{"id":507013,"date":"2026-06-19T00:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/507013\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T00:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:25:10","slug":"msis-1800-gaming-handheld-will-likely-get-more-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/507013\/","title":{"rendered":"MSI&#8217;s $1,800 Gaming Handheld Will Likely Get More Expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/349992\/msi-claw-8-ex-ai-price-leaks-usd-1-800-intel-arc-g3-extreme-gaming-handheld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MSI online store listing recently revealed<\/a> the pricing on the new Intel Arc G3 Extreme-powered Claw 8 EX AI+, which will apparently retail at a whopping $1,799.99, but, in a recent <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/frvr.com\/blog\/it-will-be-a-tough-year-for-us-and-the-gamers-as-msi-claw-8-ex-ai-launches-for-1800-msi-explains-its-tried-every-approach-to-reduce-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with FRVR, MSI product marketing lead, Andy Chu, explained that things are likely to get worse as the ongoing AI-driven DRAM and component shortage worsens. Chu, who said that even he, as an insider, is &#8220;unsure of where the market will go,&#8221; also says that &#8220;there&#8217;s much room for another price hike, at least from my own observation.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>According to the executive, handheld sales are stable, and MSI is &#8220;confident with the new handheld, not just the new platform,&#8221; referring to Intel&#8217;s new handheld-specific G3 CPUs. He also championed the idea of releasing handhelds with expanded capabilities, stating that &#8220;it&#8217;s good timing to take a look at what kind of true potential or the capability of this new handheld can provide us.&#8221; His argument appears to be that, since handheld prices are high, it stands to reason that they should be more performant and more capable\u2014to his credit, this is a topic that has been discussed online in social media posts and YouTube videos asking whether something like a Lenovo Legion Go or Steam Deck can be used as a desktop PC with an external monitor and a dock, for example.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/img\/DJwHRS5LQO2PR2TJ.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-width=\"720\" data-height=\"960\" data-fancybox=\"g350101\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DJwHRS5LQO2PR2TJ_thm.jpg\" width=\"98\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An MSI online store listing recently revealed the pricing on the new Intel Arc G3 Extreme-powered Claw 8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-507013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507013","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=507013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}