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Cause Rift-S is a partnership with Lenovo and thus needs a bigger profit margin. This margin also lends itself to being better at being sold on sales like the upcoming black friday.

Rift-S is now confirmed to be the Budget poorfag option.
The quest also is quite expensive actually, it's highly modd-able, first thing you want is better audio via audio straps, then better microphone then you'd want the link cable, then if you pick 128gb instead of 64gb. All these costs add up.