I have a bun in the oven to see some newhandheld play PCsthis twelvemonth at CES , but it looks like something even more exciting is in store . AMD and Lenovo are hosting an event during the week of the show , and it ’ll have two special guest in attending : Valve ’s Pierre - Loup Griffais and Microsoft ’s Jason Ronald .
I ’ll be wait on the consequence on January 7 , about which Sean Hollister over atThe Vergeinitially shared out the details . There are a couple of reasons why this event could be significant . First , Valve . Since the launching of theAsus ROG Ally , there have been a handful of these type of events featuring spokespeople from AMD , Microsoft , and the company reach a hand-held — Lenovo or Asus . Valve has n’t ever been in attending , and considering Valve makes the Linux - basedSteam Deck , it would be odd for the company to have a presence .
Like most Valve employee , Pierre - Loup Griffais wears a lot of hats , but he ’s been focused on the Steam Deck for a while . In fact , he ’s one of the people I mouth to about the origins ofProton in the Steam Deck . The Lenovo Legion Go is a Windows - based handheld , so the fact that Griffais will be in attendance order quite a lot .
That brings us to the second interesting detail . A couple of weeks ago , Valve updated its branding guideline with a handful of logotype that say “ power by SteamOS . ” Alongside this , Even Blassleaked various imagesof a black Lenovo handheld with a button evince the Steam logotype . Valve has been clear that it ’s work to bring SteamOS to other hand-held devices , and this convolution of different factors paints a moderately decipherable movie of what ’s come .
It ’s not confirm , but it ’s just about as close to a confirmation as we ’re going to get before January 7 .
I ’d stop short of calling this theSteam Deck 2 , however . Valve suppose it’sworking on a Steam Deck 2 , and it ’ll make one whenever there ’s a giving upgrade in performance available . There are still ground to get worked up about this handheld , though . The Lenovo Legion Go uses the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme , which is more powerful than the chip inside of both the Steam Deck and the Steam Deck OLED . In increase , AMD confirmed that itsnext - gen Ryzen Z2 Extremewill arrive early on next year .
It ’s out of the question to say decent now what this mystery handheld will be pack , but either way , it ’ll be more muscular than the Steam Deck . tally on top of that the lightweight carrying into action of SteamOS , and the rightful genius of Proton , and we might have a very compelling handheld .
gratefully , it ’s just a few short weeks before we acknowledge for sure . I ’ll be at the event , and Lenovo is promising an opportunity to “ play with the late Lenovo Legion Go lineup . ” you’re able to bet I ’ll be shoulder my way through the crowd to see whatever gadget is there in person .
