Is This The Future Of Handheld Gaming?

CES has been a dream for the handheld gaming space with more announcements than we could ever imagine. We take a deep dive in today's 128KB podcast, looking at the biggest news from Steam OS, Lenovo Legion Go 2 to Xbox OS and more...
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[@pavelzuravliov2248]

I think is generation thing. We (30+) grow up with PC in a corner , today 5-7 year olds are with iPads, so for them handhelds are next step in gaming setup

[@deluge6479]

We also grew up with handhelds... It's not a new phenomenon lol

[@TheInfiniteNine]

Some of us grew up with a mixture of pc, console, and handheld

[@scottwood1533]

whoooohoooo pod cast time :-)

[@NinnCozyGaming]

Thanks

[@128KB]

Thank you so much for the support!

[@LordMaxed]

Fun fact 128kb: The Acer nitro blaze series 11 inch and 7 inch are rebranded Chinese pc handhelds that already exist. Tencent is making the Sunday Dragon pc handheld 11 inch and it’s literally the same design. It’s so ridiculous that Acer was supposed to be this budget windows pc handheld king and they just lazily dropped the ball here

[@128KB]

Wow!! Yeah they really missed the mark on it, and what they should be in the market. There’s totally space for a cheaper windows based handheld that they could’ve sat in.

[@LordMaxed]

@128kb seriously, in the laptop market Acer is the budget option with fairly decent hardware. I expected that for of handhelds from them and its like they just dropped the ball here. It’s so odd

[@SSSDarkgaming]

Do you still rec ally x over the legion go s windows and legion go 2?

[@128KB]

@@SSSDarkgaming ALLY X over Go S, Go 2 over ALLY X, in terms of hardware at least

[@LemonkneeFresh]

It’ll come down to what you are willing to spend and wait for. These new hand helds are months out where the ally x is here now. The newer Z2E chips will have between 15-30% more fps (on average probably 17-20%) but will probably cost $100-200 more then the ally x is now. If you can find a used ally x for between $500-600 that would probably be a better deal.

[@Media4Everyday]

Yesssss Podcast Andy!!!! The best kind 😊 glad youre feeling better. Omg!! Parappa the rapper 😂 old school! I know what you mean about boring ganes. U have to have sone of those. Im glad people are getting back into some single player ganes more lately.

[@rhoadeswr1]

When a valve rep was asked about the SD 2 he said it was rheir number one project so there will definitely be a SD 2.

[@rhoadeswr1]

This was in one if the interviews i saw.

[@128KB]

I'll be really excited to see what the SD2 brings.

[@pixels_2124]

It was in a PC World interview, but on top of the SD2, they're developing other hardware as well.

[@TPepp299]

For the ALLY and thunderbolt. You can buy the thunderbolt controller from Intel, similar to what Apple does with their laptops. They can use thunderbolt without needing the Intel CPU. In theory you can still keep the ally with the Z2E and still have thunderbolt 5

[@Spencerwalker21]

The marketing was so bad that tech review channels said that the base 499 steam os model had a z1e in it 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@128KB]

🤣🤣 we were trying to follow the release and everyone was saying different things. Bit of a mess

[@gp63]

I was playing on my Legion Go last night and I just happened to browse my achievement history on the Xbox app, going all the way back to the early days of the 360. Microsoft really needs to allow you to play your 'console' games on a capable PC device. Technically I don't know how that works, I guess in some kind of virtual machine, but with them de-emphasizing the hardware they need to make provisions for your old console digital games.

[@128KB]

@@gp63 so much yes

[@RavenTeamCharlie]

I think a PC handheld that has windows as its desktop experience and the Xbox console UI as its portable UI / experience. Keep it open as PCs normally are so you can get all the launchers(also make those launchers launchable from that portable UI) but on top of that if they can find a way to allow Xbox console users to access their libraries (not just the play anywhere games) from that device (as you said) I think this device would do so well.

[@Spencerwalker21]

1:16:00 only defense for the old Asus proprietary egpu was the open standards had crap bandwidth issues.

[@128KB]

Very true!

[@Captain-Chats]

I’m tempted to get the legion Go S just for the bigger screen alone. I have an ally x and I know it’s more powerful but the 7 inch screen is a struggle at times. As I get older those eyes are getting worse As for GPU’s currently have a 4080, I’d like to see raw performance between that and the 5080 but I don’t think it’s going to be that much of a gap to warrant an upgrade. Most of the new features will be coming to 40 series cards any ways Can’t wait for the switch, absolutely love F-Zero it’s about time it came back

[@From_the_mil]

Thoughts on MSI claw 8?

[@joeschmoe5009]

Do you guys know that GPD has the G1 egpu you could have been using instead of building the e-gpu you did? Or instead of thinking of getting asus'

[@128KB]

@@joeschmoe5009 we do know indeed. That's AMD though, so means side loading drivers on the ALLY X, hassle. We wanted Nvidia for better compatibility and we built using the UT3G, which uses the asmedia controller and has the lowest bandwidth loss.

[@joeschmoe5009]

@128KB o right. Duh, makes sense! 🤦‍♂️🤣

[@johnwebsterification]

An iPhone costs 10 dollars to make. They are making a profit for sure. It's not like steam is going to deny these claims of loss leader.

[@NinnCozyGaming]

Thumbnails need to be different guys , its dubble confuus 😢 and we miss them 😢

[@NinnCozyGaming]

Maybe it’s just me im old, I cant see the difference. 😂

[@128KB]

There's a big "PODCAST" text stamp in the bottom right of the thumbnails now, we found thumbnails with us in them actually got less engagement than ones like this! Keep an eye out for the podcast text in the bottom right, AJ's News videos will also have a "NEWS" stamp in the bottom right when he does his.

[@djfahreal7504]

I feel like both guys are high or something

[@128KB]

High on CES hype 🤣

[@umkhalid3526]

They really need to grow up

[@128KB]

@@umkhalid3526 you're only as old as you act and I have no intention of becoming old and boring 😘

[@andyackerman7123]

@@128KBtrust me… I tried old and boring… it sucks

[@BlueCollaredGrit]

You sound miserable grandpa 😂