I guess it’s what happens with “exclusive” stuff.

Now, about the headset itself. It’s the same as the normal Quest 3S—same guts and all—but it looks snazzier and comes with an Xbox controller and a few months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. So, if you’re into gaming, you get a bunch of titles to mess around with. But heads up, not every game’s gonna work.

What’s funny is, if you have a Quest 3S and an Xbox controller already, you can do the whole Xbox Cloud Gaming to your heart’s content. The bundle just gives you a bit of a deal—like, $75 off if you were planning to buy the components separately. Someone must’ve done the math on a late night snack run.

Remember when Microsoft shouted from the rooftops about VR with their Xbox One X back in 2016? Ah, nostalgia. That didn’t exactly happen. But here we are, closer to Xbox VR with this headset thing—except, surprise! It’s for playing games on a screen in VR, not full-blown VR gaming. Bummer, right? Maybe someday we’ll get to see our Xbox games pop out in 3D or something. Fingers crossed.

And hey, just a heads-up. There was an earlier mix-up on the bundle’s value in this piece—turns out, it was worth $475, not $415. Shows I need more sleep or more coffee. Or both.