Taking part in full-featured PC video games within the palm of your hand has lengthy been a dream for PC avid gamers. Sure, there have been costly specialty machines that might do it, or you can attempt streaming to a handheld gadget through a cloud gaming service like GeForce Now, but it surely wasn’t a mainstream, simple to make use of answer.
Learn extra: Lenovo’s Legion Go Is a Gaming Laptop in Handheld Form
Then in February 2022, Valve (proprietor of the favored Steam PC gaming storefront) launched the Steam Deck. It was massive, clunky, and restricted in what video games it might run simply, but it surely was a approach to play most, if not all, Steam video games on a 7-inch display. Gamers rapidly devised methods to play video games from different recreation launchers, like Xbox Recreation Go and the Epic Recreation Retailer, and the Steam Deck turned a cult hit and normally offered out for its first a number of months of existence.
Since then, comparable units have been teased and leaked, and the Asus Ally made a splash by taking the Steam Deck appear and feel, making it sleeker and extra refined, and working Home windows 11, quite than Valve’s proprietary SteamOS. It additionally had a nicer display and extra highly effective CPU/GPU combo.
Now it’s Lenovo’s flip, and the brand new Legion Go goes one step additional, combining options from all our favourite handhelds. It has one of many trackpads from the Steam Deck (however not two), it runs Home windows 11, just like the Asus Ally, and it has removable controllers, just like the Nintendo Change. In my transient hands-on time with the system, it actually felt like a conglomeration of options from a number of completely different units.
I’m personally most excited in regards to the bigger 8-inch 144Hz display with the next 2560×1600 decision – the Steam Deck is simply 1,280×800 and locked to 60Hz.
Above is a spec comparability between the Legion Go and the Steam Deck, and you’ll learn our full hands-on coverage of the Legion Go here, and see more photos of the device in action here.
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