Quest 2 shortly rose to change into the most-used VR headset on Steam, however final month it crossed a brand new milestone as the vast majority of headsets used on the platform.
Quest 2’s aggressive worth level and skill for use as each a standalone and PC VR headset propelled it to change into the most-used VR headset on Steam again in February 2021, simply 4 months after its launch.
From there it has solely continued to develop, and now the most recent knowledge from Valve’s Steam Survey reveals that Quest 2 now makes up the vast majority of headsets on the platform at 50.32% (+1.3%).
In fact Quest 2 isn’t the one Meta headset used on Steam. Quest 2, Quest 1, Rift S, and Rift collectively grew barely within the final month to 67.16% (+0.48%), with the seller’s general positive factors in any other case lowered by the Rift S dropping to 9.88% (−0.72%). That sees Meta persevering with to carry greater than two thirds of the VR headsets on Steam.
Although Quest 2 has undoubtedly grown shortly, the headset’s latest worth enhance will most likely scale back its progress fee in comparison with what we’ve seen to this point.
Whereas the portion of particular person headsets used on Steam seems to be appropriate within the newest spherical of knowledge from Valve, the full portion of Steam customers utilizing VR headsets has been fluctuating wildly in the previous couple of months, apparently erroneously. We’ve reached out to Valve on a number of events for touch upon the difficulty however have but to obtain a response.