🎮 Gaming Apr 17, 2026 · Kyle Orland

Meta's AI spending spree is helping make its Quest headsets more expensive

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Meta's AI spending spree is helping make its Quest headsets more expensive
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The rising costs of RAM and other computing components are pushing up the price of Meta's Quest VR headsets, which the company says will increase by $50–$100 (about 12–20 percent) starting on April 19. In announcing that price increase on Thursday, the company cited the "global surge in the price of critical components—specifically memory chips—[that] is impacting almost every category of consumer electronics, including VR."
But unlike many of the other tech companies that have been pushed into

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