While we're still waiting on the Steam Deck, and it appears that Alienware's Concept UFO has vanished into the ether, it appears that Razer has its handheld on the way, according to leaked slides.
Some slides from Qualcomm and spotted by VideoCardz specify a Snapdragon G3x portable development kit, which can supposedly "play your games." The device reportedly sports a 120Hz HDR OLED display, a 6000mAh battery, and even supports 5G. If it is real, it would be an amazing way to play online games on the go.
It is not known exactly what operating system this SDK is running on, whether it is Windows or Android, it is not clear which part of its library would be supported natively on the device. On the other hand, because it supports 5G, it would be ideal for services like Xbox Games Pass and Nvidia GeForce Now. KitGuru suggests that the device will run on Android, but nothing in the leaked slides confirms this, with what is on hold.
It is also not known whether this device will exist or not. We have seen so many devices like this in its early days from so many different companies, and none of them are free on the market today. It could well be a game-building kit for Qualcomm's new Snapdragon SoC, which seems like a pretty mind-boggling enhancement to games, if that's real.
Either way, it's another step in an industry-wide trend to try to make niche handheld gaming computers like Onexplayer mainstream. Steam Deck is probably the closest we have, but we will have to wait and see.
The Switch, but transforming it into a PC
It's pretty obvious why companies are suddenly struggling to launch gaming laptops, and that's the Nintendo Switch. I'm not sure why it took so long, especially with the success of handheld devices like the 3DS, but much of it is technology.
Back at CES two thousand and twenty, Dell showed us the Alienware Concept UFO, which was in the Ice Lake days and when Xe graphics first appeared. Now that we've seen how good Xe graphics can be, these gaming laptops are gradually going to become more possible over time.
But it's not even just Xe graphics. Remember the 35th Gen Intel Tiger Lake H15 processors? That's what powers gaming laptops like the Asus TUF Dash FXNUMX, and if paired with a low-power reserved GPU like the Nvidia GeForce RTX XNUMX, we could see one of those handhelds with real-world performance. gaming laptop.
Of course, battery life would surely be ruined, since all the cooling that should go to a handheld-sized machine wouldn't leave much room for a large battery, but technology comes to the fore. on a road like this it could be a real possibility.
After all, even Nintendo Switch uses an Nvidia Tegra SoC, which is not that far from the Ryzen / Radeon solution that Valve uses. It's only a matter of time before these gaming laptops are nothing more than an amusing little term that we just flabbergasted throughout CES.
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