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On Sat, 06 Sep 2025 17:01:56 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> said this thing:

Case in point #2:
The Lenovo Legion Go 2 is releasing at a starting price of $1,100.*
That's almost twice the price of the first original Lenovo Legion Go
handheld PC.

(I know, necroposting... but does this article really deserve an
entirely new thread?)

Anyway, if the original cost wasn't bad enough, Lenovo just raised the
price of the Legion Go 2 to ~$2000 USD.* Which, given the rising costs
of computer hardware, is an understandable change... but it basically
kills the market for this device. They're intended as supplementary
gaming machines, but are being priced at mid-to-high range gaming
desktop prices.

But this may also spell doom for the upcoming Steam Machine PC from
Valve, because it is likely that it will suffer from the same
pressures and costs. And I don't think Valve will get much traction if
they try to sell their device at these prices.





* article: https://kotaku.com/lenovo-legion-go-2-price-ram-pc-gaming-handheld-2000684733


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On Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:37:36 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> said this thing:

On Sat, 06 Sep 2025 17:01:56 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson ><spallshurgenson@gmail.com> said this thing:

Case in point #2:
The Lenovo Legion Go 2 is releasing at a starting price of $1,100.*
That's almost twice the price of the first original Lenovo Legion Go >>handheld PC.

(I know, necroposting... but does this article really deserve an
entirely new thread?)

Anyway, if the original cost wasn't bad enough, Lenovo just raised the
price of the Legion Go 2 to ~$2000 USD.* Which, given the rising costs
of computer hardware, is an understandable change... but it basically
kills the market for this device. They're intended as supplementary
gaming machines, but are being priced at mid-to-high range gaming
desktop prices.

Wow... it's even worse than expected. The announced price for the 2TB
Legion Go 2 will be $2,850.00 USD.* Note that the original price on
release was $1,480, so Lenovo has almost doubled the price in a year.

And the sad thing is that companies like Lenovo will then take the
failure to make any sales as indication that the market for these
devices doesn't exist, and not that they've overpriced themselves out
of an audience.



* report here https://www.techradar.com/computing/gaming-pcs/the-lenovo-legion-go-2-handheld-costs-more-than-two-nvidia-rtx-5080-gpus-and-thats-genuinely-absurd


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On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:50:47 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:37:36 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson ><spallshurgenson@gmail.com> said this thing:

On Sat, 06 Sep 2025 17:01:56 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson >><spallshurgenson@gmail.com> said this thing:

Case in point #2:
The Lenovo Legion Go 2 is releasing at a starting price of $1,100.* >>>That's almost twice the price of the first original Lenovo Legion Go >>>handheld PC.

(I know, necroposting... but does this article really deserve an
entirely new thread?)

Anyway, if the original cost wasn't bad enough, Lenovo just raised the >>price of the Legion Go 2 to ~$2000 USD.* Which, given the rising costs
of computer hardware, is an understandable change... but it basically
kills the market for this device. They're intended as supplementary
gaming machines, but are being priced at mid-to-high range gaming
desktop prices.

Wow... it's even worse than expected. The announced price for the 2TB
Legion Go 2 will be $2,850.00 USD.* Note that the original price on
release was $1,480, so Lenovo has almost doubled the price in a year.

And the sad thing is that companies like Lenovo will then take the
failure to make any sales as indication that the market for these
devices doesn't exist, and not that they've overpriced themselves out
of an audience.

* report here >https://www.techradar.com/computing/gaming-pcs/the-lenovo-legion-go-2-handheld-costs-more-than-two-nvidia-rtx-5080-gpus-and-thats-genuinely-absurd

Getting the paddles out for this thread again! CLEAR!

*(thwump)*

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On 13/04/2026 16:50, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Wow... it's even worse than expected. The announced price for the 2TB
Legion Go 2 will be $2,850.00 USD.* Note that the original price on
release was $1,480, so Lenovo has almost doubled the price in a year.

Who on earth do they think is going to buy one. You can get four top of
the range Steam Decks for that.
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On Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:00:01 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> said this
thing:

On 13/04/2026 16:50, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Wow... it's even worse than expected. The announced price for the 2TB
Legion Go 2 will be $2,850.00 USD.* Note that the original price on
release was $1,480, so Lenovo has almost doubled the price in a year.

Who on earth do they think is going to buy one. You can get four top of
the range Steam Decks for that.

I think they're trying to position themselves as a luxury device.

In fairness, the specs of the Legion Go 2 are noticably better. The
Legion Go 2 has an 8.8" screen running at 144Hz (vs SteamDeck's 7.4" @
90Hz), an 8-core Z2 Extreme (vs 4-core Zen2), 32GB RAM to SteamDeck's
16GB, 2TB SDD vs 1TB, 74WHr battery to 50WHr. The Legion 2 Go is
undeniably the more powerful machine.

But is it worth the price? And does a handheld PC need that sort of performance? (I mean, you're staring down at an 8" screen; you won't
notice a difference between HD and UHD resolutions when the pixels are
already so tiny). I'd say no... especially if you just want the device
to use as a game-machine, and not as a prestige-piece.

I've said it before and now I say it again: I am not the market for
these sorts of machines. I have no desire for playing PC games
on-the-go. As such, I can't see the appeal of these devices and this
may bias me against them. But a lot of people do like them, and I
acknowledge that there probably is a large enough audience that the
platform could flourish.

Nonetheless, reports show that most people who ARE getting them are
mostly using them as supplemental devices rather than PC replacements.
So the idea of charging more for these machines than an actual desktop
or laptop won't fly. Lenovo is killing the market with this overpriced
machine.

IMHO, YMMV and the usual acronyms apply.



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On 14/04/2026 16:26, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Nonetheless, reports show that most people who ARE getting them are
mostly using them as supplemental devices rather than PC replacements.
So the idea of charging more for these machines than an actual desktop
or laptop won't fly. Lenovo is killing the market with this overpriced machine.

Like you I'm not a fan of 'real' gaming on a mobile devices. I do have
my iPad and the are games I find suited to, in particular choose your
own text adventures where the UI is lovely to use and you can just jump
in for twenty or thirty minutes. I did also buy a couple of games
(Invisible Inc. and Sunless Sea) that I liked on the PC but nah just
doesn't work for me.

I agree that with your overall point that I don't really see how this
would work at this price point. If you could get something that met both
your desktop and mobile needs at an ok price then I can see it. I have
even toyed wit the idea of having a Steam Deck for that but as I'm not
into mobile gaming then it's just not a good idea.

£2,500 buys you a decent desktop PC.
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:34:57 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> said this
thing:

On 14/04/2026 16:26, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Like you I'm not a fan of 'real' gaming on a mobile devices. I do have
my iPad and the are games I find suited to, in particular choose your
own text adventures where the UI is lovely to use and you can just jump
in for twenty or thirty minutes. I did also buy a couple of games
(Invisible Inc. and Sunless Sea) that I liked on the PC but nah just
doesn't work for me.

Of course, whether our attitudes are typical or not is hard to
determine. I suspect that the younger generation is more comfortable
playing long-form games on smaller machines.

[Probably because they have younger eyes! Damn the youth
for their excellent vision! ;-)]

But you are right in that sales reports do seem to indicate that --on
average-- people who buy these devices already own desktops or
laptops. This implies (but doesn't prove) that the handheld PCs are
intended to be supplementary devices; something you take on the road
so you can still play Fortnite or Civilization while out of the house,
but then when you go back home it's back to the big-screen.

[Obviously, it is possible that purchasers of handheld PCs
use them as their primary gaming PCs, and -after they get
their SteamDecks-- the desktops/laptops are either
collecting dust or just used for 'boring' stuff. I haven't
seen any studies indicating this either way. I'll admit my
personal bias makes me believe that 'go back to the big
screen' is more likely, but I'll be the first to admit
that's conjecture]

But at least some people are using the handhelds as supplementary
mobile devices... and in general people don't want to pay as much for
secondary devices. Similarly, mobile devices generally sell better
when they aren't expensive. Why? Because mobile devices break a lot
more often than devices sitting on a desk all day... and people don't
want to pay thousands of dollars for something that they may lose or
smash in six months.

TL;DR: I think there's a definite market for handheld PCs... but not
at the price-point Lenovo is pushing. The chase after luxury pricing
is fine, but they need to establish the market first.


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