NEW YORK, April 13, 2026, 11:57 EDT
Lenovo’s U.S. site has jacked up the price of its Legion Go 2 handheld with 2TB storage to $2,849.99—a steep climb from the $1,479.99 launch tag seen last September. Over at B&H Photo, the same 2TB Ryzen Z2 Extreme model is still marked $1,849.99, creating a $1,000 gulf between Lenovo’s own web store and a key retailer.
This hits just as PC hardware makers are grappling with a new round of component price hikes. Analysts are flagging sharp contract-price jumps for DRAM—the main memory in PCs—and NAND flash, the storage chips in SSDs, this quarter, with AI servers soaking up supply.
Back in February, Lenovo flagged partners that prices on some client devices were shifting due to the worldwide memory crunch. “No way around it,” Lenovo North America president Ryan McCurdy told CRN, as the company moved to update terms and pricing. CRN
Lenovo’s updated 2TB model lists an AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor, 32GB of LPDDR5x RAM — that’s the low-power variant — and a 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, according to retailer data. Over at Best Buy, the 1TB configuration with the same Ryzen Z2 Extreme shows up at $1,999.99. That points to pricing pressure beyond just Lenovo’s site.
Rival devices are still nowhere near that price point. Over at Microsoft’s Xbox site, the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X is listed at $999.99. Valve’s Steam Deck OLED, offering 1TB of storage, goes for $649. While neither matches Lenovo’s flagship exactly on specs, both highlight just how much Lenovo has stretched pricing for handhelds.
Ranjit Atwal, senior director analyst at Gartner, flagged a sharp pullback in device shipments, calling it the “steepest contraction in device shipments” seen in over ten years. Gartner’s latest forecasts point to DRAM and SSD prices soaring as much as 130% by the end of 2026, a spike likely to drive up PC prices 17% and squeeze demand into higher-end machines. Gartner
On March 31, TrendForce projected conventional DRAM contract prices jumping 58% to 63% quarter-over-quarter in Q2, with NAND flash seen surging 70% to 75% as suppliers redirect output toward servers and enterprise storage. Reuters, citing Samsung, added that DRAM prices could soar more than 50% this quarter, driven by booming AI demand—putting further pressure on consumer hardware manufacturers.
But Lenovo’s new list price might not reflect what most shoppers end up spending. B&H hasn’t moved in line with the official store’s tag, and Gartner flags rising device prices as a factor stretching out replacement cycles—potential trouble for demand, especially if retailers haven’t finished pushing through those higher component costs.
Lenovo rolled out the Legion Go 2 in September, opening with a $1,099.99 base price. Models with the Ryzen Z2 Extreme chip came in at $1,349.99 for the 1TB option and $1,479.99 for 2TB. Now, the highest-end version in the U.S. store is selling for nearly twice what it cost at launch.
