By Isaiah Williams
Publication Date: 2026-04-13 15:24:00
- Lenovo has increased 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 hasn’t stated why there’s been a price increase, but recent trends suggest the memory crisis is related
There’s been a gradual calm to the currently raging storm that is the memory crisis and its impact on PC hardware, specifically with RAM kits slowly falling 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 now costs $2,850, listed on Lenovo’s online store, a significant price hike from the original $1,480 retail price. This comes shortly after the cost 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 costly than a single RTX 5090, the most powerful desktop GPU currently available.
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To say that the pricing here for handheld gaming devices is absurd would be an understatement. While the RAM crisis and unstable PC hardware market are likely to blame in this case, it’s hard for any consumer to justify paying rent money for a device that isn’t even the best in its own league.
There are handhelds such as the GPD…
