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Best Buy has
8" Legion Go S Handheld Gaming System (SteamOS, 83N6000GUS), as configured below, on sale for
$649.99. Select free store pickup where stock permits; otherwise,
shipping is free.
- Note: Availability for pickup may vary by location.
Thanks to Community Member
N3RD_01 for sharing this deal.
Specs:
- 8" 1920 x 1200 (WUXGA) IPS Touchscreen 120Hz Display
- AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme 3.3GHz Processor
- 32GB LPDDR5X-7500 Onboard RAM
- 1TB M.2 2242 PCIe 4.0x4 NVMe Solid State Drive
- AMD Radeon Graphics
- 2x2 Wi-Fi 6E 802.11ax + Bluetooth 5.3
- microSD Memory Card Reader
- SteamOS
- 1.62 lbs (~735 g)
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A tablet+bluetooth for joysticks and controls is not the same as a full handheld device.
This is a complete device that you can pick up and play with, then put away. It is EXTREMELY more portable.
Why would you want to hack together something and then use a TV or a monitor to display it? The whole point is that it's portable and compact.
This isn't a solution to replace PC gaming or console gaming. So you need to stop looking it through that type of lens.
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You can literally game all day with it.
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Moving from 16GB to 24GB is a big improvement for UE5 games like Star Wars Outlaws, in particular, as it's VRAM and system RAM hungry, and will happily gobble up 8GB allocated to the GPU, and most of the remaining 16GB system RAM. However, I'm not aware of any other games that have that kind of demand, so YMMV. An open-box or used Ally X will set you back around $600-$700, so this new Legion Go S is definitely a good price.
The 32GB in this Legion Go S is more than adequate for 99% of gaming situations outside some kind of massively modded game that gobbles system memory, like Skyrim SE with a billion mods. My final vote goes to this Legion Go S because it natively supports SteamOS, which is still the preferred PC gaming OS unless you play things that require kernel-level anti-cheat. That's basically competitive shooters, currently. (last I looked, Rainbow Six Siege, Apex Legends, Fortnite, most modern CoD games, Valorant, etc) If you prefer or require Windows on the handheld, I have a suspicion this doesn't include a Windows 11 license, so if you loaded Windows onto it, you'd either have to deal with the watermark or buy a copy of Win11.
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