I am downsizing my gaming setup as I don’t game too much anymore, just casually. I want to use a gaming handheld to play games in bed, dock to my two monitors for casual use like Microsoft office etc too. Most of the time I will be next to a wall outlet so can charge it easily.

There is so much hype around the Steam Deck OLED but it seems amazing more for portable usage.

Would it be worth me looking at the Lenovo Legion Go potentially? The larger 1600p screen with 144hz seems just as great and I can play games plugged in most of the time. The only thing that scares me is the software still basically being in beta and the difficulty of getting gyro to work, oh and of course the steam deck trackpads are better.

Any thoughts/advice is appreciated!

  • 97runner@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I looked into the Legion and decided against it because there is so many postings out there (Reddit and other places) about how bad the software runs. I watched a few YouTube videos and the unit would freeze/lag while they were reviewing it. It just seemed to be not ready for release. The battery life is also pretty bad.

    If you game with Steam, then the deck is the way to go (the OLED is nice, but the LCD isn’t horrible by any means). You can also load other launches (epic, gog, etc) on the deck and play your libraries. It will also emulate pretty much every vintage system out there—which opens up even more games.

    As of the moment, Steam is still king of the handhelds.