Lenovo Announces Legion Go Device for Portable PC Gaming - Hardcore Gamer

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Thanks to 2022’s Steam Deck, the world of portable PC gaming has exploded. What was once a niche with a $1,200 barrier of entry became a mass market item thanks to a low price point and fairly high amount of power for the dollar. The Deck’s popularity was expected to be a hit when it had its early access launch and was, and that only grew with the full release that wasn’t time-limited and has grown even more with the release of refurbished units. Valve’s refurbished units enable you to get into PC gaming for under $350 and now even Gamestop’s getting into the hunt with their own refurbished units – although since they’re doing the refurbishment, it’s probably far safer to just get ones from Valve directly.

A few months ago, we had the release of the ROG Ally and this has been something of a mixed blessing for the portable PC gaming space because of how the device was built and its overall build quality compared to the Deck. Having been an early bird on both, I had to rebuild my Deck’s OS after going into sleep mode with updates pending in desktop mode on day one and that actually took three days to do with weird charging and display issues – but the device has been trouble-free since then. The micro SD card having to be formatted for that device is a bit of a pain too since you can’t just grab an existing card and move a directory of games over to it willy-nilly.

In theory, the ROG Ally should be an easier Windows experience to work with, but at least when trying to use a 512 GB Samsung micro SD, I had to reformat it a few times to get it work with the Ally and never could get it to read with my Windows 10 PC – so that meant I had to rebuild everything via OneDrive downloads, which is at least a workaround that will