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PayPalIs this the end of the PC gaming handheld dream? With shortages everywhere, we're now seeing the Lenovo Legion Go S price skyrocket. With the Steam Deck out of stock pretty much everywhere, and the prices of other handhelds much higher anyway - the AIpocalypse continues to claim victims as AI data centres buy up everything.
The latest victim appears to be the Lenovo Legion Go S, which has seen it's price pretty much double. When it launched it was around $829.99 for the SteamOS version with the Z1 Extreme processor with 32GB RAM and a 1TB SSD. Now? It's listed on Best Buy for an absolutely eye-watering $1,579.99. The official Lenovo website also now doesn't list it at all, Lenovo simply say "Sorry, Legion Go S is Temporarily unavailable on Lenovo.com".
What about the lower-end models of the Legion Go S? The Z2 Go with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD was launched at $599.99 but now it's $989.99 on Best Buy.
You would have to be slightly mad to be buying these handhelds at those prices.
It does beg the question - will Lenovo even bother to launch the Legion Go 2 with SteamOS still in June like they previously announced? I imagine this may put quite a dent in their plans.
My somewhat recent purchase of the older Legion Go 1 for a cheap second-hand like-new deal is certainly paying off now. Sticking Bazzite on that has been great overall.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Liam Dawe 5 hours ago
I cannot wait for the AI bubble to burst already, it has done too much damage.
I wonder if the asus devices will go up in price at all too; if they do then we can probably kiss the old steam deck prices goodbye for the near term.
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At this point I think the AI stuff, while a valid partial reason, is more being used as an excuse to pump up the price of everything. Oil probably plays a role in this as well, but we all know even if there is a real reason for price hikes, the hikes themself will likely be higher than what the market shifts would suggest.
I would love to see more people simply say "no" to these new prices and not buy. Not a full-on boycott per se, but to at least send a message. The consumer really does have a lot of power here and it is such a shame that so many people will hold thier nose and spend.
GustyGhost 1 hour ago
Quoting: Liam DaweOnce the AI bubble pops that is.I wish I had your optimism. My gut tells me that this has become a permanent fixture of the tech landscape.
Caldathras 48 minutes ago
Quoting: GustyGhostCould be. Resources are becoming scarce ... and not just because of the current LLM obsession. The tech rollercoaster may have no choice but to slow down -- just to stretch out those remaining resources.Quoting: Liam DaweOnce the AI bubble pops that is.I wish I had your optimism. My gut tells me that this has become a permanent fixture of the tech landscape.
The "AI" bubble may just be the excuse.
Last edited by Caldathras on 21 Apr 2026 at 6:05 pm UTC
ElamanOpiskelija 47 minutes ago
Quoting: eggroleWhile the AI induced price hikes are annoying, I think it is going to be even worse in the long run. Back before Covid it seemed like corpos had a fear that if they increased prices customers might stop purchasing. But the price hikes of the Covid era taught them people were willing to absorb a lot higher prices. Over the last few years of "new normal" those "temporary" price hikes never really came back down.This is so on point. My GPU from second half 2025, I have bought cheaper than my GPU from 2020, and it's more or less the same category, more or less double the performance. The crypto mining fever also felt like it would last forever. Most places were out of stock for GPUs for a long time, prices were IMO higher, in the end both shortages and the new price level became a standard.
At this point I think the AI stuff, while a valid partial reason, is more being used as an excuse to pump up the price of everything. Oil probably plays a role in this as well, but we all know even if there is a real reason for price hikes, the hikes themself will likely be higher than what the market shifts would suggest.
I would love to see more people simply say "no" to these new prices and not buy. Not a full-on boycott per se, but to at least send a message. The consumer really does have a lot of power here and it is such a shame that so many people will hold thier nose and spend.
By the way, the crypto bro letting you know how many watts he's burning, or the LLM bro how many tokens he's burning through, basically same $h1te.
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