EXCLUSIVE: Lenovo is working on a Windows PC gaming handheld called the 'Legion Go'
EXCLUSIVE: Lenovo is working on a Windows PC gaming handheld called the 'Legion Go'
Another Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Ally competitor enters the fray.
Hardware makers making the same mistakes over and over again...
I'll say it louder for the kids in the back, "DON'T BOTHER MAKING CUSTOM GAMING HARDWARE WITHOUT A CUSTOM GAMING OS".
Regardless of how you feel about Windows, it is not fit for purpose. It's the wrong tool for the job.
Well, you know what they say:
When all you have is a hammer everything looks...like....a....uhhhhhh....Window?
When all you have is a Window everything looks like a huge friggin pane
Eh, this and the Ally are cash grabs, I doubt they intend to spend the money needed to support custom software long-term. They'll just hope that Windows updates don't mess it up and if they do, they'll blame Microsoft.
If this form factor is here to stay, and hopefully it is, Microsoft will probably adapt Windows to it (also hopefully). SteamOS is very good though, can manufacturers not just use that?
Microsoft will likely do fuck all and have us all rely on third-party solutions.
I think other manufacturers aren't using SteamOS for 2 main reasons:
1: They get to brag about universal compatibility, even if that's not a huge gap anymore
2: They aren't dependent on a direct competitor for their software
That's cool and all but I got my hopes on the Steam Deck still, simply because Valve cracked the "who needs Windows" nut
I second this. I'm planning to start switching my devices from Windows to Linux in a couple of weeks due to good experience I've had with the Steam Deck
Is running windows os on these devices is a lot of resource overhead?
windows can be tuned to run fairly well, but we're talking lenovo here, and they do love their preinstalled crapware.
These devices are honestly quite fast, the overhead is similar to the overhead on an entry level gaming PC (to be fair, that is still a substantial overhead, but people accept it)
Cool. Now it just needs steam os on it
At least this means that the PC handhelds seem to be lucrative and we can definitely expect a steam deck 2 or better competition.
I'd be glad to see better competition to the Steam Deck but currently they're all very far.
They all run Windows and lack touchpads.
It's got some ground to make up if it's going to try to take on the ROG Ally. Still, competition is exactly what this space needs ATM - can't wait to see where the market is in a few years!
Asus and Lenovo clearly put no thought into how controlling windows desktop with a controller feels worse than pancaking your own testicles. The steam deck trackpads are far from an amazing experience for desktop input but it is at least usable and not the worst thing ever.
No thanks. We don't need more closed and bloated spyware, what we need is more open and privacy respecing OSes like GNU/Linux and devices using it like Steam Deck.