Lenovo Legion Go priced at $799

[John Elden Ring]

• An official document confirms the Lenovo Legion Go rumors we've shared so far
• The gaming handheld will be unveiled on September 1st, and you can buy it for €799/$799 in October
• Impressively, the specs sheet details a massive 8.8” QHD+ (2560 x 1600) screen
• Fast charging, bigger battery and a complete couch-to-go experience makes the Legion Go a worthy choice

A leaked press release says that the Lenovo Legion Go will cost $799/€799.

Per Windows Report, the handheld will be revealed on September 1 and will go on sale in October.

The competitor to Valve's Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally will run on Windows 11 and feature an AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor. Legion Go's specs also include an 8.8-inch QHD display screen, a touchpad, 16GB memory, and a super rapid charge battery. People who purchase the console will also receive three months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.

Additionally, Windows Report had details regarding other Lenovo gaming accessories. The Lenovo Legion AR Glasses, €499/$499, will reportedly work with any USB-C device. Its new gaming in-ear headphones, priced at €49.99, are also poised to be released this October.

 

[flaccidsnake]

Looks like a solid addition to the ecosystem. I can't wait to see how it fares in reviews especially compared with the Ally.

 

[anonpuffs]

>windows 11

Foh

 

[ksdixon]

I'd love another PS/Sony "For the players" type ad campaign. Just do a more refined version of this, show someone going from playing PS to needing to go out and taking PS4 Portable, wearing the PS buds, posting live content to social via PS ecosystem, transition to streaming and/or remote playing or just have local storage on the device...

Switch scene to a bar-cade where maybe the deejay has Sony InZone headset and an Xperia Phone instead to incorporate/intertwine those brands closer, and the games are all PS heavy hitters coming to "PS+ soon" etc, like Tekken or an old WipeOut, stuff people will know. Just imagine a new round of advert every month or as a snippet in a State Of Play, and through the advert we get software announcements instead of just a blog post or whatever. Now imagine it's Kevin Butler dressing up trying to be cool across these scenes. Lol.

Between PS and Xperia branding, PSX codename for PS1, the PSX DVD Player thing, and the Xperia Play phone history... there's plenty of ways to put a little effort behind things and inter-work. You could define a range of varying tech/lifestyle products under "PSX" branding away from the main consoles, and it's "PS x ..." "PS Xperia, PS x Phone, PS x Social, PS x Metaverse, PS x Home etc".

Honestly, Sony should strangle this market whilst they still can. Take advantage of the userbase/market share and on the fence potentials. I don't think the rub is in the PC power or even the emulation, it's the "new" portable form factor for the games we already play. I think the PS backend is needed, everything else is like a workaround via windows, lynx or mobile remote play, and people just want their games made into portable.

 

[JAHGamer]

• An official document confirms the Lenovo Legion Go rumors we've shared so far
• The gaming handheld will be unveiled on September 1st, and you can buy it for €799/$799 in October
• Impressively, the specs sheet details a massive 8.8” QHD+ (2560 x 1600) screen
• Fast charging, bigger battery and a complete couch-to-go experience makes the Legion Go a worthy choice

A leaked press release says that the Lenovo Legion Go will cost $799/€799.

Per Windows Report, the handheld will be revealed on September 1 and will go on sale in October.

The competitor to Valve's Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally will run on Windows 11 and feature an AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor. Legion Go's specs also include an 8.8-inch QHD display screen, a touchpad, 16GB memory, and a super rapid charge battery. People who purchase the console will also receive three months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.

Additionally, Windows Report had details regarding other Lenovo gaming accessories. The Lenovo Legion AR Glasses, €499/$499, will reportedly work with any USB-C device. Its new gaming in-ear headphones, priced at €49.99, are also poised to be released this October.

Isn't that the same APU as the Rog ally? Which struggles to run games at 1080p already? What use is a 1600p 144hz display for a small screen and small battery? Windows 11 is garbage in a handheld too...everything about this seems pointless. I guess they packed it to the brim with useless features so they could get away with charging $800....The AR companion glasses seem cool but the XReal glasses do the same thing but cheaper.....

 

[Old Gamer]

Battery wasted by running Windows.
Left stick in the wrong position.

No, thanks.

 

[Muddasar]

Crazy price.

Yet people expect Sony to release a Native handheld with the same power.

Not just that but at the price of a PS5 and expect PS5 ports to it.

Not happening especially with the Xbox potato issues Microsoft is having.

 

[historia]

Crazy price.

Yet people expect Sony to release a Native handheld with the same power.

Not just that but at the price of a PS5 and expect PS5 ports to it.

Not happening especially with the Xbox potato issues Microsoft is having.

Yea, that's would be quite expensive, maybe 500 US dollars at minimum.

 

[ethomaz]

The price is set correctly when you don't have subside from the software side.
Steam Deck and ROG Ally have similar prices.

Only handheld subsided by platform holders Sony or Nintendo reaches $399 price points.

Said that the specs are okay.
The screen resolution is a big too high for a portable and the hardware (CPU & GPU) inside it.
Together with ROG Ally makes Steam Deck obsolete until Valve choose to release a new model.

I believe I can categorize them as:

• Highest performance but heavy (size and weight): Legion Go
• Good performance with UI improvements: ROG Ally
• Low performance but cheap: Steam Deck

I think the ROG Ally is still the best option here... it is in the middle ground of price, performance and easy of use.

 

[ToTTenTranz]

It's best that people set reasonable expectation about this price.

The Legion Go starts at $800, uses up to a Z1 Extreme chip and minimum storage is 256GB.

That means those $800 most probably refers to the lowest-end SKU with a Z1 non-extreme and 256GB storage.
The regular Z1 is a completely different chip. It uses a 6-core CPU and a 2 WGP / 4CU iGPU. The iGPU is really tiny, a third the size of the ROG Ally's and half the size of the Steam Deck's. It clocks much higher than the Steam Deck, but even then it reaches only 1.4TFLOPs against the Steam Deck's 1.6TFLOPs

The Z1 Extreme is clearly bandwidth and power-limited, but even then in all these GPU-limited games (RDR2, Company of Heroes, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Far Cry), the Z1 gets just a bit over half the Extreme's performance. The Z1 should still be pretty good for emulation as it uses the same Zen4 cores with AVX512, but it won't run high-end windows games nearly as fast.


That said, expect the Legion Go with a Z1 Extreme and >256GB SSD to cost well above $800. This is, after all, a pretty expensive to make handheld with the 8.8" 144Hz QHD VRR screen, and two detachable controllers with HD haptics with their own batteries, It's also using ~18% faster LPDDR5X 7500MT/s RAM that's more expensive than the Asus' 6400MT/s, as well as a larger battery.

 

[ToTTenTranz]

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