SuperData Research's extended reality sales data for Q3 2019.
SuperData Research's extended reality sales data for Q3 2019.
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SuperData: Facebook sold 180,000 Oculus Quests in Q3 2019

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Back in September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at Oculus Connect 6 that the company was making Oculus Quest virtual reality headsets as fast as it could make them. But apparently Facebook isn’t able to make all that many of them.

Nielsen’s SuperData market research firm said that Oculus sold 180,000 units of the Oculus Quest in the third quarter ended September 30. Lifetime sales of the Quest, which is a wireless version of the Oculus headset, are now at 400,000 units. In the grand scheme of things, that’s not that many.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.