Raspberry Pi's official 7″ touchscreen display goes on sale today for $60
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has launched an all-new piece of hardware today — the official Raspberry Pi touchscreen display is now on sale for $60 (£48 GBP) online, and through a handful of brick-and-mortar retailers.
Context & Ripple Effects
With today's $60 (£48) launch of its official 7-inch touchscreen, the Raspberry Pi Foundation extends beyond single-board computers into first-party peripherals, selling online and through a handful of brick-and-mortar retailers. It sets the template for a product line the Foundation would keep returning to: the Pi 4 era brought faster boards, while the Raspberry Pi 400 folded the computer itself into a $70 keyboard five years later.
The price point is the notable part. When the Foundation finally refreshed the screen in 2024, the Touch Display 2 launched at the same $60, meaning the entry cost for an official Pi display held flat across nearly a decade of board upgrades.
First-order effects
- Buyers get an officially supported display that pairs with the current board lineup, ending reliance on third-party screens for touchscreen projects.
- The Foundation gains a second hardware revenue line beyond computers, distributed through both online channels and physical retailers.
Second-order effects
- Accessory makers building cases and stands now have a fixed, official screen form factor to design around rather than a fragmented market of generic panels.
- The bundled-peripheral playbook proved repeatable: the Pi 400 applied the same 'official, affordable, ready-to-use' logic by integrating the computer into the keyboard itself.
Third-order effects
- If the flat-price pattern holds — the successor display still $60 in 2024 — first-party peripherals become a stabilizing anchor on total system cost even as board performance climbs with generations like the Pi 5.
The trend: Raspberry Pi is building a first-party peripheral ecosystem around its boards, holding accessory prices flat while each computer generation gets faster.