SteamOS seduces another handheld as a new Lenovo Legion Go 2 readies for June

Costing conscionable (coughing, spluttering) $1199

That canvass I posted the different time suggests that implicit fractional of you RPS scholar types play games connected Linux, either successful portion oregon exclusively. And if a canvass says it, I’m successful nary presumption to argue, truthful lad bash I person conscionable the CES 2026 communicative for you: Lenovo are making a SteamOS mentation of their premium Legion Go 2 portable, joining the lower-end Legion Go S successful spreading the Linux-based SteamOS beyond the confines of Valve’s ain Steam Decks.

Vanquishing the evils of Windows connected handheld PCs – with its nefarious bloatware and idiosyncratic interface designed by Beelzebub himself – is much captious than ever, fixed the cheapest LCD Decks’ caller discontinuation. The SteamOS Legion Go 2, mind, isn’t precisely a similar for similar alternative. It shares specs with 2025’s Windows version, meaning a honking 8.8in, 1200p, 144Hz OLED display, up to 2TB of SSD storage, up to 32GB of RAM, and up to the AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme APU. Like the archetypal Legion Go, it besides gets each Switch-like with removable controllers, 1 of which transforms into a dinky upright mouse.

It's besides going to beryllium alternatively un-Steam Deckish connected price. I’m inactive waiting connected its UK summons but the SteamOS Legion Go 2 volition seemingly commencement astatine $1199/€1049, keeping it adjacent costlier than the famously costly Asus ROG Xbox Ally X. Also, astir treble that of the Legion Go S, Lenovo’s archetypal ace astatine an authoritative SteamOS handheld.

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All the same, I’m beauteous keen to effort retired the big’un. Mainly due to the fact that it appears to hole a batch of what held the archetypal Legion Go back: the show rez is simply a acold much sensible 1920x1200, reducing powerfulness gully versus the original’s pointlessly precocious 2560x1440 pixel plate, and the artillery itself has ballooned from a 49Whr to 74Whr capacity. After the Steam Deck OLED, it’s besides hard not to consciousness similar OLED is conscionable the outright superior sheet tech for handhelds; it’s brighter, much colourful, much efficient, and physically thinner than IPS/LCD. All that, positive a amended operating system, sounds similar thing that’s astatine slightest worthy investigating.

Not that you can’t wrangle SteamOS onto an existing, Windows-fuelled Legion Go 2. This cheerful antheral surrounded by toys manages it successful a trifle. There’s inactive plentifulness of technofaff involved, though, truthful waiting a fewer months for a afloat preinstalled and certified SteamOS exemplary volition stay the simpler, perchance safer play.