Lenovo and Valve waving new handheld gaming devices at CES

Lenovo's Legion range has been kicking around for a few years now, with laptops and handhelds for the Windows gaming market. By inviting Valve to their big show at 2025's launch mega-event CES, it looks like a SteamOS version is on the way, with new innards powered by another guest, AMD, at an event called,  "Lenovo Legion x AMD: The Future of Gaming Handhelds.”

Which is kind of navel-gazing given the new models tipping up in the last month alone including the MSI  Claw, restyled Steam Decks, and the latest high-end Ayaneo models. And it happily ignores the multi-million selling Switch and PlayStation Portal, and their successors. They will wipe the floor with any sales figures from the likes of Alienware, ASUS Rog and other players who seem to be doing this for the kudos, rather than mass market. 

Update: Images are already out c/o notorious leaker Evan Blass showing off a curvier device... 

Adding a little gusto to proceedings, Jason Ronald, the head of Microsoft's next-generation Xbox efforts including their handheld will be along for the show. Which is a nice little cabal of gaming engineering talent who wouldn't be turning up unless something biggish was on show. 

And let's face it, the current Lenovo Legion Go is an unattractive brick of a device, overpriced at around £650, and dating back to 2023, so it definitely needs an upgrade. 

All will be revealed in a few weeks, and I'm more than prepared to be underwhelmed, whatever the power inside, unless it really offers a change to the market dynamics, which it won't.