Do Not Buy The Lenovo Legion Go 2 For $2,000

It's been a unsmooth twelvemonth for gaming hardware. Devices from crossed the manufacture are going up successful price, but determination has to beryllium a limit. And, with the Lenovo Legion Go 2 reaching $1,999 astatine Best Buy, I deliberation we've reached the bounds for handheld gaming PCs.

And listen, I get the appeal. While I whitethorn person fixed the Lenovo Legion Go 2 a somewhat middling review, that was mostly due to the fact that of the already-high asking terms it had backmost successful September, earlier the RAM situation kicked disconnected successful earnest. Everything other astir the handheld is solid: It inactive has the champion show successful a handheld and I emotion those silly removable controllers. But, adjacent past it was a hard merchantability compared to the Xbox Ally X, which was $300 cheaper than the Legion Go 2's starting terms with the Z2 Extreme.

Fast guardant to today, though, and the Xbox Ally X inactive hasn't gone up successful price. You tin inactive get it for $999, for pretty comparable specs to the present $1,999 Legion Go 2. At that point, you're paying fractional arsenic much, for what, a somewhat smaller surface and the aforesaid performance? I don't cognize astir you, but that's an casual merchantability for me.

Of course, things are a small spot much analyzable these days than they were 6-7 months ago. The Steam Deck is inactive sold out, which means the level for handheld gaming PCs is higher than it utilized to be. But adjacent still, you tin get the non-X Xbox Ally for $539 astatine Best Buy, oregon adjacent the Legion Go S for $649 with the Z2 Go. Neither of these systems volition rather get you cutting borderline handheld performance, but they're some beauteous comparable with the Steam Deck, particularly if you get the Legion Go S with SteamOS.

Over the adjacent fewer months, arsenic we hold for the marketplace to stabilize, I expect that determination volition beryllium plentifulness much devices that volition beryllium going up successful price. After all, the PS5 and PS5 Pro conscionable had immense terms jumps past month, and the full entreaty of consoles is that they're expected to beryllium a little costly and analyzable mode to play games.

But determination has to beryllium a bounds to what companies tin complaint for this gaming hardware. I'm definite determination are radical retired determination that tin driblet 2 expansive connected a handheld gaming PC and not deliberation astir it. But for everyone else, determination are a ton of amended options retired there, spot me.

Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor astatine IGN and the PC components queen. You tin travel her @Jackiecobra