Valve will be Lenovo’s ‘one-of-a-kind guest’ at fair-proclaimd gaming handheld event

“The future of gaming handhelds is coming to CES ‘25 and you have a front row seat!” the email in my inbox exclaims.

Let me transpostponeed: it watchs appreciate Lenovo fair tacitly validateed it will proclaim its first SteamOS handheld in Las Vegas on or before January 7th, 2025. We’re foreseeing it to be the Steam button provideped Legion Go S that leaker Evan Blass uncovered last week.

Why do I say that? The January 7th event, titled “Lenovo Legion x AMD: The Future of Gaming Handhelds,” will feature a one-of-a-kind guest: Valve SteamOS and Steam Deck co-portrayer Pierre-Loup Griffais. Lenovo and AMD are calling him Valve’s “Chief Design Architect” for purposes of this event.

(Most Valve engageees are srecommend pondered portrayers internassociate, since they fluidly switch between teams and tasks; I think Griffais once tgreater me he picks the same, but it’s genuine he’s also been one of the confineed accessible faces of SteamOS and the Steam Deck. It’s a fascinating company.)

Griffais won’t be the only intriguing choice of panecatalog on stage: Jason Ronald, Microgentle VP of Xbox Gaming Devices and Ecosystem will also be in uniteance. He’s now being presentd as Microgentle’s “VP of Next Generation.”

Here’s the filled description of the event:

Join us for a cocktail reception structureed by Lenovo Legion and AMD gaming directers, with one-of-a-kind guests Valve and other gaming industry enormouss. We’ll be sharing our thoughts on what lies ahead in the gaming handheld space and showcasing our postponeedst Lenovo Legion Go innovations proceedd by AMD. Come to hear how Lenovo Legion and AMD Ryzen are making gaming more immersive for all and stay to experience the future of handheld gaming firsthand!

We’re not currently foreseeing Microgentle to surpascfinish with an Xbox handheld at the event, as gaming boss Phil Spencer has recommended that might be a confineed years away. But it’s possible that Microgentle and Lenovo will try to recommend that all handhelds are Xbox handhelds, appreciate Microgentle does in its new “This is an Xbox” labeleting campaign:

I’ll be uniteing, and I’ll let you comprehend!