What Happened To Acer’s Giant Nitro Blaze 11 Gaming Handheld?

I held this beast a twelvemonth ago, and we haven’t heard a peep from Acer since.

Acer made a large scatter astatine CES 2025 pinch nan announcement of its surfboard-sized Nitro Blaze 11 gaming handheld, but its targeted second-quarter merchandise came and went agelong ago. There's been nary connection of nan chunky 11-inch Blaze aliases its smaller siblings. I was initially hyped capable to effort specified an oversized handheld that I turned Asus' gaming tablet into one.

So erstwhile I met pinch Acer reps to spell complete its caller offerings for CES 2026, I asked astir this absence.

Lisa Emard of Acer America Corporation told The Verge, "When we announced those products it was conscionable up of nan tariffs situation. We coiled up conscionable focusing connected our halfway products, connected laptop …

Read nan afloat communicative astatine The Verge.