Lenovo defends Legion Go 2's high price, says enthusiasts will invest regardless

[Redaktion]

The Lenovo Legion Go 2 starts at $1,100 and goes up to $1,350 for the Z2 Extreme variant. While this price tag is entering gaming laptop territory, Lenovo feels that it is justified considering the high-performance parts it houses.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-defends-Legion-Go-2-s-high-price-says-enthusiasts-will-invest-regardless.1109010.0.html

[The Werewolf]

You know you're in trouble when your CEO is telling his customers what they should be willing to pay for something, because that's literally the opposite of how capitalism should work.

[JollyRoger87]

Lenovo boutta learn a hard lesson... This gonna be the 3DS all over again

[justavisitor]

Typical Lenovo thinking they're Apple lol

That crap doesn't even have the latest Wi-Fi to justify that pricetag!

Wi-Fi 7 nowadays is essential for future-proofing and reduces congestion from home networking, not to mention fast local wireless transfers between Wi-Fi 7-equipped devices.

However, thanks to 'OneXPlayer X1 Air' which says to Lenovo.. Hello little bastardo!

[Wesley]

Well this is like saying why not buy aya neo 3 , they will buy it anyway and with that device you even have custom controllers

[Wesley]

Id go ayaneo3 oled no vrr with more ram, full size 2280 nvme , upgradable wifi, oculink dual usb 4, ok less screen but heck i can adleadt make a playstation layout instead the crap xbox layout

[monologue]

full size 2280 nvme

From what I understand, it does appear to have a slot which can accept 2280 drives, it's just that the installed SSD drive is 2242.

Regarding the price tag, it still wouldn't sell well even if it were cheap. Enthusiasts often forget that for the average buyer the windows experience is terrible. So perhaps they went about it the right way going after the premium market, financially speaking.

If we look at the sales data of all the 1st gen windows handhelds (Rog ally, MSI claw, legion go), they all got outsold by the steam deck which itself got outsold by the switch.

I also do feel the blame is a little misplaced here. AMD never build their serious APUs for the pc market. In the next 2 years they will apparently be producing a SoC for Sony's future upcoming portable handheld device and that will be 3x-4x faster than the deck for ~$500. So you can pretty much tell which clients they value who they don't (consumer pc market), when looking at the performance to price ratio of that.

AMD treat the Z series and pc handhelds in general as just a way to sell off badly binned and disabled laptop chips they still haven't managed to sell because they overpriced them and refused to sell any lower leading to such excess inventory.