Valve Will Be Lenovo’s ‘special Guest’ At Just-announced Gaming Handheld Event

“The early of gaming handhelds is coming to CES ‘25 and you personification a beforehand connection seat!” nan email successful my inbox exclaims.

Let maine translate: it looks for illustration Lenovo conscionable tacitly confirmed it will denote its first SteamOS handheld successful Las Vegas connected aliases earlier January 7th, 2025. We’re expecting it to beryllium nan Steam fastener equipped Legion Go S that leaker Evan Blass revealed past week.

Why do I opportunity that? The January 7th event, titled “Lenovo Legion x AMD: The Future of Gaming Handhelds,” will characteristic a emblematic guest: Valve SteamOS and Steam Deck co-designer Pierre-Loup Griffais. Lenovo and AMD are calling him Valve’s “Chief Design Architect” for purposes of this event.

(Most Valve labour are simply considered designers internally, since they fluidly move betwixt teams and tasks; I judge Griffais erstwhile told maine he prefers nan same, but it’s existent he’s too been 1 of nan less nationalist faces of SteamOS and nan Steam Deck. It’s a fascinating company.)

Griffais won’t beryllium nan only intriguing premier of panelist connected stage: Jason Ronald, Microsoft VP of Xbox Gaming Devices and Ecosystem will too beryllium successful attendance. He's now being introduced arsenic Microsoft’s “VP of Next Generation."

We exclusively shared pinch you past week that Lenovo will revamp its larger, seemingly Windows-based Legion Go pinch detachable controllers, too. And we’re too expecting Lenovo to hedge its bets pinch a Windows type of nan smaller Legion Go S based connected those aforesaid leaks. It's a reasonable liking some, if not each of these devices will recreation pinch AMD’s yet-to-be-detailed Z2 Extreme chips.

Here’s nan afloat mentation of nan event:

Join america for a cocktail reception hosted by Lenovo Legion and AMD gaming leaders, pinch emblematic guests Valve and different gaming manufacture giants. We’ll beryllium sharing our thoughts connected what lies up successful nan gaming handheld abstraction and showcasing our latest Lenovo Legion Go innovations precocious by AMD. Come to comprehend really Lenovo Legion and AMD Ryzen are making gaming overmuch immersive for each and enactment to acquisition nan early of handheld gaming firsthand!

We’re not presently expecting Microsoft to astonishment pinch an Xbox handheld astatine nan event, arsenic gaming leader Phil Spencer has suggested that mightiness beryllium a less years away. But it’s imaginable that Microsoft and Lenovo will effort to propose that each handhelds are Xbox handhelds, for illustration Microsoft does successful its caller “This is an Xbox” trading campaign:

I’ll beryllium attending, and I’ll fto you know!