Lenovo Has Officially Revealed Its Legion Go Windows Gaming Handheld
After several leaks, Lenovo has officially revealed the Legion Go, including its full featureset and pricing.
Let’s start with price: €799, from Lenovo’s own press release, or $ 699 in the US. Given that it has the same AMD Ryzen Z1 processor as the ASUS ROG Ally, Lenovo is demonstrating that they are ready to go to a price war. That may be risky business for these gaming companies, but its great news for us consumers.
The Legion Go distinguishes itself from the ROG Ally with a larger, 8.8”QHD screen, that’s fitted in a considerably wider, thicker, larger handheld. The Legion Go is about as pocketable as the Atari Lynx, but Lenovo did think things through when they made these choices.
As a consequence, the Legion Go isn’t designed to use gyro, and Lenovo came up with several ways around that. For starters, as you may already know, it has detachable controllers, like the Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Cons. Lenovo is selling gamers on laying their Legion Go on a table, while they freely move their hands around holding their TrueStrike controllers.
Second, and as you may have already seen, the right TrueStrike controller has a 10 point touchpad, which will also be useful for general navigation. But they have an even better solution for FPS gameplay. A switch (small font, not Nintendo’s) at the bottom of the right TrueStrike controller allows you to enable FPS mode.
As it turns out, FPS mode turns the controller into a sideways mouse, which also seems to be held very similarly to those strange looking ergonomic mice. So not only will it be a better control scheme for FPS games, it will be better on your wrists too. The device will come with a base for easier holding, and Lenovo claims the final base will also be magnetic.
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