Quest 3 won’t replace Quest 2 for “quite a while,” confirms Meta

You don’t have to worry about that anytime soon, according to the company’s CTO. “All of the games we announced at the Gaming Showcase are playable on both Quest 2 and Quest 3, and we expect this to remain the norm for some time,” Meta CTO and VR/AR head Andrew “Boz” Bosworth tells me .

However, he doesn’t rule out the possibility of Quest 3-exclusive or Quest 3-best games: “Of course, mixed reality and high-powered titles may start making their way to Quest 3 over time,” he adds.

This makes some sense to me: after all, the Quest 2 doesn’t have full-color cameras to let you properly integrate your real-world surroundings into a game, unlike the Quest Pro and the new Quest 3. And I’d hate for a potentially app-killing, to be held back by the Quest 2’s processing power – although Meta has promised to boost the Quest 2’s performance with a software update.

As another data point, Steam’s latest hardware survey shows that over 45 percent of VR headset users there are connecting the Quest 2 to their gaming PC, compared to just over 2 percent using the original Quest.

Boz still hasn’t answered my follow-up question about retroactively closing games (see below); I’ll update here if it does.