So you want to buy a gaming handheld PC

Gaming 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.

But that’s not going to stop you. You’ve decided now’s the time to buy one, before the next shoe drops. I won’t talk you out of it! I genuinely don’t know when or if prices might come back down.