Best Buy now lists Lenovo Legion Go 2 at 48% above launch price
Lenovo launched the Legion Go 2 in the US at $1,349.99 for the Ryzen Z2 Extreme, 32GB, 1TB version. Best Buy is now showing the same handheld at $1,999.99 , while the listing is also marked Unavailable . That is a $650 jump , or about 48% above its official launch price .
That new number looks even worse next to ASUS’s ROG Xbox Ally X. Best Buy currently lists the Ally X at $999.99 , which puts Lenovo’s new Best Buy price at almost exactly 2x higher . ASUS also lists the Ally X with AMD’s Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme , while the Legion Go 2 listing uses Ryzen Z2 Extreme , so Lenovo is now asking twice as much for a handheld in the same Z2 Extreme product tier.
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That makes the Legion Go 2 much harder to justify. At launch, it was already priced above many Windows handhelds. At $1,999.99 , it moves into the range of smaller boutique handheld brands, in fact, this is the price of AMD Strix Halo-based handhelds, which on their own are no longer available at such prices due to the same reasons.
The hardware still reads well on paper. Lenovo’s model has an 8.8-inch 144Hz 2K OLED panel , 32GB RAM , and 1TB storage . But price is only one part of the problem. Legion Space and the broader Windows handheld experience have already been criticized for slow responses and awkward control flow on this device class, which adds more pressure when Lenovo is charging this much.
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This generation of AMD-based gaming handhelds is starting to look like a dead end. We still have not heard anything concrete about Intel’s Arc G3 series for handhelds , despite repeated claims that those chips are due this quarter. If Intel can deliver handhelds under $1,000 with a newer GPU architecture, that may already be enough to stand out. Current AMD handhelds still rely on RDNA 2, RDNA 3, or RDNA 3.5, with no RDNA 4 option anywhere in sight (or plans).
And by the way, if for some reason you still want Lenovo Legion handled, check our prior post about how well their systems are supported. Definitely worth the $2000 premium!
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