Gaming handheld PC buying guide: Navigating high prices and market shortages
By
Sean Hollister
Summary
A buying guide for gaming handheld PCs that acknowledges the current market is plagued by high prices due to AI-fueled memory chip shortages, inflation, tariffs, and an oil crisis. Rather than discouraging purchases, the article aims to help readers navigate the expensive "new normal" and make informed buying decisions in a challenging market.
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· 4 pulledGaming handhelds are amazing. They make it so much easier to fit all kinds of games into my day.
Sadly, they're less affordable than they've ever been — due to an unprecedented, AI-fueled shortage of memory chips, an unforced oil crisis, rampant inflation, fallout from tariffs, and more.
I won't talk you out of it! I genuinely don't know when or if prices might come back down.
So instead of telling you to hold off, I'll try to help you navigate this 'new normal' I keep hearing so much about.
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