Lenovo’s new video games console appears to be like like a Nintendo Change rival within the making By Joseph Foley printed 18 August 23 (And a challenger to the Steam Deck).

After we first heard that Lenovo was engaged on a handheld Home windows-running gaming PC, our first thought was that it goals to compete with Valve’s Steam Deck. However we have simply seen what are reportedly the primary pictures of the Lenovo Legion Go, and it appears to be like like Lenovo may also have the Nintendo Change in its sights.

The hand held PC appears to be like prefer it combines parts of each the Steam Deck and the Change. May that be sufficient to assist it discover a house within the gaming market (see our choose of the most effective video games consoles for an summary of the market for the time being).

The obvious pictures of the hand-held Legion Go had been reported by Home windows Report this week. It appears to be like not in contrast to the Steam Deck or the Asus ROG Ally, but it surely additionally has detachable controllers that look very very like the Nintendo Change’s Pleasure-Cons and a pop-out kickstand like that on the Change OLED.

Home windows Report says the Legion Go has an eight-inch display screen – probably a touchscreen – whereas the controllers appear to mix the idea of the Change’s Pleasure-Cons with the contoured design of the Steam Deck. To that, they seem so as to add a contact pad on the suitable controller – that is maybe a wierd placement however a touchpad is one thing of a should for Home windows gaming. Nevertheless, the again of the suitable controller is claimed to function a wheel.

Curiously, the design of the Lenovo Legion Go appears to be like pretty chunky, diverging from ASUS’s method of slimming issues down with the ROG Ally. That would imply it homes a much bigger battery, which is one thing that shall be welcome amongst many Home windows avid gamers. Based on Home windows Report, the hand-held gadget will run Home windows 11 and use AMD Phoenix processors.

We have seen a glimpse of handhelds from Lenovo prior to now, however the LaVie Mini revealed at CES 2021 appears to have disappeared and the Android-based Legion Play hasn’t made it to market both. We’ll have to attend to see if the Legion Go makes it additional. For now, there isn’t any launch date or pricing from Lenovo.