Lenovo Unveils Legion Go S and Gives Sneak Peak at Next Generation Handheld Gaming PCs

The Lenovo Legion Go was already 1 of nan best handheld gaming PCs since it came retired successful 2023, but astatine CES Lenovo has unveiled 2 much handhelds astatine CES 2025, a lightweight Legion Go S, and a prototype of nan much-awaited Lenovo Legion Go 2.

The astir noticable quality betwixt nan Legion Go S and nan plain-old Legion Go is this new, lighter exemplary doesn't person nan removable controllers of nan original handheld. Instead, nan Legion Go S has a shape facet that's much reminiscient of nan Asus ROG Ally X aliases Steam Deck. Luckily, though, nan caller handheld retains nan useful small trackpad beneath nan look buttons that makes navigating Windows 11 overmuch easier.

But while everything would look to constituent to nan Lenovo Legion Go S being little powerful than nan original handheld, Lenovo has really improved immoderate of nan specs connected offer. The Legion Go S will person up to 32GB of LPDDR5X memory, on pinch an improved 55.5WHr battery, which should lead to somewhat longer artillery life. The Legion Go S is besides disposable pinch either an AMD Ryzen Z2 Go aliases Z1 Extreme processor.

If you'd alternatively dengap utilizing Windows 11 altogether, though, you're successful luck, arsenic Lenovo is launching a type of nan Legion Go S that'll beryllium moving SteamOS arsenic well, making for nan first non-Valve handheld to usage nan civilization Linux operating system. That does mean nan Lenovo Legion Go S moving connected Steam OS would beryllium taxable to nan aforesaid restrictions arsenic nan Valve handheld, namely only being capable to tally games done Steam unless you bypass nan installed operating system.

If you want to get your hands connected nan Lenovo Legion Go S, nan Windows 11 type pinch an Z2 Go and 32GB of RAM will motorboat successful January 2025, starting astatine $729. However, a much affordable type is launching successful May 2025, pinch nan aforesaid Z2 Go chip, but pinch 16GB of RAM and your prime of Windwos 11 aliases SteamOS for $599.

Stay Tuned For The Sequel

While nan Lenovo Legion Go S is coming retired successful nan adjacent fewer months, Lenovo besides gave a speedy glimpse of nan Lenovo Legion Go 2, powered by nan precocious announced AMD Z2 Extreme SoC (System connected a Chip). While nan Legion Go sequel is still successful its prototype phase, Lenovo has teased a number of improvements that should make it a overmuch much comfortable instrumentality to usage complete agelong gaming sessions.

Namely, while nan instrumentality looks to beryllium astir nan aforesaid size arsenic nan original Legion Go, Lenovo has rounded nan edges of nan detachable controllers, which should make them much comfortable to clasp complete agelong gaming sessions. When I reviewed nan original Legion Go, I recovered that nan biggest rumor pinch nan point was really my hands felt aft holding nan hulking instrumentality for an hr aliases two, and hopefully these rounded edges alleviate that.

The internals are besides seeing an improvement, though I'd expect this is nan point that's astir apt to alteration from its prototype version. It of people features a next-gen AMD Z2 Extreme processor, but nan representation has besides been beefed up to 32GB of LPDDR5X, clocked astatine 7,500MHz. That's doubly nan representation arsenic nan original Legion Go, but clocked astatine nan aforesaid speed. Lenovo is besides beefing up nan battery, including a 74WHr battery, up from nan 49WHr of nan original device.

Only clip will show really overmuch of a capacity bump this next-generation handheld will really provide, but astatine slightest pinch a 50% summation to artillery capacity, it should past much than an hr earlier dying. I'll conscionable person to hold and spot really it performs successful nan laboratory erstwhile (and if) it really comes out.

Jackie Thomas is nan Hardware and Buying Guides Editor astatine IGN and nan PC components queen. You tin travel her @Jackiecobra