Wow, didn’t even go into the quality of the sticks, triggers and buttons. Fine, I guess? Anyone can put the Deck, Legion Go, Switch and even an Xbox controller next to each other to make that comparison.
The performance issues are pretty much what I expect from any handheld that tries to push the resolution and refresh rate much farther than the Steam Deck or Switch. You won’t get any benefit out of it, just a higher price. Well, it’s nice for indie games probably.
You could make better use of the screen if you double down on the integrated graphics and make the whole thing like €1200. I’m not big on hardware knowledge but there are more powerful chips out there that fit in a handheld, right? Battery life would probably be terrible.
Iant there an official steam OS version for this device…?
Edit: wait wasn’t this supposed to come with Steam OS?
There is supposed to be an eventual release with steamOS, which seems to be very close to being ready.
I have the original Legion go, and am running steamOS beta, it’s so lovely, highly recommended.
I’m not apologizing for Windows here, but touchscreen has been natively supported since Windows 8, and has functioned way earlier than that… It also isn’t an issue on the ROG Ally, so I think Lenovo needs to work on the driver.
Other complaints are 100% fair.
Not really a “Windows” problem, but a “Lenovo didn’t do any work to make windows better for their device” problem. Steam deck has an entire OS dedicated to making it run smoothly. What Lenovo did would be like if Valve just left you with the barebones Linux desktop and held out its hand for cash. Is Windows a perfect operating system? Fuck no. But let’s assign blame where it is earned. Windows isn’t at fault because Lenovo got lazy.
Has anyone made a Windows gaming handheld which achieves Steam-level user experience?
Seems unfair to blame Lenovo if nobody else can turn Windows from a sow’s ear into a silk purse.
Well, maybe if they tried, which Lenovo hasn’t. They chose to use barebones windows. They were lazy.
I don’t know, fuck it, keep blaming windows for everyone else’s failures. Whatever.
Yeah I will continue to blame the OS vendor for the OS being unfit for purpose.
“Lenovo didn’t do any work to make windows better for their device” problem
There’s not much they can do. Problems are at the OS level, where Lenovo has no control.
I’m pretty sure Big Picture Mode on Desktop Steam proves that you can have a dedicated user experience curated on windows without having to rewrite the OS. Lenovo didn’t do anything, they just shipped stock windows and a storefront and assumed it would work out.
If you’ve used Big Picture Mode, you know 1. It’s also available on the Legion Go S and 2. it absolutely does not solve that problem.
SteamOS solves that problem with GameScope and also by not running unnecessary background processes.
