Ayaneo is suspending preorders for its $1,999 Subsequent 2 gaming handheld as a result of skyrocketing value of digital storage. In a put up on Monday, Ayaneo says the general value to construct its Home windows handheld now almost doubles the value it initially set, making it “unsustainable” to proceed promoting.
“Even earlier than the launch of NEXT 2, storage costs had already been rising for a number of months,” Ayaneo writes. “At the moment, we believed the value is perhaps approaching its peak. Even when it meant making little to no revenue—or perhaps a slight loss—we nonetheless determined to maneuver ahead with the launch. Nonetheless, what we didn’t anticipate was that storage costs wouldn’t solely proceed to rise however would improve much more quickly.”
Ayaneo says it would fulfill present preorders for the Subsequent 2, which opened simply weeks in the past on February tenth. The gadget includes a 9.06-inch OLED show, together with a base Ryzen AI Max 385 processor, built-in Radeon 8050S graphics, 32GB of reminiscence, and 1TB of SSD storage. Ayaneo notes that it’s solely “quickly suspending” preorders, and that it could contemplate resuming gross sales if “storage costs return to extra cheap ranges sooner or later.”
