In what appeared like a response to ongoing tariff tumult, the US Razer web site had quietly pulled its Blade laptops from direct gross sales, together with its new Blade 16 with Nvidia’s 50-series GPUs. Things appeared regular in different areas like Canada. But even after per week of paused gross sales and Reddit posts discussing Blade 16 preorders getting held up in US Customs, nonetheless, Razer by no means responded to The Verge’s inquiries about what’s happening.
Now, some configurations of the 2025 Blade 16 have reappeared for US residents, although not all Blade laptops have returned to Razer’s US on-line retailer.
Before the gross sales pause, there have been nonetheless 2024 Blade 16 fashions accessible, in addition to preorders for the Blade 18. Now, these are nowhere to be seen for US prospects.
Also, the 2025 Blade 16 is just accessible for instant buy with the RTX 5080 GPU. The entry-level RTX 5070 Ti and flagship RTX 5090 configurations are solely listed with “notify me” buttons.
And much more curious: the 5090 config is proscribed to 64GB of RAM and 4TB of storage for $4,899.99, however the assessment spec that Razer despatched us for testing with 32GB / 1TB for $4,499.99 isn’t accessible.
We’ve reached out to Razer to try to get clarification about what’s happening.
