… Microsoft has increased the prices of its Surface devices across the board, continuing the unfortunate trend of pricing inflation for tech products, even older ones. In each case, the price seems to have increased by $100 or more -- but not all retailers seem to have received the message. …
… Its April update claims that CPU prices have actually decreased while SSD prices have gone higher. Lenovo Legion Go prices have increased, too. Still, quoting reviewers one price and consumers another simply smells bad. …
… That's a $650 increase in less than six months, as VideoCardz.com notes though that particular model is currently out of stock . This got me curious, so I used the Internet Archive to compare the current prices of all Legion Go S configs on Best Buy to their original launch prices. …
… "Steam Deck is back in stock, with a price increase for both models due to rising memory and storage costs." We've seen similar increases for other hardware like the Lenovo Legion Go series, which now costs almost a thousand US dollars for the "affordable" Go S model that ships with SteamOS instead… …
… The news on our side keeps dropping ever-worsening details on memory shortages, price increases, and product delays. …
… The culprit is, presumably, the same memory and storage production issues that are affecting consumer-level components and finished devices, like the Microsoft Surface computers that recently got a gigantic price increase, or game consoles that have gotten more expensive years after introduction, a… …
… Then the "low" part of that equation started going away, culminating in a staggering 50 percent price increase in October 2025. …
… Even though RAM prices dipped for a bit, it was a false alarm... and now there are more signs that the shortage won't abate for a while. …
… Back in October, Microsoft introduced major changes and a staggering 50% price increase for Xbox Game Pass. …
… Tom Mainelli, VP of Device & Consumer Research at IDC, agrees that price increases are slowing. …