Lenovo - Legion Go S with Valve's SteamOS gets a price increase at Best Buy

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz⁩ to ⁨steamdeck@sopuli.xyz⁩

AMD Ryzen Z2 Go edition is now $599.99 before it was $549.99.

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme edition is now $829.99 before it was $749.99.

Originally, Lenovo said they expected it to launch for $499.99 for the Z2 Go edition — $100 is quite a big bump now from their original plan.

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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I can think of one big reason why …

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- TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Funnily, my mind first made me consider pressure by Microsoft to raise the steam version cost to make it a less attractive proposition compared to the windows version, before realizing this was a tariff reaction. Goes to show how I imagine Microsoft’s powers and intentions in my mind :)
  
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Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
As if it wasn’t overpriced enough before…

Valve really needs to find better partners…

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cron@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
A weaker dollar is also a likely reason that is not mentioned in the article.

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