The worldwide GPU shortage may have claimed yet another victim. Lenovo has raised the price of some models of its handheld gaming PC, the Legion Go 2, by nearly 50%, according to its website, less than five months after it first launched. The lower-end AMD Ryzen Z2 16GB RAM model has gone from $1,099.99 to $1,499.99, an increase of roughly 36%.
Meanwhile, the higher-end Ryzen Z2 Extreme 32GB has jumped almost 48% to $1,999.99, up from $1,349.99 when it first launched, according to Insider Gaming, which first spotted the price hike on the Best Buy website. The Legion Go 2, which launched in October 2025 and competes with the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X and the Steam Deck, essentially offers a powerful Windows gaming PC in the shape of a handheld console. The latest price rise puts Lenovo’s handheld squarely in ultra-premium territory, as its higher-end 32GB model is now over $1,000 more expensive than the highest-end OLED Steam Deck.
Lenovo didn’t officially announce the price hikes or explain the reason behind the increase, though Lenovo is far from the only gaming hardware manufacturer to have pushed up prices in recent weeks. In March, Sony announced that the price of the PS5 would rise from $549.99 to $649.99, a $100 increase. Meanwhile, the PS5 Pro, Sony’s most powerful version of the console, was hit with a $150 hike to $899.99.
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Microsoft last raised the prices of all its Xbox consoles in October 2025, its second increase of the year. Meanwhile, rumours emerged that Nintendo was raising prices on its Switch consoles in February due to the shortage, though the company has so far denied any impact from spiralling memory prices on its financials. Fans of handheld gaming have already acutely felt the impact of shortages. Valve’s Steam Deck OLED only recently started being sold in the US again in March, after being sold out for weeks due to the memory shortage.
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