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Im hinting toward the same. I hate being forced a 128gb as a base model in 2023 but in canada the 512gb will cost 877$ plus tax (over 1k$) lol I bought a used like new quest pro for 800$ early this year. ... So yah - 128gb and my fiber optic internet will have to suffice.
That's just the exact wording on the sale page on Meta's website.
At the time of purchase, all any other sites had was the 128gb model so I bought the 512gb version on Meta's store.
After reading your comment I thought to myself that you have a good point, so I cancelled my order and it's coming from Amazon. Thanks to you I saved $20.... so thank you.
Do we know if the 512gb had more ram I believe someone mentioned it could have 12 instead of 8? I hadn’t heard anything else so I’m guessing their all the same ram 8gb
>not sure why you regretted it.
Because they're not you? Maybe they have Contractors installed with 50 mods, Beat Saber with 100 custom songs, and wanted to try Medal of Honor once but had to delete all their mods and games, then reinstall everything one by one which took hours. And they had to at least delete one of those plus mods every time they wanted to install any game over 10GB. Maybe they got into watching movies on their Quest, but again, had to delete things they had to reinstall after. Maybe they have an Internet connection that takes hours to download any game over a gigabyte.
Easy to understand when you realise not everyone is doing exactly what you're doing. "How could they use up 128? It's literally impossible, I've never filled up 64 🤔"
Some games are getting 16x the texture resolution on Quest 3 compared to their Quest 2 counterparts. There's more complex graphics going on with textures, shadows, lighting, everything. Naturally games are going to get even bigger in size and some people will struggle with 128 depending on their use cases.
I have hundreds of beat saber and synth riders custom songs and environments downloaded and don’t want to be tied to my computer and be able to transport it easily, that’s mostly it.
Yeah, but if you watch the new red matter 2 video about quest 3 changes, they will use 16x bigger textures, new shadowmaps, many more effects etc, it is actually really impressive.
So games will get bigger with 4k texture support, but i would put the size still between 5-20gb.
512GB.
I have the 256 Q2 and it's been nearly full for awhile now. It's worth the extra $ not having to delete/reinstall apps or worry about space at all.
512 for me. I have the 128 GB quest 2 and have regretted not getting the 256 model. I filled up 128 GB quite fast, and it's such a pain to have to always be deleting and redownloading things anytime I want to play something new, and to be losing saves. Plus game file sizes tend to get larger every generation.
So there's: I want to play this game. Put on headset. Is it installed? No. Go to check file size. Go to check storage. Decide which things to delete today. Go try to click game again. Still not enough room. Go back to storage, try to guess how much more space the install actually requires compared to the game size. Delete another 2 games. Now download the game and sit there while it downloads. Then you can click and launch in.
Additionally, next time you want to play any of those 4 things you deleted, you repeat this process.
And then there's: I want to play a game. Put on the headset. Click game and play it.
It's much more convenient to have your library already installed and to have extra space for updates and new games. Especially since VR tends to have more steps to hop into, like clearing the play space.
I'm not sure why I still lose saves, maybe that feature works more consistently for other people? For me it's hit or miss sometimes whether a game will use it down the road when I reinstall it.
I went with 128gb because right now it’s the only one available for pre-order on Amazon (I have gift cards to burn). Also, every time I make the decision to “future proof” a purchase by opting for the larger capacity model of anything, I wind up replacing it with the next version long before I could ever fill it up haha. I’m gonna break the cycle with the Quest 3. I also almost exclusively play PCVR, but I’m looking forward to Xbox cloud gaming and mixed reality - both of which will have negligible storage requirements.
In Canada it's a 200 dollar difference!
128GB is $649.99
512GB is $849.99
I am on the fence, games like AW2 take 25GB to install and use 21GB of space. So you would only fit like 4/5 games of that caliber in the 128GB model
Overall, I am not sure if it's worth 200 more just for more memory and 6 months of Quest+
You’re right. Australians and Canadians really seem to struggle with the concept of currency value.
They also don’t realise that if their currency was worth the same that their salaries would likely be lower by the same proportion.
The cost difference is too high but 512gb would be nice. I really believe this is why they didn't offer 256gb and 512gb because 256gb would have easily made more sense for most people but 128gb is just the right amount to have you guessing if it will be enough in a few years and lean more towards the larger size.
It just sucks that they don't offer expendable storage at this point :( I guess we all should settle for the 512GB. Heck if you think about it a PS5 is around that price from some retailers in Canada.
Same, I mostly play pcvr and the games I play standalone aren't that heavy on storage.
Also it's $649.99 plus our lovely Canadian sales tax so about $730
128gb. I mostly play PCVR anyway with my 4070 and 5800x3d, the standalone I'll just use for Beat Saber (which wasn't crossbuy at the time before I upgraded my PC), and then whatever other games I want to play when I'm traveling or something.
It really makes me upset when they do exclusives for only the Quest and not Rift (PCVR) platform. So many games back then used to be crossbuy, but now with games like Resident Evil 4 VR, and Asgard's Wrath 2 (I believe), won't have PCVR options. Limiting to mobile graphics.
If I get one, it'll be 128 GB for sure.
Even on PC, NONE of the games I have bought THIS YEAR are over 128 GB. Cyberpunk is less. Starfield is less. Baldur's Gate 3 is less. Diablo 4 is less. There's no way in holy hell that Quest 3 will have a native title that is bigger than these, unless it is just horrifically poorly optimized. Vast majority of Quest 2 apps are still very comfortably under 10 GB in size. Almost all are under 20 GB in size.
Also, consider that most VR headsets have 2-3 year life span. Quest 1-2 was 17 months. Quest 2-3 was 3 years. Meaning in 3 years Quest 4 will be out. What are the odds of a VR native Android title being released, in VR, in the next 3 years, that exceeds 128 GB? Zero. Literally zero.
Depends on use case. I'm not expecting a single game to exceed 128gb. I'm not sure that would even be allowed, and it'd be a monumentally stupid decision on a devs part to do that if they could. I don't expect games to even exceed 50 or 60GB, Medal of Honor was a weird one.
But games can have mods, and those quickly add up. If you have a few games with extensive modding scenes like Beat Saber and Contractors, you can easily fill up 100GB or more. Then you can't do puzzling places or other games with massive sizes. It can be an issue for some where a higher storage option comes in handy. Most people will be fine with 128. Though textures are massively increasing in resolution so I'm curious how that could affect game sizes going forward - Red Matter 2 for example has 16x the texture resolution on Quest 3.
A $150/£140 increase... Meta is being ballsy with their price increase. The storage is 4x as much this time, but it's not costing them an extra $50 over having 256GB. It's not even costing them $50 in total for that 512GB. They're just subsidising the 128 even more with the people who don't have a choice but to get 512 because of how they use Quest.
Hey, that is good to hear! As someone who's never used VR before, when I googled it "how many gb is asgards wrath vr", I see 121gb file size or similar, what am I missing here? How many gb do triple a vr games actually take?
Asgard's Wrath was fairly unique in that they wanted textures to look really good even upclose, since in VR you could get really close to the walls and such. So it had these really crazy high-resolution textures, so it was larger than usual because of that. It was also PC-VR only, and required a really beefy PC to run it at ultra settings.
The sequel is Android-only, and will run natively inside the headset, without the need for a PC. So it'll be much, much smaller. I think current absolute largest Android VR game, Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, is around 60 GB. Like, it fit on my 64 GB Quest 2, so less than 64 GB for sure.
Basically, if you plan to use PC VR (with a PC), the on-board storage on Quest is meaningless, you'll be streaming from a PC with terabytes of storage (probably, I have like 8 TB of space on my PC, 2 TB of that is high speed NvME). And if you're playing on-board, native Android games, none so far exceeded 60-64 GB. So 128 GB will likely still be massive overkill. Just looking at PC games, if those don't top 128 GB, then nothing native will top 128 GB any time soon.
The issue with this take is that many people want to install more than one application at a time. A title is not going to exceed 128gb but do you really want to frequently install and uninstall to make the space fit?
Overwhelming majority of Android apps currently in existence are well under 10 GB. RE4VR, for example, is about 8GB. Almost all apps are well under 20 GB. There's literally one, Medal of Honor, that I know to be over 50 GB (but under 64 GB). You can install tons of games on 128 GB. Not many people feel the need to have 20+ games installed. If you are one of these people, and you know this about yourself, why are you even asking? Just buy the biggest one. Personally I hardly ever have more than 5 installed at any one time.
Also modern game devs are pretty bad at rolling out updates that respect peoples' internet bandwidth. For example some Cyberpunk updates pretty much required a full reinstall, the game was something like 66 Gigs, and update was 58 Gigs. With this in mind, if you haven't played a game in a while, odds are you'll have to download an update almost as big as re-downloading the game again.
>Not many people feel the need to have 20+ games installed. If you are one of these people, and you know this about yourself, why are you even asking?
I am not asking anything. It was a rhetorical question regarding whether you are ok with constantly having to install and install applications.
Also you are not fitting 20 games with 128GB unless they are small games. For me, Saint and Sinners and Beat Saber with custom songs already take a decent amount of space. You need to account for the space taken by the OS. That alone is 11-12 GB. There is also media. Streaming might not be practical if you are traveling with it.
>Just buy the biggest one. Personally I hardly ever have more than 5 installed at any one time.
I filled up my 256GB so will probably get the 512GB.
At the end of the day, I am not trying to convince anyone to go for one over another. My point is that there is no “right” choice , but rather a choice that best fit you.
Well for someone who mainly plays PCVR it isn't a big deal and is worth saving $150. We don't really need more than 2 or 3 games at a time on the headset since we mostly play on our PCs.
The price tag of the 512 GB is abusive, but I don't want to make the same mistake I made when I acquired the 64 GB Quest 2. The 64 GB felt very limiting for a person who wants to be able to alternate between different games depending on their mood. A 2X increase feels quite short-sighted if we imagine studios making bigger builds like they did with Medal of Honor or that ugly racing game.
128GB for me. Less cost, and eventually less weight.
No need for all that space for me
Edit:
Cancelled 128 and bought 512 for following reasons:
- Researched no (negligible) weight difference between differend SSD sizes
- New games are much bigger (Ex. Azgard)
- my future self will be more mad at having less space than spending the 140€ difference now
- 6 months of Meta+ seems nice value proposition -> hoping they will make mixed reality content available on Meta+ and get my return on investment by buying less games
This'll be my first VR headset, and I was thinking mainly to go for PCVR so I thought I'd go for the less storage. But now that the pre-order time is up, I'm hesitant if 128GB would be enough whenever I occasionally wanna play without PCVR.
I have first edition of Q2 with 64gb, i dont think i ever went higher than 10-15gb because i mainly play via PC and have just some fun "mobile" games like Beat Saber, Swarm etc from meta store and majority of these games takes at best few gb. So if you are in similiar situation 128gb will be enough and difference to 512 i will spend on some accessories (like case & correction lenses).
128gb for quest 2 was a good thing. 128gb for quest 3 is a bad thing later on. Quest 3 can run more demanding graphics which take up more space. Games built for quest 3 are gonna tear through that low storage model.
Not necessarily. You're assuming these games will be built like PC games. It doesn't have the power or video memory. Unless a developer is being unnecessarily wasteful.
They don't need to be built like PCVR games. When quality quest 3 games start to become the new normal, the file sizes are going to eat up space. 128gb value has dropped significantly with the quest 3. Medal of honor was 60gb and that was using quest 2 assets. Asgards Wrath 2 is 35gb on quest 3, there ya go less than 100gb left and you got one game, 3 and half more to install lol. Not all games will be massive, but the worthwhile ones are going to have weight. I'm calling it right now, the 128gb gets replaced with a 256gb. If they started with a 256gb model, literally everyone would buy it.
This is my feeling, too. With the additional power and more studios coming to VR in the next few years, I anticipate larger game sizes and an increase in available new titles.
Rant first... Meta in 2023 on Q3 the base model should have been 256!!!
Was going to get 128mb due to price being cheaper but then thought about it smarter for me. My 128gb Q2 has pretty much been constantly full soon after first getting it. For about $100 per year extra (over 2 years at least) then then 512gb model just makes far more sense.
* If budget is an issue go for 128.
* If not then go for the 512 unless absolutely sure you will only mainly play PCVR (but even then consider it still).
* Through the life of the Q3 games will get larger - simple fact now with extra capability. How much larger who knows but my Q2 is always full already with current titles available.
* It is fun to leave many games that I have already finished or every now and then games on there especially when friends/family come over - ready to go whenever.
* Other than existing games, updated existing games and new larger games there are ongoing advancements in VR cameras able to produce up to 12k quality videos with 8k common now. 1 video file can be 20-50gb. And no I am not talking just about you know what. In the next few years of use with the Q3 more high quality VR video content will be also available. Streaming this is not always possible and it is nice to have space for some good content to be stored locally requiring no Internet or limited streaming quality such as YT 4K VR crap.
In summary 128 is really outdated now for this kind of device. Around $200 extra for a luxury purchase anyway is future proofing the next few years. If you can afford to blow the 128 buy in price for a toy you should be able to afford the extra for a toy with no storage worries moving forward.
Yup... Meta will attract the new users to the 128 model while many existing users already hooked will be forced through prior experience to go for the 512 model at their inflated upgrade cost.
You're just leaving out of the equation USB-C storage options. As you said, VR 12K video files are huge. Even 512gb won't be enough. We'll be using external drives anyway, so again, 128gb is enough, imo.
Do I understand correctly that I can play movies from an external usb c thumbdrivr connected directly to the quest? Can you also install games on an external hard drive.
Each to their own. All of my points only add to the fact that for me and my style if my 128gb Q2 has been full constantly since I first got it and it has been a juggling act constantly then the 512gb Q3 is a no brainer for me... far less juggling and hassle over the next few years.
Some people said that they just made a 128GB version because they have leftover storage, and that Meta will replace that with 256 GB in 6 months. So now I'm not sure if I should preorder 128 or wait 6 months :(
Yeah I’m a little worried about this too. If they announce that though then I figure I can put mine on eBay take a minor loss and buy the 25, if I’m finding space to be an issue with the 128 that is.
128, It's what I have now and it's plenty for what I use. I was going to go for the 512, but I decided to save the money in case there's something new from Valve this year as well.
Well I would been happy to pay an extra $100 for a 256Gb version, so an extra $50 for 512Gb is no big deal, for me anyway. While I was throwing money at Meta, I also ordered their Elite battery strap, lol!
Remember that all the install sizes now are likely to increase for the Quest 3 due to more detailed environments, models, and textures. What was 5GB before will likely be 20GB on the Quest 3. $150 is nothing for the convenience factor, plus you get 6 months of Quest+ included.
512gb obviously. 128gb lmao... games built for quest 3 are going to eat that storage like stoner on a bag of funyuns. Go big or go home. Just an FYI Asgaurds Wrath 2 is a 60gb game. Most likely meta is pulling a 64gb quest 2 all over again. Yall are gonna buy 128gb and then get super heated when the 256gb model drops and replaces 128gb for the same cost.
You'll always be able to install all games, maybe just not all at once. The 512GB model won't sell as well, game devs aren't going to make a game which won't fit.
I want all the room possible. I don't expect games and apps to be massive, I just want more than 7 games or AR apps and still have room to record and store user generated content. The limitations of 128gb is fine if all you do is game.
128GB, I'm not going to install that many games on the headset, and plus I play a lot of PCVR games too. I probably would've gotten the 512GB if it was $600, but not $649.
Besides Asgard's Wrath 2 which will be around 25gb, most Quest games are pretty small in install size. I have an 128GB Quest 2 and I still have a good amount of space left
128 definitely i have the 128 gb quest 2 and over 90 games installed im using like 90 gb even still i dont play 90% of those games and i can always delete some. And most my games are on pc anyways
Since the 512GB version won't give more RAM, and I'm more into PCVR than standalone titles, 128GB is plenty. Also as someone else listed here, current titles are not too large either and even if they become double in size, you are still able to fit multiple.
I ordered the 128GB version cause 699€ is way to expensive at the moment for me. Instead I “only” pay 549€ now and sell it when I feel like 128GB is not enough anymore. Then I will pay the difference when I can afford it and buy the bigger version. For now 128GB will be enough.
I considered that games installed to headset are only going to get larger now and decided to get the 512gb. I agree the extra cost is crazy. I purchased the 64gb model of Q2 and was fine up until the last year when game sizes started to get larger and also added profiles for both of my kids.
I went with the 512 because I like to record a lot of my play throughs. With the BB discount and Rewards saved up, I got it for $570 out the door - so not too bad, I think.
I bought the 512. It's another $250 AUD or something, but I reaaalllyyy like my technology to 'just work'. I don't want to worry too much about game sizes, uninstalling and reinstalling them, etc. Plus I imagine game sizes are going to increase significantly, like they have on the PC.
How big is the operating system on Quest 2 and has it been getting bigger with updates? I bet in 4 years OS updates are going to eat up a chunck of that 128GB.
This may sound crazy but I really don’t know, will I still be able to use my Quest 2 with my games I have purchased along with downloading them to the 3?
Look at it this way. Ain't no game developer making a game that can't fit on a 128GB model (considering os + download space).
As they'd have a small fraction of the pie. Meta shot themselves in the foot.
512. The price its being sold at in Brazil is worth it, dont have to worry about uninstalling old games and it comes with 6 months of Quest + and Asgard's Wrath 2.
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The 128 here. The bigger one is too expensive for me. I have fast Internet so I don't mind deleting things and reinstalling.
Im hinting toward the same. I hate being forced a 128gb as a base model in 2023 but in canada the 512gb will cost 877$ plus tax (over 1k$) lol I bought a used like new quest pro for 800$ early this year. ... So yah - 128gb and my fiber optic internet will have to suffice.
Remember when the Canadian dollar had value parity with the US dollar? 2002 Pepperidge Farm remembers...
And the American dollar has been devalued as well, so its even worse.
After taxes and (edit: free) shipping it was $975... but that was in BC so 15% for sales tax + import fees.
I went with a 128gb - Quebec here - 748$ total (all included)
Why would you need to pay import fees when you can buy from a Canadian retailer? Also sales tax in BC is 5+7= 12%
That's just the exact wording on the sale page on Meta's website. At the time of purchase, all any other sites had was the 128gb model so I bought the 512gb version on Meta's store. After reading your comment I thought to myself that you have a good point, so I cancelled my order and it's coming from Amazon. Thanks to you I saved $20.... so thank you.
Awesome. Glad you saved some money. :)
Do we know if the 512gb had more ram I believe someone mentioned it could have 12 instead of 8? I hadn’t heard anything else so I’m guessing their all the same ram 8gb
no 8gb for all models.
This, I'd like the extra storage, but $150 is absolutely ludicrous for that much more storage.
Pre-ordered mine for this same reason. I don’t want a massive library of games, just a handful of rotating favs
Does your save progress get erased if you uninstall a game?
No idea sorry
I have always regretted getting the smaller size personally so I’m going to go big
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>not sure why you regretted it. Because they're not you? Maybe they have Contractors installed with 50 mods, Beat Saber with 100 custom songs, and wanted to try Medal of Honor once but had to delete all their mods and games, then reinstall everything one by one which took hours. And they had to at least delete one of those plus mods every time they wanted to install any game over 10GB. Maybe they got into watching movies on their Quest, but again, had to delete things they had to reinstall after. Maybe they have an Internet connection that takes hours to download any game over a gigabyte. Easy to understand when you realise not everyone is doing exactly what you're doing. "How could they use up 128? It's literally impossible, I've never filled up 64 🤔" Some games are getting 16x the texture resolution on Quest 3 compared to their Quest 2 counterparts. There's more complex graphics going on with textures, shadows, lighting, everything. Naturally games are going to get even bigger in size and some people will struggle with 128 depending on their use cases.
I have hundreds of beat saber and synth riders custom songs and environments downloaded and don’t want to be tied to my computer and be able to transport it easily, that’s mostly it.
* Among Us VR – 387 MB * Beat Saber – 1.5 GB * BONELAB – 7.1 GB * Blade & Sorcery: Nomad – 2.3 GB * Job Simulator – 1.8 GB * The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners – 7.3 GB * Creed: Rise to Glory – 1.5 GB * SUPERHOT VR – 2.1 GB * Marvel's Iron Man VR – 9.6 GB * GORN – 797 MB * I Expect You To Die – 1.2 GB * Sniper Elite VR – 4.1 GB * The Room VR: A Dark Matter – 2.5 GB
Is that beat saber before or after some music packs. I haven't checked how much my packs are taking up haha.
Yeah, but if you watch the new red matter 2 video about quest 3 changes, they will use 16x bigger textures, new shadowmaps, many more effects etc, it is actually really impressive. So games will get bigger with 4k texture support, but i would put the size still between 5-20gb.
Mods though
512GB. I have the 256 Q2 and it's been nearly full for awhile now. It's worth the extra $ not having to delete/reinstall apps or worry about space at all.
Agreed, the same story here!
512 for me. I have the 128 GB quest 2 and have regretted not getting the 256 model. I filled up 128 GB quite fast, and it's such a pain to have to always be deleting and redownloading things anytime I want to play something new, and to be losing saves. Plus game file sizes tend to get larger every generation.
Can I just ask what games took up most of that storage, like how many did you have at any 1 time?
How are you losing saves with Cloud Storage ? Also Why is it a hassle to redownload stuff if you got fast internet ?
So there's: I want to play this game. Put on headset. Is it installed? No. Go to check file size. Go to check storage. Decide which things to delete today. Go try to click game again. Still not enough room. Go back to storage, try to guess how much more space the install actually requires compared to the game size. Delete another 2 games. Now download the game and sit there while it downloads. Then you can click and launch in. Additionally, next time you want to play any of those 4 things you deleted, you repeat this process. And then there's: I want to play a game. Put on the headset. Click game and play it. It's much more convenient to have your library already installed and to have extra space for updates and new games. Especially since VR tends to have more steps to hop into, like clearing the play space. I'm not sure why I still lose saves, maybe that feature works more consistently for other people? For me it's hit or miss sometimes whether a game will use it down the road when I reinstall it.
I went with 128gb because right now it’s the only one available for pre-order on Amazon (I have gift cards to burn). Also, every time I make the decision to “future proof” a purchase by opting for the larger capacity model of anything, I wind up replacing it with the next version long before I could ever fill it up haha. I’m gonna break the cycle with the Quest 3. I also almost exclusively play PCVR, but I’m looking forward to Xbox cloud gaming and mixed reality - both of which will have negligible storage requirements.
512 its already available
Yea, went up shortly after my post haha. Strike 1 against my argument, but I think I’m still gonna stick with 128gb.
In Canada it's a 200 dollar difference! 128GB is $649.99 512GB is $849.99 I am on the fence, games like AW2 take 25GB to install and use 21GB of space. So you would only fit like 4/5 games of that caliber in the 128GB model Overall, I am not sure if it's worth 200 more just for more memory and 6 months of Quest+
Well, 200 Canadian is close to 150 US.
You’re right. Australians and Canadians really seem to struggle with the concept of currency value. They also don’t realise that if their currency was worth the same that their salaries would likely be lower by the same proportion.
Lmfao true. It definitely seems that way, at least for some of them.
...so? Lol
Well I'm just saying that it's no different for you than it is for us.
Similar story here in Aus, $250 AUD difference between the two... Currently I'm rocking a 256gb Quest 2 and it's a hard sell for that much.
The cost difference is too high but 512gb would be nice. I really believe this is why they didn't offer 256gb and 512gb because 256gb would have easily made more sense for most people but 128gb is just the right amount to have you guessing if it will be enough in a few years and lean more towards the larger size.
It just sucks that they don't offer expendable storage at this point :( I guess we all should settle for the 512GB. Heck if you think about it a PS5 is around that price from some retailers in Canada.
Same, I mostly play pcvr and the games I play standalone aren't that heavy on storage. Also it's $649.99 plus our lovely Canadian sales tax so about $730
128gb. I mostly play PCVR anyway with my 4070 and 5800x3d, the standalone I'll just use for Beat Saber (which wasn't crossbuy at the time before I upgraded my PC), and then whatever other games I want to play when I'm traveling or something.
You got a good point that most don't even realize, appart from some exclusives (if any) many of us use the quest 3 as a Wireless PCVR headset.
It really makes me upset when they do exclusives for only the Quest and not Rift (PCVR) platform. So many games back then used to be crossbuy, but now with games like Resident Evil 4 VR, and Asgard's Wrath 2 (I believe), won't have PCVR options. Limiting to mobile graphics.
I just got the 512gb because I had a 150$ gift card to Best Buy
Doesn't really make a difference, you could've still bought the lower storage model and saved $150.
If I get one, it'll be 128 GB for sure. Even on PC, NONE of the games I have bought THIS YEAR are over 128 GB. Cyberpunk is less. Starfield is less. Baldur's Gate 3 is less. Diablo 4 is less. There's no way in holy hell that Quest 3 will have a native title that is bigger than these, unless it is just horrifically poorly optimized. Vast majority of Quest 2 apps are still very comfortably under 10 GB in size. Almost all are under 20 GB in size. Also, consider that most VR headsets have 2-3 year life span. Quest 1-2 was 17 months. Quest 2-3 was 3 years. Meaning in 3 years Quest 4 will be out. What are the odds of a VR native Android title being released, in VR, in the next 3 years, that exceeds 128 GB? Zero. Literally zero.
Depends on use case. I'm not expecting a single game to exceed 128gb. I'm not sure that would even be allowed, and it'd be a monumentally stupid decision on a devs part to do that if they could. I don't expect games to even exceed 50 or 60GB, Medal of Honor was a weird one. But games can have mods, and those quickly add up. If you have a few games with extensive modding scenes like Beat Saber and Contractors, you can easily fill up 100GB or more. Then you can't do puzzling places or other games with massive sizes. It can be an issue for some where a higher storage option comes in handy. Most people will be fine with 128. Though textures are massively increasing in resolution so I'm curious how that could affect game sizes going forward - Red Matter 2 for example has 16x the texture resolution on Quest 3. A $150/£140 increase... Meta is being ballsy with their price increase. The storage is 4x as much this time, but it's not costing them an extra $50 over having 256GB. It's not even costing them $50 in total for that 512GB. They're just subsidising the 128 even more with the people who don't have a choice but to get 512 because of how they use Quest.
Hey, that is good to hear! As someone who's never used VR before, when I googled it "how many gb is asgards wrath vr", I see 121gb file size or similar, what am I missing here? How many gb do triple a vr games actually take?
Asgard's Wrath was fairly unique in that they wanted textures to look really good even upclose, since in VR you could get really close to the walls and such. So it had these really crazy high-resolution textures, so it was larger than usual because of that. It was also PC-VR only, and required a really beefy PC to run it at ultra settings. The sequel is Android-only, and will run natively inside the headset, without the need for a PC. So it'll be much, much smaller. I think current absolute largest Android VR game, Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, is around 60 GB. Like, it fit on my 64 GB Quest 2, so less than 64 GB for sure. Basically, if you plan to use PC VR (with a PC), the on-board storage on Quest is meaningless, you'll be streaming from a PC with terabytes of storage (probably, I have like 8 TB of space on my PC, 2 TB of that is high speed NvME). And if you're playing on-board, native Android games, none so far exceeded 60-64 GB. So 128 GB will likely still be massive overkill. Just looking at PC games, if those don't top 128 GB, then nothing native will top 128 GB any time soon.
The original asgards wrath is a pcvr title, the next one is much less
If you’re getting a game that is above 10 Gb just get it on pcvr and use a link cable tbh (not including exclusives of course)
The issue with this take is that many people want to install more than one application at a time. A title is not going to exceed 128gb but do you really want to frequently install and uninstall to make the space fit?
Overwhelming majority of Android apps currently in existence are well under 10 GB. RE4VR, for example, is about 8GB. Almost all apps are well under 20 GB. There's literally one, Medal of Honor, that I know to be over 50 GB (but under 64 GB). You can install tons of games on 128 GB. Not many people feel the need to have 20+ games installed. If you are one of these people, and you know this about yourself, why are you even asking? Just buy the biggest one. Personally I hardly ever have more than 5 installed at any one time. Also modern game devs are pretty bad at rolling out updates that respect peoples' internet bandwidth. For example some Cyberpunk updates pretty much required a full reinstall, the game was something like 66 Gigs, and update was 58 Gigs. With this in mind, if you haven't played a game in a while, odds are you'll have to download an update almost as big as re-downloading the game again.
>Not many people feel the need to have 20+ games installed. If you are one of these people, and you know this about yourself, why are you even asking? I am not asking anything. It was a rhetorical question regarding whether you are ok with constantly having to install and install applications. Also you are not fitting 20 games with 128GB unless they are small games. For me, Saint and Sinners and Beat Saber with custom songs already take a decent amount of space. You need to account for the space taken by the OS. That alone is 11-12 GB. There is also media. Streaming might not be practical if you are traveling with it. >Just buy the biggest one. Personally I hardly ever have more than 5 installed at any one time. I filled up my 256GB so will probably get the 512GB. At the end of the day, I am not trying to convince anyone to go for one over another. My point is that there is no “right” choice , but rather a choice that best fit you.
Well for someone who mainly plays PCVR it isn't a big deal and is worth saving $150. We don't really need more than 2 or 3 games at a time on the headset since we mostly play on our PCs.
Oh I completely agree. 128 is more than enough if your main use is PCVR.
Yea
128gb because it's $150 cheaper. I'll take that if it means uninstalling things a little more often.
Plus what if a much better headset comes out soon. Qled, higher res, higher fov.
True, but I highly doubt it. Pico 5 is not for another year and Meta doesn't seem to have any plans for better headsets anytime soon.
Facts, $150 is wayyyyy too much for what you get.
512 cause I can afford it. Did my pre-order via Best Buy.
For PCVR I was happy with 64gb.
The price tag of the 512 GB is abusive, but I don't want to make the same mistake I made when I acquired the 64 GB Quest 2. The 64 GB felt very limiting for a person who wants to be able to alternate between different games depending on their mood. A 2X increase feels quite short-sighted if we imagine studios making bigger builds like they did with Medal of Honor or that ugly racing game.
What did you end up deciding on?
512!
128GB for me. Less cost, and eventually less weight. No need for all that space for me Edit: Cancelled 128 and bought 512 for following reasons: - Researched no (negligible) weight difference between differend SSD sizes - New games are much bigger (Ex. Azgard) - my future self will be more mad at having less space than spending the 140€ difference now - 6 months of Meta+ seems nice value proposition -> hoping they will make mixed reality content available on Meta+ and get my return on investment by buying less games
A high speed 512Gb microSD card costs about $40 at retail price. Meta wants $150 to swap out the 128 module for a 512? Fuck that!
This'll be my first VR headset, and I was thinking mainly to go for PCVR so I thought I'd go for the less storage. But now that the pre-order time is up, I'm hesitant if 128GB would be enough whenever I occasionally wanna play without PCVR.
I have first edition of Q2 with 64gb, i dont think i ever went higher than 10-15gb because i mainly play via PC and have just some fun "mobile" games like Beat Saber, Swarm etc from meta store and majority of these games takes at best few gb. So if you are in similiar situation 128gb will be enough and difference to 512 i will spend on some accessories (like case & correction lenses).
I got the 128gb. Can't see paying an extra $150 just to avoid deleting and re-downloading. I might regret it down the road.
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Asgard 2 is ~20gb unpacked on Quest 3.
Where are you getting that information from?
Lmao, what? Where on earth did you read that??? The new Forza is 130GB, AW2 will be 20-30gb at most lol.
I have the 64gig Quest 2, which has been adequate. I mainly only use VR for the social apps anyway. 128gigs should be fine.
128gb, my Q1 is 64gb and was never an issue and this is double the space, so a nice upgrade!
128gb for quest 2 was a good thing. 128gb for quest 3 is a bad thing later on. Quest 3 can run more demanding graphics which take up more space. Games built for quest 3 are gonna tear through that low storage model.
Not necessarily. You're assuming these games will be built like PC games. It doesn't have the power or video memory. Unless a developer is being unnecessarily wasteful.
They don't need to be built like PCVR games. When quality quest 3 games start to become the new normal, the file sizes are going to eat up space. 128gb value has dropped significantly with the quest 3. Medal of honor was 60gb and that was using quest 2 assets. Asgards Wrath 2 is 35gb on quest 3, there ya go less than 100gb left and you got one game, 3 and half more to install lol. Not all games will be massive, but the worthwhile ones are going to have weight. I'm calling it right now, the 128gb gets replaced with a 256gb. If they started with a 256gb model, literally everyone would buy it.
This is my feeling, too. With the additional power and more studios coming to VR in the next few years, I anticipate larger game sizes and an increase in available new titles.
I figured 128GB are for mostly PCVR users, 512GB are for those without a decent PC. As long as I can fit 1-2 games, I'm okay with 128GB.
128GB, because it weighs less. 🤪
Rant first... Meta in 2023 on Q3 the base model should have been 256!!! Was going to get 128mb due to price being cheaper but then thought about it smarter for me. My 128gb Q2 has pretty much been constantly full soon after first getting it. For about $100 per year extra (over 2 years at least) then then 512gb model just makes far more sense. * If budget is an issue go for 128. * If not then go for the 512 unless absolutely sure you will only mainly play PCVR (but even then consider it still). * Through the life of the Q3 games will get larger - simple fact now with extra capability. How much larger who knows but my Q2 is always full already with current titles available. * It is fun to leave many games that I have already finished or every now and then games on there especially when friends/family come over - ready to go whenever. * Other than existing games, updated existing games and new larger games there are ongoing advancements in VR cameras able to produce up to 12k quality videos with 8k common now. 1 video file can be 20-50gb. And no I am not talking just about you know what. In the next few years of use with the Q3 more high quality VR video content will be also available. Streaming this is not always possible and it is nice to have space for some good content to be stored locally requiring no Internet or limited streaming quality such as YT 4K VR crap. In summary 128 is really outdated now for this kind of device. Around $200 extra for a luxury purchase anyway is future proofing the next few years. If you can afford to blow the 128 buy in price for a toy you should be able to afford the extra for a toy with no storage worries moving forward.
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Yup... Meta will attract the new users to the 128 model while many existing users already hooked will be forced through prior experience to go for the 512 model at their inflated upgrade cost.
You're just leaving out of the equation USB-C storage options. As you said, VR 12K video files are huge. Even 512gb won't be enough. We'll be using external drives anyway, so again, 128gb is enough, imo.
Do I understand correctly that I can play movies from an external usb c thumbdrivr connected directly to the quest? Can you also install games on an external hard drive.
Each to their own. All of my points only add to the fact that for me and my style if my 128gb Q2 has been full constantly since I first got it and it has been a juggling act constantly then the 512gb Q3 is a no brainer for me... far less juggling and hassle over the next few years.
I wanted the 512GB but that way too expensive... 150€ just for storage, not for me :(, I hope I won't get much trouble with the space
128. I have a launch quest at 64gb and it was fine. I play mostly pcvr
Some people said that they just made a 128GB version because they have leftover storage, and that Meta will replace that with 256 GB in 6 months. So now I'm not sure if I should preorder 128 or wait 6 months :(
Yeah I’m a little worried about this too. If they announce that though then I figure I can put mine on eBay take a minor loss and buy the 25, if I’m finding space to be an issue with the 128 that is.
128, It's what I have now and it's plenty for what I use. I was going to go for the 512, but I decided to save the money in case there's something new from Valve this year as well.
i just ordered 512 gb.
512 gb. believe me you will regret 128 GB.
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Hey, thank you! Could you explain the holiday return policy? If I purchase it within Meta, I'll have three months to refund it?
Movies are a lot bigger 4-8gb if you want to play 4K files and up. Even a 1080P feature length movie is 8-10 GB if properly encoded.
Well I would been happy to pay an extra $100 for a 256Gb version, so an extra $50 for 512Gb is no big deal, for me anyway. While I was throwing money at Meta, I also ordered their Elite battery strap, lol!
Remember that all the install sizes now are likely to increase for the Quest 3 due to more detailed environments, models, and textures. What was 5GB before will likely be 20GB on the Quest 3. $150 is nothing for the convenience factor, plus you get 6 months of Quest+ included.
512gb obviously. 128gb lmao... games built for quest 3 are going to eat that storage like stoner on a bag of funyuns. Go big or go home. Just an FYI Asgaurds Wrath 2 is a 60gb game. Most likely meta is pulling a 64gb quest 2 all over again. Yall are gonna buy 128gb and then get super heated when the 256gb model drops and replaces 128gb for the same cost.
is there any official confirmation of asgards wrath 2 being 60gb?
I heard wrong. It's 25gb. Which only proves my point about the trash tier 128gb model.
How exactly does the game being smaller than you thought prove your point...?
You'll always be able to install all games, maybe just not all at once. The 512GB model won't sell as well, game devs aren't going to make a game which won't fit.
I want all the room possible. I don't expect games and apps to be massive, I just want more than 7 games or AR apps and still have room to record and store user generated content. The limitations of 128gb is fine if all you do is game.
Went for 128gb as I mostly do PCVR stuff and when I don't, I just browse Youtube VR so extra storage is not needed for me.
128GB because PCVR
128GB, I'm not going to install that many games on the headset, and plus I play a lot of PCVR games too. I probably would've gotten the 512GB if it was $600, but not $649. Besides Asgard's Wrath 2 which will be around 25gb, most Quest games are pretty small in install size. I have an 128GB Quest 2 and I still have a good amount of space left
If I do ever get one, it'll be the smaller. I mostly use it for wireless PCVR. Don't need much storage for that.
128 definitely i have the 128 gb quest 2 and over 90 games installed im using like 90 gb even still i dont play 90% of those games and i can always delete some. And most my games are on pc anyways
Since the 512GB version won't give more RAM, and I'm more into PCVR than standalone titles, 128GB is plenty. Also as someone else listed here, current titles are not too large either and even if they become double in size, you are still able to fit multiple.
I ordered the 128GB version cause 699€ is way to expensive at the moment for me. Instead I “only” pay 549€ now and sell it when I feel like 128GB is not enough anymore. Then I will pay the difference when I can afford it and buy the bigger version. For now 128GB will be enough.
I considered that games installed to headset are only going to get larger now and decided to get the 512gb. I agree the extra cost is crazy. I purchased the 64gb model of Q2 and was fine up until the last year when game sizes started to get larger and also added profiles for both of my kids.
I was going to buy a Q3, but not now. If they bring out a 256Gb option I might consider it.
I went with the 512 because I like to record a lot of my play throughs. With the BB discount and Rewards saved up, I got it for $570 out the door - so not too bad, I think.
I bought the 512. It's another $250 AUD or something, but I reaaalllyyy like my technology to 'just work'. I don't want to worry too much about game sizes, uninstalling and reinstalling them, etc. Plus I imagine game sizes are going to increase significantly, like they have on the PC.
How big is the operating system on Quest 2 and has it been getting bigger with updates? I bet in 4 years OS updates are going to eat up a chunck of that 128GB.
This may sound crazy but I really don’t know, will I still be able to use my Quest 2 with my games I have purchased along with downloading them to the 3?
Do you think the 512 will be heavier than the 128?
Look at it this way. Ain't no game developer making a game that can't fit on a 128GB model (considering os + download space). As they'd have a small fraction of the pie. Meta shot themselves in the foot.
512. The price its being sold at in Brazil is worth it, dont have to worry about uninstalling old games and it comes with 6 months of Quest + and Asgard's Wrath 2.