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

By Liam Dawe - 25 Apr 2025 at 9:54 am UTC
Last updated: 25 Apr 2025 at 10:00 am UTC

Best Buy have recently increased the price they're listing for the two upcoming Lenovo - Legion Go S models with Valve's SteamOS. They seem to have taken down pre-orders too, with it now just being listed as "Coming Soon".

The new prices could be pretty off-putting. Here's the new USA pricing (credit to cdubbsworld on Reddit):

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.

Why? The most probable reason are the mess of tariffs going on right now (thanks Trump). Prices of lots of things have been all over the place due to it. This isn't even the first price increase. 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.

Both models are listed as releasing on May 25th.

At this point, it might just be better to stick with the tried and tested Steam Deck directly from Valve. For the price, it's not like Lenovo are giving you much more than what Valve already do with the Steam Deck OLED top model being $649.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Hardware, Lenovo, Misc, SteamOS, Upcoming

4 Likes

About the author - Liam Dawe

I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly checked on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly. You can also follow my personal adventures on Bluesky.
See more from me

Some you may have missed, popular articles from the last month:

Inspired by Slavic folklore Deathless. Tales of Old Rus improves text sizing on Steam Deck

A public alpha of the 'semi-immutable' Manjaro Summit Linux is now available

Civilization VII 1.2 is out with multiplayer teams, the one more turn game mode, new resources and lots more

Steam Desktop and Steam Deck stable update released with various fixes, plus tweaks to the download UI

You can also find comments for this article on social media: Mastodon

All posts need to follow our rules. For users logged in: please hit the Report Flag icon on any post that breaks the rules or contains illegal / harmful content. Guest readers can email us for any issues.

6 comments

ShabbyX 8 hours ago

Did the windows version also get a similar price bump?

0 Likes

Eike 8 hours ago

Supporter Plus

Did the UK version also get a similar price bump?

0 Likes

Liam Dawe 7 hours ago

Admin

The only place in the UK I found to be listing the SteamOS version is Currys, and they only list the Z2 Go version in two different specs. Can't find any historic pricing on them.

1 Likes

CatKiller 7 hours ago

Supporter Plus

Did the windows version also get a similar price bump?

The Windows version is showing as the same price as the SteamOS version, but with a claimed discount of $130 to get it there on the Z2 Go version (ie, they claim that it should be $730 normally). For the Z1 Extreme version, the Windows one is $900 and the SteamOS one is $830.

1 Likes

CatKiller 7 hours ago

Supporter Plus

FWIW, I suspect that the Windows versions aren't selling at all well, so the retailers are trying to dump inventory of those by making the Windows versions seem more attractive to customers than waiting for the SteamOS version. Whether the SteamOS version actually appears, and actually gets sold, and at what price, we'll have to wait and see.

0 Likes

Mohandevir 4 hours ago

1100$CAN, here. 689$CAN for the 512gb OLED Steam Deck and 819$CAN for the 1tb model.

I will stick with my LCD Steam Deck. If I had to make a move, I'd pick the 512gb OLED Steam Deck and swap drives with the 1tb I already have in my LCD.

All in all, I'll wait for the Steam Deck 2.

3 Likes

While you're here, please consider supporting GamingOnLinux on:

Reward Tiers: Patreon. Plain Donations:

PayPal.

This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!

You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!