The more time that passes, the more I feel regret with being an early adopter of the first Quest. Just barely a year and a half after the Quest 1 released, the Quest 2, with so many improvements, dropped that made me feel like I should have just waited to shell out 300-400 dollars on a VR headset. I just never thought that they would have the original Quest replaced so soon. Granted, while it was not as bad to how Facebook/Meta treated the Rift S, I still can't help but feel like they very quickly left the first Quest and its consumers behind, and it's made me feel a lot less motivated to play my on my original Quest.

With software updates and features that are exclusive for the Quest 2, or take a decent while to make their way to Quest 1 owners, and the increase of games that are exclusive to the Quest 2 (such as Resident Evil, Blade and Sorcery Nomad, and, while yet confirmed, most likely the upcoming Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas VR port/remake), I can't help but feel like I'm missing out on a lot of the benefits and fun of Quest because I decided to support it early (and it wasn't even that long ago still, as it hasn't even been 3 full years since the original Quest dropped).

Maybe it's just me, but now I'm super weary of buying new VR headsets, especially from Meta, since I feel like any hardware I buy from them could very well only have a shelf life of a year or so before it gets slowly done dirty like the Quest 1 and Rift S. I didn't want to buy the Quest 2 because it was way too soon to drop a few hundred dollars on another VR headset. Meta, I feel like as a company has had a bit of a problem with their longevity of their VR products, but here's to hoping that the upcoming Project Cambria is a different story and won't be shafted for something way better, something that feels a lot more refined and usable, and something way less cheaper that does everything the last one did but better, the literal year-year and half after release (fingers crossed).

Let me know if there are any Quest 1 only users that also feel this type of way (or perhaps you don't). In my opinion, Meta/Facebook should take a page from Sony/Microsoft's book of supporting their last gen hardware (with the PS4 and Xbox One) even when the next gen hardware has already been released for more than a year (with updates still frequently being released for the last gen consoles, and the biggest titles still releasing on them as well such as Spider Man: Miles Morales, Forza, Halo Infinite, Horizon: Forbidden West, God of War 2: Ragnorok etc).

But I suppose time will only tell.