{"id":380500,"date":"2026-04-03T20:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/380500\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:16:08","slug":"lenovo-legion-go-2-suddenly-costs-650-more-as-ramageddon-lays-waste-to-gaming-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/380500\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo Legion Go 2 suddenly costs $650 more as RAMageddon lays waste to gaming hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">And yes, that means Lenovo\u2019s flagship may now cost twice as much as a <a href=\"https:\/\/bestbuy.7tiv.net\/c\/482924\/614286\/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fproduct%2Frog-xbox-ally-x-7-fhd-120hz-gaming-handheld-3-month-xbox-game-pass-premium-amd-ryzen-ai-z2-extreme-24gb-ram-1tb-ssd-windows%2FJJGHGPLVHW\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$999 Microsoft\/Asus Xbox Ally X<\/a> with the same AMD chip, as much as a far more powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/791460\/gpd-win-5-corded-handhelds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GPD Win 5 with AMD Strix Halo<\/a> cost last year. But the way things are going, it\u2019s probably only a matter of time till Microsoft\u2019s handheld Xbox hikes its price too. (For now, Asus rep Anthony Spence tells me there\u2019s \u201cno price increase on the horizon, so far as I can tell,\u201d at least in the US.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The Legion Go 2 has other things going for it besides the chip, including detachable controllers and a stellar screen, but $2K? Get outta here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/880812\/ramageddon-ram-shortage-memory-crisis-price-2026-phones-laptops\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RAMageddon is coming<\/a> for everything you care about, and gaming hardware in particular has taken a hit. Sony just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/902224\/sony-ps5-playstation-price-hike\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hiked the price the PS5<\/a> by $100 to $150, and speaking of Strix Halo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/899357\/ayaneo-windows-gaming-handheld-sustainable-ram\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ayaneo has canceled<\/a> its $1,999-and-up Next 2 because storage prices made it \u201cunsustainable.\u201d (GPD has hiked its Strix Halo handheld prices some, but still sells the Win 5 with 32GB of RAM, 2TB storage and an AI Max Plus 395 chip <a href=\"https:\/\/gpdstore.net\/product\/gpd-win-5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for $2,500<\/a>, for now.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And yes, that means Lenovo\u2019s flagship may now cost twice as much as a $999 Microsoft\/Asus Xbox Ally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[203,213,61,60,43,4411,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-380500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-gaming","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pc-gaming","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}