Leak: Lenovo’s bigger Legion handheld provides OLED and retains the removable mouse

Earlier right now, Evan Blass revealed an unannounced Lenovo Legion Go S handheld gaming PC with an extraordinarily intriguing twist: a Steam button that means it could possibly be the primary third-party SteamOS handheld, and thus the primary true competitor to the Steam Deck.

But that handheld gaming PC apparently received’t be alone: Blass simply offered The Verge with these pictures of a brand new, bigger Lenovo Legion Go as properly.

As you may see, this Legion Go plans to maintain the removable Joy-Con like gamepads and kickstand that have been the only most distinctive options of the unique — they usually’ll hold the “FPS mode” the place you may plop a kind of controllers on a disc-shaped skate and use it like a vertical mouse.

But one mannequin can also swap out the Legion Go’s 8.8-inch IPS LCD display for one with an OLED panel on the identical measurement, based on the unique filenames of those pictures. That ought to imply improved colours and deeper blacks, and probably improved response occasions.

We don’t have any specs or advertising claims but, although, just like the all-important battery life measurement. Nor have we gotten a glimpse of the ports on this method. There is an AMD Z2 Extreme chip coming that would seemingly be the core of this handheld, however we don’t but know.

In my assessment of the unique Legion Go, I used to be blended on the removable controllers with their sharp-ish edges and a great deal of further mouse buttons that made them awkward to carry. These one appear to be way more easily sculpted, although, with revised mouse buttons on the appropriate removable pad, and a canopy you may place over the mounting rail so the copper charging pins don’t poke your palm.

The pictures we’ve seen do not function a Steam button, so it’s fairly seemingly Lenovo remains to be hedging its bets with Windows along with SteamOS.

But we are rather more assured in our prediction that the smaller Lenovo Legion Go S will probably be a SteamOS handheld. Blass confirmed me filenames that counsel the S will probably be “powered by” Steam, mirroring Valve’s new branding pointers for “Powered by SteamOS” units.

Valve defines “Powered by SteamOS” as “{hardware} operating the SteamOS working system, applied in shut collaboration with Valve.”

We’ve reached out to Valve and Lenovo to hopefully be taught extra.