Quest 3 simply started delivery final week and headsets are quickly arriving within the fingers of keen consumers. Whereas the 128GB mannequin seems to be in robust provide, the costlier 512GB mannequin is likely to be extra widespread than Meta anticipated.

We checked inventory availability for direct purchases from Meta.com for Quest 3 (128GB) and Quest 3 (512GB) throughout all areas the place the headsets are bought. The newest reveals that almost all areas estimate supply of the 128GB mannequin inside one week, however the 512GB mannequin received’t ship for every week or extra in most areas:

That appears stunning contemplating that Quest 3 is the corporate’s most costly Quest headset but, priced at $500 for the 128GB mannequin and going as much as $650 for the 512GB mannequin.

There’s a couple of potential explanations for the present inventory state of affairs:

• Meta underestimated demand for the 512GB mannequin
• Meta anticipated the demand for the 512GB mannequin and put aside extra of the preliminary stock for third-party retailers
• For some manufacturing cause, Meta couldn’t construct up as a lot preliminary inventory of the 512GB mannequin, or can’t manufacture them as shortly

After all, Quest 3 can also be accessible in lots of different shops, like Amazon, Finest Purchase, and different regional retailers, every of which have totally different ranges of inventory.

We’ll proceed to observe the inventory of each Quest 3 fashions to know extra about how they’re promoting.