I'm excited to buy a Meta Quest 3 and I've been seriously considering pre-ordering one but so far the price has stopped me (a 128gb model with an elite strap + battery is over $1000 AUD!).
With Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales a little under 2 months away I'm planning to wait until then.
Will I find a good deal, save some money and decide the wait was worth it?
Or will Quest 3s sell out and/or have lackluster sales making me regret my decision?
How I feel will also depend on reviews of the Quest 3. If everyone is raving about it for 2 months and I feel like I'm missing out then I'm going to need a pretty good deal to make me think the wait was worth it.
On the flip side if reviews are mediocre I'll probably be happy with my decision to wait, even if I only save a little bit of money.
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A "good deal" to me probably means at least 15 or 20% off.
I'm fine to buy a 3rd party elite strap/battery so I'll likely save some money that way.
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I personally have almost never regretted waiting longer to buy something – it gives me more time to understand the product, decide whether I want it, and whether the price is worth it. Even if I decide to buy it in the end, it's more satisfying to know it's something I've been saving up for or waiting for for weeks or months.
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I feel very doubtful that a newly-launched game console / VR headset is going to get an instant price drop, unless its sales are disastrous. Usually, before trying an actual price drop, consoles will first do "bundles" where you get a couple of prominent games included with the purchase price.
But even 20% off of the $500 USD price would only save you $100. Is even $100 worth putting off getting a Quest 3 for the 45 days between the launch date and the date of black friday? Probably a $100 discount would indeed be worth the wait, sure. (It is for me. It would only be not worth it if you spend like multiple whole afternoons sitting around thinking "man, it would be sweet if I could be playing Quest 3 games right now", in which case you'd be getting "paid" a pretty low wage to sit around and wait.) But my point is that it's kinda close -- a $50 discount feels more breakeven (get paid a mere $1 / day to not yet own a Quest 3!)
So, I am thinking disappointment is likely, mostly because there won't actually be a discount, rather at best just bundle (maybe you'll get Ghostbusters or Assassins Creed or Stranger Things thrown in alongside Asgard's Wrath 2), and maybe not even that.
I don't think the Quest 3 will be sold-out, at least not the 128GB version: https://t.co/Zuh46d206F
Unrelated: I empathize with your situation, not because I am dying to buy the Quest 3 (although I have a Quest 2 and love it), but because I am hoping to build a new gaming PC and wondering whether to buy parts in the Oct 9 sale at Newegg, or wait for the bigger black friday sales. So it is the same math of "how much am I getting paid per day to sit around with my existing, extremely mediocre gaming PC".
@JacksonWagner Really appreciate the thoughtful comment and I like the idea of framing the time spent waiting for a discount as a wage. Will be interesting to see how things play out.