UPDATE: The Meta Quest 2 price drop has hit Australian stores. You can now get the 128GB version from Amazon for $509 and the 256GB for $589. This is a price drop of $120 and $200 respectively.
ORIGINAL STORY: In addition to announcing the Meta Quest 3, Meta also announced big changes for the Meta Quest 2 both in the way of price, but also a surprising announcement about a performance increase.
To sit alongside the new Meta Quest 3 which will retail for $829 AUD when it launches later this year, the Meta Quest 2 will get a significant price drop down to $299.99 USD (~$457 AUD) for the 128GB version and $349 USD (~$533 AUD) for the 256GB version as of June 4th.
That’s not all though, the Meta Quest 2 will get a performance increase of up to 26% on the CPU side and an up to 19% increase on the GPU side, with Dynamic Resolution Scaling also getting enabled, so games will be able to take advantages of all of these features after an upcoming update hits.
Certainly not something we see every day in the console space, especially as the company just announced a new headset, but will be much welcomed by those that own the Meta Quest 2.