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The Quest 2 is currently being supplanted by the $500 Quest 3<\/a>, of course, but it\u2019s still an incredible entry point to VR, one that plays every Quest game except for a single Quest 3-exclusive title<\/a> announced last month. It doesn\u2019t have color passthrough vision or good mixed reality gaming, and I definitely prefer the Quest 3 for comfort and immersion, but I don\u2019t know if I prefer it by $300. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n I do have concerns about how long Meta will support the Quest 2 after seeing how much the company dissed the original Quest by retroactively shutting down fan-favorite games and pulling support<\/a>. Meta CTO Andrew \u201cBoz\u201d Bosworth told me we should expect first-party games to support Quest 2 for \u201cquite a while\u201d last June<\/a> but didn\u2019t answer my question about whether Meta might retroactively shut down games on Quest 2. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Still, there are millions more reasons to support Quest 2: it was the most popular headset the company\u2019s ever produced and the lion\u2019s share of the 20 million headsets Meta sold as of February 2023. It was in such high demand during the pandemic that Meta actually raised <\/em>the price<\/a> on a then-two-year-old gadget in 2022. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n For now, the Quest 2 can even get some updates ahead of the Quest 3, like the lying down mode<\/a> that arrived in March and took another month to hit Meta\u2019s newer headset.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n