PICO 4’s Black Friday deal drops the price of this headset to an all-time low and comes with three freeVR games.
PICO PICO 4 was launched over a year ago. The normal price is €430/£380 for the 128GB model and €500/£450 for the 256GB model.
The Black Friday special will run from now until the end of Monday, temporarily reducing these prices to €330/£260 for the 128GB model and €400/£350 for the 256GB model.Discounted items should be available at all official partner retailers.
In addition to hardware discounts, the deal also includes three free VR games: "Green Hell VR", "Fighter: Battle for the Pacific" and the upcoming blockbuster "Arizona Sunshine 2", with a total value of approximately €100/£80.
PICO 4在规格和价格上通常处于MetaQuest 2 and Quest 3. It had dual 2K displays and flat lenses a year before the Quest 3 launched, but used the same original Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1 chipset as the Quest 2 (less than half the GPU power of the Quest 3) and lacked scene-aware mixing Realistic functions.
PICO 4 is not sold in North America, reportedly due to regulatory scrutiny of the TikTok app owned by ByteDance parent company. While ByteDance has funded developers to port most of the main Quest store content to PICO 4, it's missing Meta-exclusive indie games like Beat Saber, Resident Evil 4, Population: One, and Frontline Ops 》. Considering recent events, there are significant concerns about the future of the PICO platform.
Meta is also offering its own Black Friday deal, offering the Quest 2 for €300/£250, with a €50/£50 universal credit included. These points can be used to get merchandise credit at Amazon or Quest store credit for VR games at the Meta store.
Whether you think this is a better or worse deal depends on your personal needs for the three specific games PICO has to offer, as well as your preference for flat lenses and risk tolerance for ByteDance's uncertain commitment to VR. .
You should also know that Meta seems to be planning to launch a "Quest 3 Lite" next year, which will likely be similar in price to the Quest 2 and PICO 4 and be powered by the new Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chipset. If this product is successful, developers can focus less on making their games run smoothly while looking good on the XR2 Gen 1 headset. But if you're planning on buying a headset this holiday season, the PICO 4's Black Friday deal is one of the best value deals we've seen in VR history. But if you're going to jump in, also remember that the future of the platform isn't clear.
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