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Lenovo has just announced the first licensed Steam OS handheld, and a short time with the device reveals a familiar experience.

Valve is making a notable shift with its portable gaming strategy as Lenovo debuted a new edition of its Legion Go

Lenovo's ordering page for the Windows 11 Legion Go S is currently hanging out with a "coming soon" banner, but having the page itself is a step in the right direction. More good news is that many models of the new Lenovo Legion Go S will be more affordable compared to the $749.99 price of the current Lenovo Legion Go.

Lenovo is trying an experiment. In May, it will officially become the very first company outside of Valve to ship a handheld gaming PC with the Steam Deck’s wonderfully pick-up-and-play SteamOS instead of Microsoft Windows. And at $499, it’ll be a true Steam Deck rival, joining it as one of the lower-priced PC handhelds you can buy.

SteamOS is slowly becoming an alternative to Windows for handheld gaming devices. After launching the Steam Deck with SteamOS, its own operating system,

Lenovo's Legion Go gaming handheld was one of the standout releases of 2024, and is arguably the best PC gaming handheld after the Steam Deck, but one thing has ultimately held it—and every other Windows-based handheld—back from truly dethroning the Steam Deck: Windows.

At CES 2025, Lenovo announced a brand new handheld PC, the Legion Go S, and it runs Valve’s premiere operating system. The Go S has SteamOS pre-installed, and features an 8-inch screen with variable refresh rate (VRR), Hall effect joysticks, adjustable trigger switches, and other alluring traits not found in any model of the Steam Deck.

Lenovo has finally announced a new line of Legion Go handheld PCs, with one that will come installed with SteamOS out of the box. The new model is called the Legion Go S, and it's the world's first handheld PC from a third-party manufacturer using Valve's operating system.

Lenovo has announced two new iterations on the Legion Go, a PC gaming handheld it released in October 2023. The Legion Go 2 will be a beefier—and likely pricier—version of Lenovo's first-generation device,