- Lenovo has raised the price of its 2TB Legion Go 2 to $2,850
- The handheld now costs more than two Nvidia RTX 5080 Founders Edition GPUs
- Lenovo has not disclosed why there has been a price increase, but recent trends suggest that the memory crisis is related
There has been a gradual lull over the current raging storm that is the memory crisis and its impact on PC hardware, especially with RAM kits slowly dropping in price, but the chaos is far from over and Lenovo just proved it.
As reported by Notebookcheck, the Lenovo Legion Go 2 Ryzen Z2 Extreme 2TB model is now $2,850 listed on Lenovo’s online store, a significant price increase from the original $1,480 retail price. This comes shortly after the price of the 1TB model was increased by up to $2,000, which is $650 more than the original $1,350 price.
Notably, the 2TB model’s $2,850 price 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 at the moment.
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To say that the prices here for handheld gaming devices are absurd would be an understatement. While the RAM crisis and the volatile PC hardware market are likely to blame in this case, it’s hard for any consumer to justify paying rent for a device that isn’t even the best in its own league.
There are handhelds such as the GPD Win 5 that cost less than the Legion Go 2 2TB and offer gaming laptop-tier performance, using the AMD Ryzen Al Max+ 395. It’s hard to see any world where gamers will choose the Lenovo Legion Go 2, frankly, over any product in the same price range of $2,000 or more.
Lenovo has yet to provide 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. It’s not an out for Lenovo, though, as $2,000 for its 1TB model alone is impossible, and $2,850 feels like a late April fool.
Unfortunately, price jumps like these have arrived and at this rate it feels like matters will only get worse as the crisis continues.
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