First it was the Steam Deck then we had the Asus ROG Ally, and now Lenovo is leaping into the fray as the corporate has formally revealed its new handheld gaming system – the Legion Go.
Arguably essentially the most eye-catching facet out of all the things the Lenovo Legion Go has to supply are the removable TrueStrike controllers. Just like the Nintendo Change Pleasure-Cons, they characteristic two joysticks, a directional pad, and quite a lot of face buttons. Pretty normal stuff.
However that’s the place the similarities finish as a result of these TrueStrike controllers are able to a lot extra. In complete, you’ve got 10 – sure, 10 – mappable shoulder buttons: two triggers, two bumpers, 4 within the again (two on every controller), plus an additional pair of inputs on the perimeters.
If that wasn’t sufficient, the suitable controller has a observe pad on the entrance for controlling an on-screen cursor with a mouse wheel on the again for scrolling. On the underside of the controller is an optical “eye”. When positioned contained in the accompanying stand, the “eye” may help the peripheral function a rudimentary gaming mouse.
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Evidently, the Legion TrueStrike controllers on the Legion Go completely blow the Change’s Pleasure-Cons out of the water. It even comes with RGB lighting across the energy button. Not solely that, Lenovo’s {hardware} sports activities “corridor impact joysticks” which means no irritating controller drift like you would possibly expertise on the Change.
Notable options
In fact, there may be extra to the Legion Go in addition to the controllers.
The show is a 8.8-inch Lenovo PureSight gaming touchscreen, in keeping with the corporate. With a side ratio of 16:10, it outputs a Quad HD Plus (2560 x 1600 pixels) decision with a refresh charge of as much as 144Hz. The show is “able to as much as 500 nits [of] brightness”, protecting “97 % [of the] DCI-P3 coloration gamut”. Primarily, the display screen appears unbelievable.
Beneath the hood you’ve got an “AMD Ryzen Z1 Excessive processor” alongside an AMD RDNA graphics card which is the very same kind of {hardware} current on the ROG Ally. It additionally has 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM on board. So in case you have tried out the ROG Ally, you’ll be able to anticipate the same stage of efficiency on the Legion Go.
Storage peaks at 1TB though you’ll be able to develop it by an additional 2TB by way of micro-SD card.
With all this {hardware}, the Legion Go might be fairly energy hungry. Lenovo is equipping its handheld with a 49.2Wh (watt-hour) battery. It helps the corporate’s proprietary Tremendous Fast Cost tech, “permitting the battery to recharge as much as 70 %” in about half-hour.
Different notable options embrace energy bypass mode to “defend the battery from [deterioration]” and a kickstand on the again to prop up the Legion Go.
Availability
Coloration us impressed. Lenovo is getting into the hand held scene weapons ablaze. Neither the Steam Deck or Ally have opted for removable controllers. We’re curious to know if Lenovo plans on releasing the TrueStrike on their very own so we requested. This story might be up to date if we hear again.
The Lenovo Legion Go launches on October 31 with costs beginning £699/€799. That is roughly $875 USD, making it dearer than each the Steam Deck and ROG Ally.
When you’re in search of one thing to play in your newly acquired Legion Go, make sure you take a look at TechRadar’s listing of the very best Steam video games for 2023.