The top class gaming hand held’s worth is anticipated to be round $1,500.
A brand new wave of top class handhelds is at the approach and MSI’s upcoming Claw 8 EX AI+ is main the fee. The corporate published its newest hand held all over a hands-on match at its headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan prior to Computex 2026. The Claw 8 EX AI+ will practice up MSI’s earlier handhelds presented in 2024 that get started at round $800, however is reportedly going to price up to $1,500. It comes out on June 23.
To justify that prime value, the newest MSI hand held is getting a significant efficiency spice up because of the brand new Intel Arc G3 Excessive chip. In keeping with ZDNet Korea, the Claw 8 EX AI+ gives an up to date SSD design that we could house owners simply improve the garage via an M.2 2280 slot. The hand held nonetheless will get as much as 32GB of reminiscence, an 80Wh battery and an eight-inch touchscreen show with a 1,920 x 1,200 answer and a 120Hz refresh charge. Then again, the hands-on match introduced that the Claw 8 EX AI+ could have progressed haptics at the side of higher ergonomic design for its buttons and joysticks.
In keeping with PCGamer, MSI hasn’t landed on a last worth for the Claw 8 EX AI+, however the configuration on show at its match carries that $1,500 worth. That implies shall we see extra inexpensive alternatives with much less reminiscence and garage, or a smaller show. Then again, that worth estimate is not too sudden taking into consideration the continuing disaster round element prices. As for probably less expensive choices, MSI’s Claw 8 EX AI+ will see festival from the Acer Predator Atlas 8 and a hand held from OneXPlayer, either one of which additionally characteristic the Arc G3 Excessive chips.
