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The premium gaming handheld’s value is expected to beryllium astir $1,500.
A caller activity of premium handhelds is connected nan measurement and MSI's upcoming Claw 8 EX AI+ is starring nan charge. The institution revealed its latest handheld during a hands-on arena astatine its office successful Taipei, Taiwan earlier Computex 2026. The Claw 8 EX AI+ will travel up MSI's erstwhile handhelds introduced successful 2024 that commencement astatine astir $800, but is reportedly going to costs arsenic overmuch as $1,500. It comes retired connected June 23.
To warrant that precocious cost, nan latest MSI handheld is getting a awesome capacity boost acknowledgment to nan new Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip. According to ZDNet Korea, nan Claw 8 EX AI+ offers an updated SSD creation that lets owners easy upgrade nan retention done an M.2 2280 slot. The handheld still gets up to 32GB of memory, an 80Wh artillery and an eight-inch touchscreen show pinch a 1,920 x 1,200 solution and a 120Hz refresh rate. However, nan hands-on arena announced that nan Claw 8 EX AI+ will person improved haptics on pinch amended ergonomic creation for its buttons and joysticks.
According to PCGamer, MSI hasn't landed connected a last value for nan Claw 8 EX AI+, but nan configuration connected show astatine its arena carries that $1,500 price. That intends we could spot much affordable choices pinch little representation and storage, aliases a smaller display. However, that value estimate isn't excessively astonishing considering nan ongoing crisis astir constituent costs. As for perchance cheaper alternatives, MSI's Claw 8 EX AI+ will spot title from nan Acer Predator Atlas 8 and a handheld from OneXPlayer, some of which besides characteristic nan Arc G3 Extreme chips.
