Facebook opened preorders for the Oculus Quest and Rift S yesterday, with an initial shipping date of May 21. After one day of preorders, the website now provides an estimate of May 24 in the USA- indicating that the first three days worth of stock have sold out.
Orders placed early yesterday still show a shipping date of May 21, so this isn’t an overall delay- it’s simply stock being sold to preorders.
Of course, this doesn’t really tell us anything about how well Quest and Rift S preorders are selling. We don’t know the production rate or how Facebook has allocated stock between retailers. But being sold out of two days of stock already probably does indicate the launch wasn’t a total failure.
The fact that both headsets are the same amount delayed does however seem to indicate that neither product under or over performed relative to each other. Valve announced pricing and specs for its Index PC VR system just before Rift S preorders opened, but the $999 pricepoint means it doesn’t seem to have dampened demand for Rift S.
While we may never know exact sales figures for either headset, we will be able to get an idea of Rift S sales relative to other PC headsets when the June Steam Hardware survey is released in early July. The Steam Hardware Survey records which headsets are connected to the PCs of users which opt in.
Both headsets will be sold at Best Buy stores, but given this stock availability it’s unclear how easy it will actually be to pick one up on launch day.
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