So why is it that apparently Lenovo has an OLED VRR screen on the Legion Go 2 if it’s impossible to do?
mrmivo
VRR and OLED aren’t mutually exclusive. The Legion Go 2 features both.
wisperingdeth
I get it, but I’m done with grey blacks and edge bleed, which can both be very distracting in a dimly lit room. Steam Deck OLED looked fantastic, as does my G14 OLED laptop. Never going back to LCD.
wicktus
At this price I would appreciate having both, some manufacturers are starting to do so
At least let players choose, they have multiple skus with different ryzen and ram configuration, they could add an oled Sku like Valve did
mightymoksha
For context:
>*”We’ve gone hard on OLED with our desktop monitors. It is no secret that we love OLED at ROG, right? But on the Ally, the calculus is different. We talked about this in more detail last year in our Q&A and so I won’t go quite as deep today, but we’re in a similar boat. We did look at OLED again this year. We did some R&D and prototyping with OLED, but it’s still not where we want it to be when you factor VRR into the mix and we aren’t willing to give up VRR. I’ll draw that line in the sand right now. I am of the opinion that if a display doesn’t have variable refresh rate, it’s not a gaming display in the year 2025 as far as I’m concerned, right? That’s a must-have feature, and OLED with VRR right now draws significantly more power than the LCD that we’re currently using on the Ally and it costs more.*
>*When we look at what people are buying in the handheld market right now, both in terms of the sales of our devices and what we see from competitors, it’s pretty clear what price bands people are willing to buy a device like this in, because remember, it’s a secondary device for a lot of people. It’s not their primary device. I see a lot of people in feedback saying that they want this exact thing. They say, “I don’t want to pay an arm and a leg for this.” Well, yeah, we don’t want that*
*either. That’s why we’re trying to avoid having it cost an arm and a leg by not putting things in that the vast majority of users don’t need. We’re trying to hit a reasonable price point on these.*
>*That’s all I’ll say about price. You have to align your expectations with the market and what we’re doing here. Adding 32GB, OLED, Z2 Extreme, and all of those extra bells and whistles would cost a lot more than the price bracket you guys are used to on the Ally, and the vast majority of users are not willing to pay that kind of price.”*
Honey-Gleam09
Guess it’s time to upgrade my graphics card… again
PeachySwoon0923
Quality over speed, always. For the love of gaming, never compromise
JeffZoR1337
Honestly wish they did, oled is absolutely incredible. But even if they didn’t want to, that’s fine… I just really wish the screen was a bit larger. 7 Is just too small for me, especially if they’re pushing such solid resolution. Other than that, the xbox ally x looks like the most desirable handheld for me personally.
Accomplished-Web7962
899$ ?
Little_Ad2062
And I’m not willing to give up €1000 for a handheld with an LCD screen when Steam Deck OLED and Odin 2 Portal literally exist and I can get both for less money than this.
Ph0enixes
That will cost what, $899?
superman_king
Weird to call this device an Xbox when it can’t even play Xbox games.
For example – College Football 25 (only popular in the U.S.) sold 3 million copies on day 1. If you bought this game on Xbox, your new fancy “play anywhere” handheld Xbox, can’t play it.
This is one example of many.
Also, since this cannot run native Xbox API / games, it will be full of broken PC ports with shader compilation stutter as Windows has 0 fossilize support.
favdulce
The best approach to this is to offer both. If the OLED costs more, then so be it. I can upgrade my own storage and the ram doesn’t need to be that high. I’d much rather have the only upgrades for more money be the screen and/or cpu. Problem is that storage and ram is probably such a high margin upgrade that they’d never not do it
17 Comments
Good for them. VRR >>>>>>>> oled
So why is it that apparently Lenovo has an OLED VRR screen on the Legion Go 2 if it’s impossible to do?
VRR and OLED aren’t mutually exclusive. The Legion Go 2 features both.
I get it, but I’m done with grey blacks and edge bleed, which can both be very distracting in a dimly lit room. Steam Deck OLED looked fantastic, as does my G14 OLED laptop. Never going back to LCD.
At this price I would appreciate having both, some manufacturers are starting to do so
At least let players choose, they have multiple skus with different ryzen and ram configuration, they could add an oled Sku like Valve did
For context:
>*”We’ve gone hard on OLED with our desktop monitors. It is no secret that we love OLED at ROG, right? But on the Ally, the calculus is different. We talked about this in more detail last year in our Q&A and so I won’t go quite as deep today, but we’re in a similar boat. We did look at OLED again this year. We did some R&D and prototyping with OLED, but it’s still not where we want it to be when you factor VRR into the mix and we aren’t willing to give up VRR. I’ll draw that line in the sand right now. I am of the opinion that if a display doesn’t have variable refresh rate, it’s not a gaming display in the year 2025 as far as I’m concerned, right? That’s a must-have feature, and OLED with VRR right now draws significantly more power than the LCD that we’re currently using on the Ally and it costs more.*
>*When we look at what people are buying in the handheld market right now, both in terms of the sales of our devices and what we see from competitors, it’s pretty clear what price bands people are willing to buy a device like this in, because remember, it’s a secondary device for a lot of people. It’s not their primary device. I see a lot of people in feedback saying that they want this exact thing. They say, “I don’t want to pay an arm and a leg for this.” Well, yeah, we don’t want that*
*either. That’s why we’re trying to avoid having it cost an arm and a leg by not putting things in that the vast majority of users don’t need. We’re trying to hit a reasonable price point on these.*
>*That’s all I’ll say about price. You have to align your expectations with the market and what we’re doing here. Adding 32GB, OLED, Z2 Extreme, and all of those extra bells and whistles would cost a lot more than the price bracket you guys are used to on the Ally, and the vast majority of users are not willing to pay that kind of price.”*
Guess it’s time to upgrade my graphics card… again
Quality over speed, always. For the love of gaming, never compromise
Honestly wish they did, oled is absolutely incredible. But even if they didn’t want to, that’s fine… I just really wish the screen was a bit larger. 7 Is just too small for me, especially if they’re pushing such solid resolution. Other than that, the xbox ally x looks like the most desirable handheld for me personally.
899$ ?
And I’m not willing to give up €1000 for a handheld with an LCD screen when Steam Deck OLED and Odin 2 Portal literally exist and I can get both for less money than this.
That will cost what, $899?
Weird to call this device an Xbox when it can’t even play Xbox games.
For example – College Football 25 (only popular in the U.S.) sold 3 million copies on day 1. If you bought this game on Xbox, your new fancy “play anywhere” handheld Xbox, can’t play it.
This is one example of many.
Also, since this cannot run native Xbox API / games, it will be full of broken PC ports with shader compilation stutter as Windows has 0 fossilize support.
The best approach to this is to offer both. If the OLED costs more, then so be it. I can upgrade my own storage and the ram doesn’t need to be that high. I’d much rather have the only upgrades for more money be the screen and/or cpu. Problem is that storage and ram is probably such a high margin upgrade that they’d never not do it
OLED is overrated imo.
But I was told Nintendo is being cheap and greed?
“The children yearn for input lag”