Lenovo Legion Go - OMG THIS IS SO COOL

[Music] there is an all-new handheld gaming device the Lenovo Legion go and I think this is the best of the bunch and I say that because this is the first handheld gaming product that could actually play first person shooters well like you can be competitive in Shooters on this device and I think that alone makes this product so much better than anything else that's been on the market before like if you think about the way that handheld gaming products are perceived it's usually for like a more casual crowd and even if you're not a Casual Gamer and you pick up a handheld device usually you're playing more casual games because Shooters just don't fly on a product like this we're using thumbsticks and d-pads like it's just it's a little different but this thing it's got a trick up its sleeve so first of all let's talk about the hardware when you look at this product I think the first thing that you'll notice is that it has what seems to be a detachable set of controllers and they actually are so I'm just going to punch a little bit here this has a switch like controller experience and I say switch like only in mechanism not in functionality so to uh to remove these things it's a button on the back it's kind of like uh you you depress it like you push it in and you slide it down it is very unlike a switch in the sense that switches like work on a rail system this is not that it's like you press it you slide it down and once it's off you have these two separate controllers which are loose like that and check this out it has a built-in kickstand which I think looks I mean it looks awesome right you can have your gaming set up you got your controls and then to piece them back together you just clip them on they go in right on the side they slide up a little bit and then they connect uh it's remarkably easy to do but it's not exactly like how a switch works now in terms of the hardware itself this product like I'm just going to focus on the kind of Base like the base unit first this is plastic at first in like some of the leaked photos I thought this was like a metal device it's not it's a well-made legion caliber plastic device it's like very solid and there's venting back here for the airflow uh obviously if you're kickstanding underneath the kickstand is just a sticker with the model number and serial number and whatnot but you can actually take a look at the hinge here it's actually pretty neat this is on like a rail it like slides along the rail and it just seems really well made like this seems like a very tanky smartly designed hinge way better than the stuff on the Nintendo switch and way better than the non-existent one on the steam deck now the size of the Legion go is quite big this is running a large 8.8 inch display it's a lot bigger than the display that's on the steam deck which is running a seven inch display because it's a larger display it's like a larger product and a slightly heavier product but when you hold these devices the steam deck has this very ergonomic feel to it every time I pick one of these things up it just feels natural it's bigger device but it feels naturally like fitted to a hand this product I feel like is just at the cusp of it it still feels very comfortable but there's something about the way that this interacts with the the positioning of your hands it just feels chunkier than expected I think it's just because it's a large device it's bigger than the steam deck and it's a lot bigger than the RG Ally and this feels by comparison like very svelt and small but it is not as comfortable to hold because the grips just they don't have that ergonomic feel to it when you have big grips like this that like extend out the bottom and flare out it's just like a nice kind of it's a good feel and the steam deck and the legion go have it Ally doesn't quite now in terms of the controllers themselves I spent a little over a week with them and there's a lot to talk about so let's start off with the stuff I do like the sticks use Hall sensors so these use magnets to determine the position of the stick instead of the traditional potentiometer and the idea is that when you have magnets that do a readout with the kind of magnetic strength depending on the positioning you don't get stick drift or at least it's a lot rarer another thing I really like is the touchpad actually you know what I should just detach these things so you can see what's up and bring it right up to the camera so there is a touch pad that's right it's in a weird spot visually like when you look at it you're like hey why is the trackpad not centered but it's actually perfect like when you're actually holding it I should reattach it back but when you have it in position it's like this nice spot to have that trackpad it's like you know the movement of it is perfect but then visually it's a little bit strange but one thing I want to draw your attention to real quick this controller even though it attaches in a switch-like manner is not meant to be used as like a a controller for another player like if you removed both of these controls it would seem like you should be able to just have two separate controllers right kind of like a switch but they're so not meant for that they feel like this is what the right controller looks like I mean maybe they could Implement some software some really bad controls in a game uh and same thing with the left controller I'm sure in theory with some software you could do it but it's just not it's not meant for that uh so the question is why detach them right and so when I first interact with this thing I want to figure it out I sat there puzzled like what on Earth is the purpose of having two controllers that detach that don't even do anything when they're detached they can't be used and at first I was like is it some kind of VR thing can they be used as some kind of like VR control it's not that let me show you oh you know what this is a perfect time to introduce the box to you I feel like I'm showing you too many things at once uh this is the Box it comes with this thing which we'll come back to in a second but it's very similar to the switch box in the sense that there's like cutouts and stuff um not cutouts but like molds for where this stuff goes so this is it in closes up actually something that's neat there is a little cutout for the charging port we'll come to the we'll get to the ports in a second but there's a little holes you can plug up your your charging your USBC charging into it while it's in its case which is kind of neat uh but yeah that's the case and also there's a little dimpled cutout at the bottom of this thing that I asked them and like apparently you can stick the tops of the sticks like the joysticks these things pop off I'll just do real quick it's a little bit stiff but they pop off and you can get spares I guess or then maybe there might be something that comes in the retail package but that fits in there maybe for different kinds of uh tops if you have like different needs for different materials that you want for it but back to the controls so this thing came in the box and I was like what does that do so check this out check this out when you detach these things and you have your your little product there this thing the right controller has a switch on the bottom I shall bring it right up to the thing it's got a switch on the bottom that says off on one side and then FPS on the other side so normally you would have it in the off position and when it's there it just works as the regular right controller and the touchpad Works in a kind of very touch pad manner you can see me wiggling around the back there but when you put into the FPS position it drops into that thing now uh it becomes this like strangely functional vertical Mouse and look at that now now it's a mouse and I'm moving it around like a regular Mouse and at first it is very weird when I first connected it up I was like what am I looking at like how am I even supposed to use this but you pick it up you start moving it around and within like 30 seconds it just makes sense you're just like okay I think I I think I get how this works and when I use this now like I've been using this for a week at this point so I'm like very comfortable with it I I actually think I could maintain Master's rank in OverWatch on this mouse it would be tough I'm not going to say this is as good as a regular Mouse but it's very very good and the fact that this comes built into the system like with this little mouse holder thing but the fact that it's built into this product that was originally handheld right this didn't come when you first saw this you did not even recognize that this was a mouse it's a freaking Mouse that's connected to this handheld system it is wild and then the left controller it's like your W oh I was like what is going on uh it's missing its little knob I should put this back on but you use the controller like a wasd and the sorry use the left controller as wasd and then use the right controller as your mouse and it just works all right so this is just the training room in OverWatch 2 and using the left control you can move around just like you would with your wasd keys so you have your forwards backwards strafe left and right and this is very fluid this works the way that you would expect expected to but then the right controller has been turned into this mouse-like thing and you have your your left Mouse click you got your right Mouse click you have the movement exactly the way that you'd expect it to it is so strange how good this works with pre-production Hardware I can't stress that enough like this product was just announced and I was fortunate to be able to have early access to it but don't look at any of this with like you know this is the final production version it so isn't I was actually told that there's supposed to be some magnet system so that when you connect the right controller into this little dock thing or the holder thing that'll just hold it more securely because right now it's loose and sometimes it can just pop off a little more a little easily but it just works so well and the fact that all of this is built into a controller system is wild now I do wish the controllers would connect together like I wish there was some kind of mechanism or some kind of bracket that the left and right modules will be able to just click in and then you could play like almost like a regular console but there isn't anything like that quite yet the LED ring around the sticks those can be changed color with future software uh the buttons on the right so actually once I need to mention this these buttons and all the controls and whatever on the right controller are deactivated when it's in fps mode so this will only work as like the mouse thing when it's in uh FPS mode but then to switch it back to regular control mode so that the buttons and stuff work you gotta switch it over to off like the off position and then now it becomes well it can become if you give it a second okay there we go it took a while but that's the softer right it kicks in and then now you can use it like a regular uh pair of sticks um yeah so they don't connect the other thing I don't love are the actual d-pad buttons so the buttons themselves on the right these feel great I think they're very like if I had to describe what they're most similar to it's like an Xbox style uh these work fine the d-pad however is not my favorite so this has a very audible click when you click the different positions like and for one it's a little bit noisy but I also don't like that mechanism for the games that I play so if I play Street Fighter six with this thing it doesn't feel great I feel like a lot of the combos just don't connect the way that I'm used to using this d-pad but I think it's just a very subjective preferential thing some people like these d-pads I personally don't I like my d-pads like the silent kind of smoother mechanism like the stuff that you see on the steam deck these d-pads are a little more forgiving they're just a little bit softer they're still tactile but they're not like super loud in that sense uh same with the Ally like this has a uh it's got like that circular Xbox style but yeah the one on the legion go this is definitely more clicky and just like a stiffer feeling kind of d-pad now in terms of the ergonomics when this thing's all connected up it's comfortable to hold in your hand but there is something about the buttons on the back that feel a little bit strange so if you look at the I'm going to flip this around but it's going to be opposite right so this is being held by my left hand and this would be held by my right hand because this is upside down right now but if you'll notice these two buttons here so the um like the back buttons these are similar to what you would expect any kind of handheld consoles back buttons to be which is great like the ones on the left but on the right hand side these are just in a weird spot and I'm not sure if they had to do it like this because of the mouse buttons and the way they wanted to be able to be clicked when it's in Mouse mode but these don't feel great like when I'm in my right hand it's like you kind of have to hit them with the inner part of your knuckles instead of the kind of regular two-fingered positioning you see on the left hand side but the controls otherwise are pretty nice I did just notice that they had a software update and now the colors can be changed at least a certain degree I'm sure the retail version of this is going to be much more advanced I do want to talk about the stick tops like the grips of these these are hard plastic now I've used a bunch of different handheld devices where these are all just made of different materials and everyone has a different opinion on them I don't like the hard plastic I wish these things were just like a softer rubber I know those wear out pretty quick but yeah this doesn't feel as nice to me but they do come off and you can obviously replace them and swap them out as you so see fit um one other thing I've noticed having used this for a little bit the thing that really defines this product the feature that defines this entire product is actually the detachability of the left controller specifically the left controller because if I could detach the left controller of a steam deck or an Rog Ally I would be able to just connect up a Bluetooth mouse and just be able to play first person shooters on those devices as well but I can't and because the legion go can you can do this but it really is this left controller that makes it super special and then the right controller is just a real sweet bonus the fact that it can turn into a fully functional Mouse now in terms of accessories that Lenovo is offering I don't think that there's some kind of dock that they're doing just because the kickstand is just so robust and it just allows you to put it into so many different positions I think you can go like I don't know maybe 20 degrees no that's not 20 like 30 degrees flat and then obviously you stand it up right if you want but yeah it goes down far back and it's very very sturdy I can't stress that enough it's like yeah I really like this kickstand it's well done there is this one accessory that lenovo's making that's pretty neat so this is a pair of AR glasses and I've used a bunch of products like this before like they have the Rockets uh the in real glasses and you just plug them up to like steam decks and Nintendo switches whatever you want you just basically get a larger screen of the device projected right up to your face now uh I'm gonna look like a total derp with these things on but right now they're off right now uh so I can't see anything but when you plug it up to the device you get the screen so I'm now seeing the screen of whatever's on the legion go projected in front of my face uh and I would say that this pair of AR glasses is way more comfortable than the other stuff I've tried to think is because the material they're using there's like a lot of rubber that's going on in here uh they got like a rubber kind of like ear hook this makes it really comfortable for like long-term wear and they have interchangeable nose pads so this is something they're offering I don't know the pricing of this thing at all I don't know the pricing of any of this stuff at the filming at the time of filming this unfortunately but I feel like it's going to be competitive to the Ally it has to be now in terms of the hardware inside so this is running amd's Z1 extreme so similar to the kind of performance you would see with the other high-end handheld from Asus but this has faster Ram so I would imagine the performance would be a little bit better the screen resolution is also interesting so this is a higher resolution screen this is running a 2560 by 1600 display and I should also mention that this software is also Super Beta so don't judge it by that but when I first saw this resolution on the screen I was like okay that can't be good because these devices that run in Z1 extreme don't have an easy time powering a 1080p screen let alone a higher resolution screen but here's the magic of all this because it's 1600 like because you can have that 1600 to 800 you can get integer scaling on the screen so now when you down scale it to 1280 by 800 you get really nice crisp pixelation of stuff something that the Rog Ally cannot do very well and so if you are playing a demanding game let's say you're playing I don't know some AAA title cyberpunk and you want to have it with maximum frame rate you would go to 1280 by 800 and you'd have nice clean crisp pixels and you get the best possible frame rate but then if you want to play some kind of emulation game or some kind of 2D title that's just not demanding at all you can crank it back up to the 1600 resolution and now you have the best of both worlds and that is so smart at first like my first reaction was like oh my God that's too many pixels how they're going to power it but it allows you that flexibility which is what I think they're actually trying to go for now in terms of My overall thoughts on this product it's very early right it's early Hardware very early software but I feel like they're on they're on to something really cool here so my My overall take is that this is the first gaming handheld that really felt like it was built for gaming enthusiasts to take advantage of like obviously there's a lot of cool Hardware out there very powerful Hardware out there but because you can't play Shooters like first person shooters on any handheld gaming platform properly and this thing can like the reality is you're missing out on like 50 of the gaming Library out there if you can't play Shooters well on a handheld you just right you this thing can this has access to every single game out there it's really cool and because of that it's just like it's so awesome um one thing there's two USBC ports there's one on the top one on the bottom as well as the SD card there and the volume control now the bottom SD card slot I found that when it was in kickstand mode like it's kind of right at the front of the device at the bottom and when you have it in a kickstand position it's actually a little bit difficult sometimes to plug stuff up into that bottom one just because of the angle of the angle of that kickstand it just depends on how steep you have it but yeah otherwise pretty banging the battery is 49.2 Watt hours so about 15 maybe 20 bigger than the battery on the Ally uh you know what let's pop it open I haven't seen it yet let's take a look so I removed the six visible screws and the back plate just didn't come off all right so I got like a pry tool it's a lot more difficult to access than the steam deck and the Ally for sure unless again this is just the okay it's coming off it could just be the engineering sample but you know maybe they don't want me going in but we going in boys okay it's a black PCB this is a lot cleaner looking than I thought it would be uh single fan SSD is over here okay I don't see Ram like I'm assuming the ram was soldered on but I don't even have visual access to it I think these are speakers on the top that are right behind the screen the top of the screen yeah but yeah there you have it clean looking internals punch in there a little bit as you can see and then the uh back panel itself it's pretty thick like way thicker than I thought it'd be holy yeah this is like straight up laptop materials turned into a very portable gaming handheld [Music] foreign

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Length: 20min 8sec (1208 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 01 2023