The Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S are both finally discounted for Black Friday. Best Buy has rewarded our patience. Pick up a Meta Quest 3 ($499.99) and you’ll get a free $75 Best Buy gift card or grab a Meta Quest 3S and you’ll not only save $50-off full-price (now $249.99), you’ll get a free $50 Best Buy gift card too – did I mention you also get a free The Walking Dead game?
In the UK the Meta Quest 3S is down to £229 at Currys, while the Meta Quest 3 proper is £444.99 at Argos (a whopping £20 off).
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While a gift card forces you to shop at Best Buy rather than being a proper discount if you had a few other items on your holiday shopping list these US deals are effectively a discount against those purchases, and while a Quest 3S price cut could materialize in the run up to Cyber Monday I’m not expecting we’ll see anything better than this Meta Quest 3 deal.
In the UK, things are unlikely to get better; however, the Quest 3S deal was recently bested by Amazon when it briefly dropped the Quest 3S to £219 thanks to a voucher. It sold out quickly but might return. So while £229 for the headset is a steal, there is an argument to wait and see if prices fall any lower in the UK too.
(Not in the US or UK? See today’s best deals in your region below)
Today’s best Meta Quest 3S Black Friday deals
Free $75 gift card
The Meta Quest 3 is an excellent VR headset with access to great exclusives like Batman:Arkham Shadow, Marvel’s Deadpool, and Asgard’s Wrath 2. While this isn’t technically a discount it’s a very good deal to effectively get $75-off the Quest 3 – provided there’s something else at Best Buy you had your eye on.View Deal
Free $50 gift card
Most retailers will give you $50-off the Meta Quest 3S, some will give you a free game with your purchase, but only Best Buy will give you a $50 Best Buy gift card as well. This is the best deal we’ve seen the whole Black Friday period so far.View Deal
This Meta Quest 3 deal isn’t the biggest, but it is the best deal I’ve spotted from a reputable retailer this Black Friday. I love my Meta Quest 3 and think it’s well worth the higher price, though a cheaper Quest 3S is hard to ignore…View Deal
While Amazon had a better Meta Quest 3S deal for a limited time, this Currys deal is only £10 pricier, which isn’t a lot extra to pay (especially as that Amazon deal may not rematerialize anytime soon). You can find the same discount at John Lewis and Argos if you’d prefer to shop at either of those retailers.View Deal
They’re here folks, the Meta Quest 3 deals we’ve been craving (well, I know I’ve been craving them). Before now the best Meta Quest 3 deals in the US were nonexistent, and Meta Quest 3S discounts were just disappointing.
This duo of headsets are the best, and second-best VR headsets out there for most folks.
Why?
Well, hardware-wise, they are both solid devices with very similar specs. Their RAM and Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chipsets are powerful enough to play the full suite of HorizonOS software we have at our disposal – including exclusives like Batman: Arkham Shadow and Marvel’s Deadpool VR – and they’re both only a little over 500g which makes them fairly comfortable over exteded play sessions (I’ve use them for hours on end just fine).
But their real winning factor is the HorizonOS platform. The Quest ecosystem is, without a doubt, the best standalone VR platform in terms of software breadth, as anything you want to do in VR is very likely possible on Quest. The same can’t be said for its rivals.
The difference between the headsets (other than price) is their displays. The Quest 3 is outfitted with pancake lenses, which not only slim down the machine but also wipe out the blurriness at the fringes that can appear in the Quest 3S’s fresnel lenses.
That said, considering the Quest 3S is currently around half the price of the Quest 3 in both the US and UK, this downgrade can be easy to ignore, and right now, while I usually would give the Quest 3 the win, I can see the argument that the Quest 3S is in fact the world’s best VR headset.
Shop more of today’s best Black Friday sales (US)
- Amazon: 45% off TVs, AirPods, air fryers & vacuums
- Apple: iPads, AirPods & MacBooks from $119
- Best Buy: $1,000 off TVs, laptops & headphones
- Dell: laptop deals from $249.99
- Home Depot: 40% off appliances, furniture, grills & tools
- Lenovo: 45% off laptops & tablets
- Lowe’s: up to 30% off appliances, holiday decor & tools
- Samsung: up to $2,000 off appliances, TVs & phones
- Target: 40% off Christmas decor, clothing & furniture
- T-Mobile: up to $1,100 off latest iPhone 17
- Walmart: furniture, cheap TVs & vacs from $69
- Wayfair: 54% off Christmas, furniture & decor
Shop more of today’s best Black Friday sales (UK)
- Amazon: up to 66% off tech & essentials
- AO: up to £500 off Dyson, Bosch & Hisense
- Argos: up to 50% off appliances, tech & toys
- Boots: save on 1,000s of beauty products
- Currys: deals on Ninja, Shark & Lenovo
- Dell: laptops from £279
- Dyson: up to £550 off vacuums
- EE: Switch 2 bundles from £20/month
- John Lewis: up to 50% off tech & fashion
- Lego: sets & accessories from £2.99
- Samsung: deals on appliances & phones
- Very: up to 40% off tech, toys & fashion
