Overview
- Best Buy listings Friday showed Lenovo’s Legion Go 2 at $1,999.99 for the Ryzen Z2 Extreme model with 32GB RAM and 1TB storage, with a $1,499 tag appearing on the lower Z2 configuration.
- PCWorld’s price check found multiple Legion Go S variants now $50 to $150 higher, and Lenovo’s own product pages list some handhelds and a gaming tablet as “Available Soon,” signaling tight supply.
- Asus’s ROG Xbox Ally X with the same AMD Z2 Extreme chip still costs $999 at Best Buy, and an Asus representative told The Verge there is no U.S. price increase on the horizon.
- Ayaneo paused sales of its high-end Next II and warned of hikes on other models due to rising NAND flash costs, while Retroid temporarily discontinued the Pocket G2 and raised the Pocket Classic to $150.
- Analysts tie the surge to DRAM and NAND shortages as suppliers prioritize AI, and TrendForce projects another spike in the second half of 2026 that could lift DRAM by about 60% and NAND by about 75%.