Portable console Lenovo Legion Gowith an AMD x86 processor, began to be seen with a base price of $699 for the variant with 512GB of data storage (including the operating system).

Legion Go is another portable console that has been seen recently. The Lenovo device aims to compete primarily with the ASUS ROG Ally, with which it shares some features, such as the use of 16GB LPDDR5X RAM and a processor AMD Ryzen Z1 Extremebut it improves in parts like the screen which is bigger 8.8 inches and supports native resolution 2560 × 1600 pixelsaspect ratio 16:10, a Refresh rate 144Hz and 97% of the DCI-P3 color spectrum, plus RAM that runs at 7,500 MHz compared to 6,400 for its rival. Of course, both Lenovo and ASUS consoles have a variable refresh rate (VRR) and 500 nits of brightness.

Another peculiarity of the Lenovo Legion Go is that Its controls are removable similar to the Nintendo Switchand one of them can be used vertically as a mouse to improve the experience in games such as shooter and real-time strategy. Another aspect to consider is the SSD, which uses the PCIe 4 standard and uses the NVMe protocol, but supports the 2242 format instead of the 2230 used by Steam Deck and ASUS ROG Ally.

Legion Go has External GPU support via USB 4. Using an external graphics card allows you to extend the performance on this front so that you can display higher quality and higher resolution graphics. This point works in favor of the Lenovo console compared to the ROG Ally, which uses a proprietary XGM port that only works with external graphics models from ASUS itself. It is true that it is technically possible to use an Oculink adapter, but it is something that requires modification.

The options offered by the MicroCenter store for the purchase of Lenovo Legion Go.

Although a 10% performance loss was clearly seen with the RTX 3060, it is no less true that the Lenovo Legion Go opens the door to a cheaper external graphics upgrade and that supporting it is apparently simpler, requiring only a cable and a compatible external graphics card.

In short, we are just around the corner from the start of another contender in the sector, whose watermelon has just opened the Steam Deck. Interestingly, while Valve’s device uses SteamOS 3 (Linux) as its operating system, almost everyone else decided to go with Windows 11 and its greater support for themes playing games. However, Microsoft’s system has the paper disadvantage of requiring more resources to offer the same performance.

We’ll see if this “new” sector eventually consolidates or remains a fad. One thing that ASUS, Lenovo and Chinese manufacturers like ONE and AYANEO are guilty of is the determination to use “brute force” in a device that is supposed to be portable, which makes it difficult to offer good autonomy unless the user lowers the resolution. frame rate per second and refresh rate and possibly also the performance profile of the device, which we have already been able to verify with the ASUS ROG Ally.

Lenovo Legion Go will be marketed from October 31, 2023 at least in the United States.