Logitech G Gaming Handheld Points to a Cloud-based Handheld Console Future

[btarunr]

While high-end smartphone SoCs pack an incredible amount of graphics processing power, they're expensive; and bringing 5 W-class PC mobile processors to the Console, such as the Steam Deck, limits AAA gameplay capability. Logitech G has a frugal idea for markets with good saturation of Internet—cloud gaming. The Logitech G Gaming Handheld is just that—an Android-based handheld device with a custom UI, a touchscreen, and a gamepad layout similar to a contemporary handheld gaming console.

The idea behind Logitech G Gaming Handheld is that the user has a cool-and-quiet device in their hands that brings Cloud Gaming to them. Logitech doesn't have a cloud-gaming service of its own, but since the device is Android-based, it will hook you up with GeForce NOW, PS Now, Stadia, Amazon Luna, Blacknut, etc. At its core is a Qualcomm G3X-based SoC, a 6.65-inch touchscreen, a conventional gamepad layout, a microSD expansion slot, and audio jack. There's no word on the comms, but it's likely that you get Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Logitech is promising a launch later this year.



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[sepheronx]

"Cloud gaming" can jump off a cliff.

Don't own anything and you'll be happy as they say.

 

[Chaitanya]

As long as battery is easy to replace and bootloader isnt locked.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

As long as battery is easy to replace and bootloader isnt locked.

You know it will be.

 

[AusWolf]

Seeing the words "cloud" and "gaming" in one sentence gives me the shivers.

 

[Nephilim666]

You know it will be.

But if you buy a launch console and don't allow it to update there will likely be a crack.

 

[Kohl Baas]

Not for me they're not. As long as they can't solve the impossibility of playing in the cloud without internet connection, they can stick it to wherever they like. I don't want to be bound to any network with a mobile device.

 

[nguyen]

as if the gaming experience weren't bad enough on handhelds, now it's cloud-based

 

[sLowEnd]

If I wanted to game on Android, I could just use my phone. Logitech's handheld doesn't have a library of exclusive games like the Switch does either.

I don't want to hate on Logitech for trying something out of their comfort zone, but I'm honestly not sold on this thing.

 

[Hachi_Roku256563]

ill stick to my PSP
it works without Any internet
and i can swap the batterys around

 

[1d10t]

I bet Logitech just rebranded some weird mainland device and call it a day, and good luck while slapped "cloud gaming" on that.
GPD just release updated version of GP XP, GP XP Plus

That thing already cost more than upper mid smartphone with Qualcomm 765G ( mind you GPD using Mediatek's Dimensity ), many including myself deemed GPD XP Plus ain't worth it.

 

[evernessince]

This is surely logitech making a joke right?

Anywhere you take the device out you'll now have to consider if that location has a connection capable of delivering a decent cloud gaming experience. That's not many places which kinda defeats the whole idea of mobile gaming.

 

[HairyLobsters]

as if the gaming experience weren't bad enough on handhelds, now it's cloud-based

Isn't that kind of the point? If you can't fit powerful a desktop pc performance into something small, offload the power to a server.

 

[nguyen]

Isn't that kind of the point? If you can't fit powerful a desktop pc performance into something small, offload the power to a server.

Best way is streaming from your PC, cloud based would have horrible latency.

 

[AusWolf]

Isn't that kind of the point? If you can't fit powerful a desktop pc performance into something small, offload the power to a server.

... a server that requires a constant, stable and high-speed Internet connection, making mobile gaming not mobile at all.