A Wall Avenue Journal report maintains Meta’s Quest platform had 6.37 million month-to-month lively customers as of October 2022.
The report doesn’t embrace a breakdown of which headset is seeing probably the most engagement, nonetheless it’s seemingly a majority of these customers come from Quest 2. The unique Quest, which was launched in 2019, is presently on its manner out. The corporate’s enthusiast-grade headset Quest Professional prices $1,000, a $500 drop from its unique $1,500 launch value.
Meta hasn’t formally detailed simply what number of Quest headsets it’s offered for the reason that firm launched the standalone in 2019, or its Quest 2 follow-up a 12 months later for that matter, nonetheless a report by The Verge final month alleged the corporate has offered practically 20 million Quest headsets. Though not confirmed, this determine seemingly consists of all Quest headsets.
It’s nowhere close to what conventional recreation consoles have achieved, nonetheless for VR it’s pretty spectacular. For scale, Sony has shipped over 32 million PlayStation 5 items and over 117 million PS4 items to this point; the PlayStation platform as a complete garnered 112 million month-to-month lively customers in Q3 2022.
For the still-nascent trade, Meta is much and forward the chief of the house. Of its 500+ titles on the Meta Quest Retailer, 40 have grossed over $10 million in income. In accordance with the Wall Avenue Journal, the Quest platform has now seen greater than 200 apps make over $1 million as of February 2023, a rise of 44% from the earlier 12 months.
This comes alongside the information that Meta’s best-performing app, the block-slashing rhythm recreation Beat Saber, has generated over 1 / 4 billion {dollars} in gross sales since launch in 2018.