Earlier this month, renders of the alleged Lenovo Legion S were leaked by Windows Central. Then, a few days ago, prominent leakster, Evan Blass (@evleaks), posted more solid-looking and clear images, with one render clearly showing a dedicated Steam button situated at the top-left of the display.
While still unconfirmed, the presence of the dedicated Steam button also comes with the rumour and possibility that the Legion Go S is going to be the first non-Valve, third party SteamOS gaming handheld, besides the Steam Deck. Rather, it sounds like Lenovo could release a variant of the console running on said OS.
We say this because, if you look at the Glacier White render of the Legion Go S, that version of the console shows the same button with the Legion symbol, not the Steam symbol. This all lines up with earlier reports of Valve’s supposed efforts to make SteamOS more widely available on other gaming handhelds and systems, and not just its Steam Deck.
As we reported previously, the Legion Go S is expected to run on the AMD Ryzen Z2G chipset, one of three of the expected Z2 variants, and the lowest-tier on the list. Specs-wise, the chipset is believed to be based on the older Rembrandt architecture, using Zen3+ CPU cores and the older RDNA2 GPU architecture.
On a related note, this isn’t the first time Valve has walked down this route. More than a decade ago, the office of Lord Gaben attempted to woo PC manufacturers to join its Linux-based Steam Machines project but that fell through. Things are obviously looking very different now, with the Steam Deck and Proton proving to be extremely successful.
(Source: Evan Blass via X, The Verge, Videocardz)
