The Lenovo Legion Go 2 looks SWEET. - Lenovo at CES 2025

Lenovo is back with TWO new handhelds -- the Legion Go 2 and the Legion Go S. With an OLED screen and bigger battery, the 2 looks like a pretty nice device, but the Go S has some tricks up its sleeves too, like how it runs SteamOS!

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0:00 Legion Go 2
1:55 Sponsor - dbrand
2:43 Legion Go S
4:14 Outro

[criofan]

The leaps for handhelds in the past few years has been insane

[catch]

The often overlooked thing about the 1600p screen in the Legion Go 1 is the ability to do perfect integer scaling at 800p. I've basically been running every modern / heavy game I play at 800p without the typical blur that comes from lowering the resolution. Something I'm definitely going to miss. But I can understand most people weren't aware of it, ran everything at max resolution, and wondered why the performance was so bad. 1920x1200 should help with that, at least.

[Razear]

The one with SteamOS preinstalled is going to be much more intriguing. Not having to deal with reading tiny font on Windows and installing cumbersome updates and whatnot is a gamechanger.

[jaughnekow]

steamOS as an open system is a good thing

[jorismak]

1:06 hear me out. What was awesome about the old screen is that you could set it to 1280x800 and get perfect integer scaling. With 1920x1200 you _have_ to set it to that resolution, setting it to 1280x800 now will get you a blurry setup because it's not native.

[mrpk]

the year of the integrated graphics is here ladies and gentlemen!

[WalcomS]

The FPS Mouse mode for the original Legion Go is ace. I use it constantly, it works well in bed, and it cuts down on having to carry one extra thing. I wouldn't want to competitively game on it, but it's perfect for everything else including productivity. I'm glad the Legion Go 2 is keeping that, and apparently the Legion Go 2 controllers will be backwards compatible and sold separately.

Legion Go was underrated, even if you're just looking for a tiny Windows tablet. Thing is pure magic and has chewed through everything I've thrown at it, from early 2000s PC gaming to Black Ops 6 at 100+ FPS.

[DisturbedNeo]

Even if the Legion 2 doesn’t ship with SteamOS, by the time it releases, you’ll probably be able to just install SteamOS onto it anyway. Otherwise, there’s always Bazzite.

In any case, a capable device with detachable controllers, decent battery life, OLED screen, I’m practically sold on this thing already. If it comes with hall effect joysticks out of the box, it’ll be perfect, but even then as long as it’s easy enough to tear down, those joysticks could be replaced, so it may not be as big of an issue.

[Hdtjdjbszh]

25 is going to be such a year for handhelds! I LOVE how valve essentially created this market and then stepped in to be the goto OS for it!

[ThatOneZombie]

my only complain with the Legion Go Handhelds (and I own both an Ally X and a Go) is the lack of software support. I wish Lenovo just would support the OG instead of leaving the OG out to die. I get it, new hardware, new performance margins but the original Go was such a good and fun idea. I just wished they supported it more, than just making it up to us to make it better. (Loseless scaling with integer scaling mode on and the like)

[ujwalshrestha]

All handhelds need battery larger or at least equivalent to 80wh

[thescottishaccent]

What I want to know - as a Legion Go owner - is if the Go 2's screen is native landscape now? The native portrait screen they used for the first model causes/caused a bit of jankiness at times, and I think that would be a good step.

[reenokopli]

1:08 It's a great portable pc and you can use lossless scaling. There is no reason to support it 🗿

[Fhnsgkdfkvsgmvdg-yu]

I'd love to see a 'thirty days using only a handheld' challenge. It'll be dongle hell for sure.

[nedthefed]

Thumbnail shows the wrong game, Ratchet & Clank 2016 (PS4 & PS5 exclusive) instead of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (available on PC)

[LeonCold]

I hope the trigger stoppers make its way to the Legion Go 2, didn’t see them on the device

[finraziel]

Saying it's faster than the Z1 is a bit of a bs argument... I mean, the Z1, as opposed to the Z1e, is the version everyone had to be careful not to buy by accident because it was the anemic smaller brother that was absolutely not worth it unless you only wanted to play really light games or stream everything.
We'll have to see how it actually performs, but I'm more interested in the Go 2 for now. Shame they don't have a release date for that yet.

[mahatmagandhiful]

The Z2 Go is basically what everyone was clamoring for instead of the 8840U/Z1E that we eventually got in the Ally/Legion Go/Win GPD/Aya Neo etc.: still 4 cores, beefier IGP. With that, it really feels like the Legion Go S is a true "Steam Deck Pro" update that completes the transition the Deck OLED started. The problem with those others was that while they could outperform the Steam Deck, they always needed more power to do so, 25-30W versus the Deck's typical 10-15, and the battery/cooling ballooned them in both size and cost; hopefully this can maintain/improve on the power efficiency of the Steam Deck. I'd have liked it to shave another $50 to $100 to REALLY be the undisputed value king, but even at $500 it's a great product. I am truly excited to see how this thing performs. If all goes well, I can see the Z2 Go being a drop-in replacement for Van Gogh on an actual Steam Deck Pro (though ultimately I think Valve will want to target maybe one more generation or two's worth of power/performance/BOM gains).

[Domfootstitch]

Oled is literally the make or break on an upgrade - I'm gonna get one of these as soon as they are out. I love my ROG ally, but this thing finally checks ALL the boxes.

[origamifolder]

Are we going to overlook the fact that Spiderman 2 is running when it's not even on PC yet?