- Lenovo has increased the price of its 2TB Legion Go 2 to $2,850
- Handheld now costs more than two Nvidia RTX 5080 Founders Edition GPUs
- Lenovo has not said why there has been a price increase, but recent trends suggest that the memory crisis is related.
There has been a gradual calm in the storm that is currently the memory crisis and its impact on PC hardware, specifically with the price drop of RAM kits, but the chaos is far from over, and Lenovo has just proven it.
As reported by Notebookcheck, the Lenovo Legion Go 2 Ryzen Z2 Extreme 2TB model now costs $2,850 and is listed on Lenovo’s online store, a significant price increase from the original retail price of $1,480. This comes shortly after the cost of the 1TB model increased to $2,000, which is $650 more than the original price of $1,350.
Notably, the $2,850 price of the 2TB model makes the Windows-based handheld more expensive than two Nvidia RTX 5080 Founders Edition GPUs, which would cost $1,998, and more expensive than a single RTX 5090, the most powerful desktop GPU currently available.
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To say the pricing here for handheld gaming devices is absurd would be an understatement. While the RAM crisis and the unstable PC hardware market are likely to blame in this case, it’s difficult for any consumer to justify paying rent for a device that’s not even the best in its own league.
There are portable devices like the GPD Win 5 that cost less than the Legion Go 2 2TB and offer gaming laptop-level performance, using the AMD Ryzen Al Max+ 395. It’s hard to see a world where gamers would choose the Lenovo Legion Go 2, frankly, over any product that’s in the same $2,000+ price region.
Lenovo has not yet given any explanation as to why the price increase has occurred, but if the recent trend of price increases is anything to go by, it is due to the memory crisis. That’s no way out for Lenovo, though, as $2,000 just for its 1TB model is unfeasible, and $2,850 seems like a late April Fool’s Day joke.
Unfortunately, price jumps like this have occurred and at this rate, it looks like events are only going to get worse as the crisis continues.
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