{"id":1608026,"date":"2026-06-16T07:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/RYYsgfqTFXepQCeNL4zxp6"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:55:05","slug":"msi-has-listed-the-official-pre-order-price-of-its-new-claw-gaming-handheld-and-i-think-youre-going-to-want-to-sit-yourself-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/msi-has-listed-the-official-pre-order-price-of-its-new-claw-gaming-handheld-and-i-think-youre-going-to-want-to-sit-yourself-down\/","title":{"rendered":"MSI has listed the official pre-order price of its new Claw gaming handheld and I think you’re going to want to sit yourself down"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m very intrigued by the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+. For one, I enjoyed my time with the previous iteration, the MSI Claw 8 AI+ A2VM<\/a>. For a second, it’s got Intel’s new Arc G3 Extreme<\/a> processor nestled inside. And for a third, our Dave got his hands on one<\/a> at Computex, and said it “feels like the standard all new handheld gaming PCs will be judged by.”<\/p>\n

Exciting stuff. Except MSI has now listed its new mega handheld for pre-order, at the low low price of… $1,799<\/a>? Holy moly, that’s an expensive slice of portable gaming hardware (via Wccftech<\/a>).<\/p>\n

To be quite honest, it’s not an entirely surprising figure. Earlier leaks indicated the MSRP would be well north of $1,500, and a 32 GB\/1 TB handheld with a brand spanking new (and presumably very performant, given my testing of the Arc B390<\/a>) Panther Lake-based chip was always going to make for a pricey machine.<\/p>\n

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