Lenovo Legion Go 2 Leaked with OLED Display and AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme SoC

[Cpt.Jank]

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.



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[The Quim Reaper]

Unless it gets a bigger battery, minimum 75Whr and a boost to at least 24GB RAM, I cant see it making much more of an impact thant the first one.

...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.

 

[Naito]

Unless it gets a bigger battery, minimum 75Whr and a boost to at least 24GB RAM, I cant see it making much more of an impact thant the first one.

...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.

This. Any top-tier devices from manufacturers need to have at least a battery of that capacity and 24 or 32GB of RAM, without these or very, very good pricing, they'll be DOA

 

[Vayra86]

Seems like Lenovo is having a bit of a conceptual problem with their Legion Go. Why are they differentiating their handhelds like this, on an OS level? Something for everyone idea?

Are companies seriously thinking a Windows handheld is taking off now?! Yikess

 

[AcE]

Are companies seriously thinking a Windows handheld is taking off now?! Yikess

ROG Ally already did ^^ it's popular enough, behind the deck

 

[Vayra86]

ROG Ally already did ^^ it's popular enough, behind the deck

I'm seriously wondering if that's gonna last though. Once the novelty factor has worn off, is it really such a useful device?

 

[AcE]

I'm seriously wondering if that's gonna last though. Once the novelty factor has worn off, is it really such a useful device?

what's novelty about it? It's already been refreshed, so it seems to go well. It's way more performant (as seen here always in the handheld tests of TPU) when you use the 25W mode at least, 4 Core cpus as in Deck are just not enough for a proper device, it's underspecced, more so than the Ally is just better on top. The Ally X is way better than the deck because of the big battery you can just use the 25W mode all the time, it's same performance in 15W mode but runs for even longer then. *If* i'd buy a device like this today it would 100% be the ROG Ally X. All these other devices like this, MSIs, are more or less a copy of the Ally (which itself is heavily influenced by the deck).

 

[Naito]

Are companies seriously thinking a Windows handheld is taking off now?! Yikess

Windows is exactly why I'd buy such a device. Being able to play 20 yo games from a back catalog is what these are perfect for; light on resources so can run lower TDPs, plenty of grunt so if you do run texture mods and other hacks, it doesn't tax the hardware, high FPS so can be locked if the device lacks VRR.

 

[W4ND1L3]

Unless it gets a bigger battery, minimum 75Whr and a boost to at least 24GB RAM, I cant see it making much more of an impact thant the first one.

...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.

It's rumoured to having 100WHr battery.

 

[Mindweaver]

Here is the leak photo of the new Lenovo SteamOS handheld. You can see the steam branding on the top left menu button.

 

[HOkay]

I'm still enjoying my Go, it certainly had its problems at launch but its pretty solid now. As long as you don't need the latest AMD drivers, their driver updates are pathetically slow. I agree with others on it needing a bigger battery & more RAM. The screen is great, but could use VRR for sure, & not being naive portrait would be nice for the couple of times that's been an issue for me. Oh & more POWA ofc; both CPU & GPU. I've literally just put mine down from playing hooked up to a 1080ti via an eGPU enclosure. Gotta do something whilst the baby naps!

 

[AcE]

I'm still enjoying my Go, it certainly had its problems at launch but its pretty solid now. As long as you don't need the latest AMD drivers, their driver updates are pathetically slow. I agree with others on it needing a bigger battery & more RAM. The screen is great, but could use VRR for sure, & not being naive portrait would be nice for the couple of times that's been an issue for me. Oh & more POWA ofc; both CPU & GPU. I've literally just put mine down from playing hooked up to a 1080ti via an eGPU enclosure. Gotta do something whilst the baby naps!

Good to hear that.

 

[CosmicWanderer]

I'm seriously wondering if that's gonna last though. Once the novelty factor has worn off, is it really such a useful device?

The novelty has not worn off, with the Switch 2 coming, the hype is just getting started, especially for people who want something more powerful and dont want to be locked into Nintendo (or Steams) ecosystem.

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.

 

[Kodehawa]

what's novelty about it? It's already been refreshed, so it seems to go well. It's way more performant (as seen here always in the handheld tests of TPU) when you use the 25W mode at least, 4 Core cpus as in Deck are just not enough for a proper device, it's underspecced, more so than the Ally is just better on top. The Ally X is way better than the deck because of the big battery you can just use the 25W mode all the time, it's same performance in 15W mode but runs for even longer then. *If* i'd buy a device like this today it would 100% be the ROG Ally X. All these other devices like this, MSIs, are more or less a copy of the Ally (which itself is heavily influenced by the deck).

Reminds me, there's a few 70~75Wh battery mods for the normal Ally that are out there, I might get one of them and see how it goes. Pretty much makes for almost-the-X haha

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.

 

[LabRat 891]

Does it at least have USB4 for docking + eGPU? I know the SoC/platform should support it...