Saturday, December 14th 2024
Lenovo Legion Go 2 Leaked with OLED Display and AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme SoC
At this point, it's basically taken for granted that Lenovo will be launching its cut-down Legion Go S gaming handheld at CES 2025, and a fresh leak from Evan Blass via The Verge points to another Legion Go handheld—a direct replacement for the current-generation Go—launching alongside the Go S. While the Go S will supposedly be powered by the less powerful AMD Ryzen Z2G and its Radeon 680M iGPU, the full-fat Legion Go 2 will likely use a more powerful processor and iGPU, suggesting that a Ryzen Z2 Extreme SoC is on the way.
Perhaps the most compelling thing about the new Legion Go handheld, though is that it will reportedly feature an OLED display. Despite the new display tech, though, the Legion Go 2 will supposedly have the same display size, detachable controllers, and FPS mode, although the images shared by Blass show significantly rounder controller edges, which should make the chunky handheld less cumbersome to hold. The leaks make no mention of SteamOS or a Steam button for the Legion Go 2, suggesting that it will still be a Windows-first gaming handheld, and the Legion Space button is still present on the face of the Legion Go 2 featured in the leaks.
Source:
The Verge
Perhaps the most compelling thing about the new Legion Go handheld, though is that it will reportedly feature an OLED display. Despite the new display tech, though, the Legion Go 2 will supposedly have the same display size, detachable controllers, and FPS mode, although the images shared by Blass show significantly rounder controller edges, which should make the chunky handheld less cumbersome to hold. The leaks make no mention of SteamOS or a Steam button for the Legion Go 2, suggesting that it will still be a Windows-first gaming handheld, and the Legion Space button is still present on the face of the Legion Go 2 featured in the leaks.
28 Comments on Lenovo Legion Go 2 Leaked with OLED Display and AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme SoC
...and the single biggest problem the Legion Go has always faced is Lenovos appaling software support. It's by far the worst of all the handhelds. Very sporadic fixes and driver releases compared to Steam Deck and the Rog Ally.
Are companies seriously thinking a Windows handheld is taking off now?! Yikess
Windows handhelds are going mainstream. What's left is for Microsoft to get their affairs in order and develop a proper Windows shell for this form factor.
I've been enjoying mine lots. I don't rly see it dying off as it's a pretty useful device to have if you ever travel. At home I don't know though, but couch gaming is fun (I don't have a console so I don't rly have a way to play on the TV haha). I've definitely seen at the very least 100h+ of gaming on my Ally.
Honestly I hope to see the market for handheld gaming grow tbh, so I'm glad it's been taken seriously by more companies.
Lenovo needs to take software more seriously. I've heard it's pretty jank still and it's been about a year now.
That button is most likely just a shortcut to open Steam. For now at least. But it doesnt rule out the possibility of Lenovo working with Valve for official SteamOS support on this handheld when the time comes.
Or you can just be an enthusiast & have all of them but get an eGPU enclosure just to see how well it works <-- me.
Although eGPU enclosures are expensive even second hand, performance is also lost going through an eGPU.
Oh forgot to touch on the performance loss argument - yes, you do lose performance via TB3/USB4 compared to in a decent desktop, so you could arguably say a desktop with a tier down GPU is more equivalent.