HIT OR MISS? Lenovo Legion Go HONEST Review...(a PS5 User’s POV) 

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The thumb cap can be removed from the right controller when it's used in FPS mode. Just need to pop it off. There's even a small cutout in the case to store it.

I had a steam deck, it was nice after i put windows on it. I lost my job and had to sell it to get my kid a bike on her birthday this summer. New job money saved and i am deciding between the ally or the Lenovo as a treat on my birthday nov 30th. These videos help alot

Appreciate your work and enthusiasm for this device. You helped me make my decision on purchasing one. Hopefully you’ll continue to cover the GO and inform us on any new drivers and updates that will help performance!

Was looking for a video exactly like this, thank you!

If you're a primary console user trying to get started on PC Gaming (handheld or desktop regardless) The learning curve is gonna be a little rough, but trust me, it's totally worth it Once you get used to the UI and software idiosyncrasies you won't be able to put it down I got a handheld PC (Steam Deck) months ago and it's become my main device ever since, I use it for streaming shows, browsing the internet, downloading and reading, and of course...playing anywhere

+1 for one of few reviewers giving honest opinion about the battery life.

this is what im looking about! thanks man for all the information

Nice video brother keep them videos coming and also if you ever want to give that go up I'd love to have it, you definitely convinced me to want one but times are rough but being able to see alot you use the device makes me feel good also, keep doing what you're doing you got this🙌🏿

For us who moved from a lifetime of PlayStation and this is our first PC ever not just a handheld, can we get a video explaining all the graphics settings and what do we need to change/adjust for general gaming and what’s needed to be changed for certain games to get the best performance out of this over both battery and plugged in? Since because of your enthusiasm and reviews I got one and I love it. But I’m so overwhelmed with how much I need to do/learn just to using it especially coming after 20 years of Sony PS plug n play.

Great review, I appreciate the honesty on all the good and the bad.

Awesome review, you covered almost all the things I was curious about. Looks like ill hold off for a little bit for updates, and then pick one up for myself! Just wishing they'd offer a 32gb version, but I can deal with the 16g

Great video man ,this looks like it feels better for bigger hands ,i wish best buy gets in stock again soon cuz they out already 😅

Good review, man. I will be getting one of these.this handheld is solid.

Awesome review man, I am looking to get this device. Hopefully it does eventually ship to South Africa at a decent price.

Very cool review. I like your personality and info was very useful

Good review, that's dope the future is now!

I was pretty much leaning towards the Go and this and a couple of other vids have helped me confirm my decision. Awesome video.

Great review and experience sharing ❤

I tried multiple units. The usb-c ports (both top and bottom ports) constantly dropped connection in all situations. If you download your games and don't plan to dock the system this isn't an issue. If however you wanna use a dock or try and install games from external SSD drives.. it's a no go. Returned it twice and then bought an ROG ally. No issues with the ally yet

Agreed, there is definitely some pain points with the initial onboarding, but when you finally cross that threshold it’s amazing! But that’s less of a Lenovo problem, and more of a Windows problem. Microsoft sucks with consumer software, they make things extremely difficult and user unfriendly

Crazy the ROG ally was shitted on for its lil bit of problems. But the legion go come out with a blizzard of problems but yet the legion go is praised and supported.

Very well done, honest review. You've earned a new subscriber.

The first honest review I've seen on Legion Go. Thanks a lot

Thanks for explaining that to the console folks. PC gaming is the thinking Mans way of gaming. People get offended by statements like this, but it's facts. But all of the answers are out there, you just gotta think, find them in forums, and you straight. I'm adoring my legion go. I got rid of my ally AND steam deck the moment my legion go got into my hands. Running the legion screen brightness on high, is MAD crazy. I get around 2 hours on performance mode playing Armored core. So much as the sound goes, there is a RU-vid video out there that gives a custom sound setting that goes hard. And lastly, I don't know about your system my friend, but my system does not, does NOT get hot at all. You might wanna switch that system out. No one has that issue... even on RU-vid. No one has that issue. Great system.

Awesome review man. I'm really thinking abou this for dual gaming/notetaker duty. Lately I've taken to connecting to my pc at home through parsec or moonlight when I'm out because my tablet gets waay better battery life compared to running apps locally. Have you tried anything like that yet for gaming? Curious how the battery life will be. Also how's the fan noise on quiet mode? Heard it might be too disruptive for a classroom or open office environment?

Thank you for that good honest review ♥

Fantastic review, i just ordered one after watching this. Wondering what tdp and power mode i should use for cloud gaming? and have you tested it at all in terms of battery life

Appreciate the honest review from a console user

I am planning on getting a L Go to use it as a family computer for the living room for productivity / home school stuff for my kids as well as a gaming pc that we’ll be able to take on the go, too.

My 19 y/o son just got his Legion and loves it. I have the rog ally. He updated the windows and the drivers and downloaded his games. It does require updating just like the rog ally. Once you have everything updated, it works flawlessly

With nearly 3000 games on Steam alone, Game Pass Ultimate etc. i will buy it. Hopefully it arrives at local store today.

Crazy how the Steam Deck isn't even in the conversation anymore in this space. Seems like every device now has more power, a bigger screen with a higher resolution, a bigger battery, 120hz-144hz refresh rate, better joysticks and triggers, etc. Not to mention that you can just launch steam in big picture mode and get the same "seamless" experience. Personally I'll return my steam deck and get this or the ROG Ally.

I think that rog ally is actually the best out there and this one is next and I can’t wait to grab it.. bro and your are right these things are hectic trying to set up and omg a lot of update every week lol that gets on your nerves.. bro watch that cod install crap because people are getting banned for no reason by Activision and a lot of people are waiting for them to fix the issue man. Nice video man

Awesome detail video bro, 😎 keep up the good work, that handheld is pretty cool, so many handhelds devices been made so hard to keep up with what is best to have lol 😂 god bless

Ayyyy this looks 🔥🔥🔥 that lil Gears of War clip looks crazy!

Excellent vid my man i just bought my legion go from microcenter but i havent opened it yet

Very good review I appreciate

I think those extra button can be use if you are playing Dota 2. Idk if you can play Dota 2 on this device, but Im sure those extra button will help a lot if I want to use like Invoker for example. Invoker needs like a lot of button skills to do combo.

Excellent review. How did you get around not having the drivers?

The rog ally is definitely better as long as you don't want the controllers to disconnect. 1080 native with vrr is way better than a bigger screen thats portrait. Technically it is a cheaper screen even though it's bigger.

Nice review. Im really tempted to get one. While i have an oled deck on the way,own ally and ayaneo 2, 32gb ram,2tb model. This is somethings a little different. Switch on LSD lol. Ill check buy one in jan/feb. Reason is, i buy a lot of tech second hand to save money. Mint condition ones. If ppl buy this for xmas, aint for them. Could be a few ppl competing to sell. £550 where id be happy at. Got a used quest 3 in mint for £490. Meta sells them for £630.

I buy the legion go yesterday and omg! Is incredible! ❤️🔥

This is gold! Thanks for the honest review I'm about to buy one and i know i will have to update and be frustated but I'll take the risk xd 😅

Took me a whole day of RU-vid videos figuring everything out. This is my first gaming PC but I love it. This thing plays games that look almost as good as my PS5.

Great video! I have a question , when you play Cod, do you have to mess around with the dead zone settings on the sticks? I’m not sure if mine was broken or not but when I was playing COD if I try to move the right stick slightly to the right, say when aiming or moving a little, input would not register unless I pressed almost half way in, making it almost impossible to aim correctly. This is a deal breaker for me so I’m hoping you can shine some light into this issue Thanks!

The Legion GO is a mess. Lenovo Legion Space is borderline useless, makes Armoury Crate look like a miracle in comparison. You can not reconfigure any of the controller buttons, sticks, etc. to anything you would really want. There is the touchpad but there is no right click or left click and you can not assign any of the button to be right click or left click, ..... wtf lenovo!?!? This make using the right stick, and right bumper/right trigger in desktop mode on the Ally for mouse looks like a genius implementation. Additionally whether if the 1 or 2 controller is attached changes how the controller behaves. The best thing about the detachable controllers is that you can leave the pointless non-configurable controllers at home, get the weight saving and use it like a small tablet. The on screen performance monitor fails to stay on screen, just try it with BG3, you can not see it anymore. The faster memory is not getting you better fps in 2077. Stupid AMD software keeps crying about the wrong edition and you just can not pull up the AMD Adrenalin UI. The FPS mode is a gimmick, you can not play competitively against someone using a real gaming mouse (think G502, G pro, Deathadder, EC2 etc.). A really serious problem that plagues the Legion GO is that it is actually a portrait screen. And when it shows it is nasty and make the whole thing feel half baked. Old games, dosbox stuff will have all sorts of fit with this that would never be an issue on the ROG Ally. WTF is with the portrait screen anyways?! You launch a linux installer, or Acronis, or anything else text based direct booting some liveCD iso and this crap is just going to mess with you. Annoying as F!@$%!!! On top of it all the SSD run way too hot, temps while gaming using the max power tdp profile cause the SSD to hit 75C or higher, seriously?! In contrast the SSD in the ROG Ally is still a hair below 60C. The thing that was suppose to be the saving grace, the TB4 E-GPU, that is so hit and miss, it works with some and fails with others, just blue screens over and over. I really want to like the Lenovo Legion GO, but it feels at this time to be really half baked. It also just feels heavy. It its best mode of use is without the controllers and having it stand on its own kick stand, and with whatever kb/mouse and controller you would really want. And the final insult is that Legion Go Space puts the "store front" front and center, that is just obnoxious. It is trying to sell you crap all the time, whereas the Amoury Crate puts your game library front and center.

The rog ally ryzen z1 surprisingly runs mw2 and mw3 very smoothly. Im super suprised. I cant imagine what this can do

This is the one thanks for the review

One of the strengths of the Steam Deck is that I feel like it is a very seamless experience for a console player; the operating system functions very naturally like a console UI and shows you all your games, has a store, and most games work on launch for me. Of course, one of the weaknesses is you can't even play Call of Duty on SteamOS, which means you'd have to install Windows which negates all of that LOL

Congrats for the excelent chanel !!! I have a few problems whit my Legion Go, and i need an advice if is posible. Thanks 1. Scaling issues and Blurry Text in 900p resolution. Other res works superb whit a clear image. 2. The OS frezee when tranfering files on the unit for a few miliseconds. 3. Battlenet in asian language in their console interface. Many thanks for your help.

You forgot to mention rog ally’s screen while smaller is more color accurate and vibrant and vrr makes all games feel less stuttering.

Just got mine, best thing I ever bought. You can charge the device with your device inside the case. There is a flap you pull up for access to the USB-C port

Wow 😯 the PlayStation portal looks awesome 🤩

Extremely high quality video and review!!

Great review bro bro 💪

The price is what got me. Finally a direct competitor to the steam deck. Im glad i waited before jumping on all the other devices that popped up after the deck dropped. Those $1200 systems were not competitive to the deck.

Hey man, great review. I'm a console player (Xbox and Ps5) and i have been wanting to try the whole PC thing. I'm considering the Legion Go to kinda try to kill two birds with one stone: a big ass handheld for my travels and a 'pc' at home with a monitor and a keyboard. Do you think that could work? I mean, could the Legion Go be considered a decent docked gaming PC kinda on par with a medium-budget full blown PC? Thanks so much in advance!

How does the wake up work? if you have a game on and is on the menu screen, what happens if you press the power button and then turn the GO back on? does it boot up the game back to where it was?

Sometimes simple is better. Ally ftw :)

Hello from Spain! What is the resolution and graphic settings you used for Gears of War? Thanks!

The speaker is actually really loud if you adjust the settings. The default ones are terrible but now mine is louder than my steam deck.

If their a question I might ask , which hand held PC is better. The steam deck or the Lenovo legion go ? I do have a steam deck and it's a pretty good device but I was planning to buy a hand held PC for my older brother, it might be his first hand held and I was wondering which one would he started, should he started The hand held PC?

i have the steam decl oled 526gb and i also just bought this one i get it in two days and i will see which one i like the most!

Kool vid!! thinking of sending mine back... not sure how ur managing to aim on COD,, the analogs are terrible on mine!! I cant aim at shit!! main reason I'm sending it back :?

Thank you for the review my man! Definitely getting one in a couple of months after it gets optimized

So im thinking of getting a handheld which one should i go for the rog ally, steam deck or the legion go ? I need help lmao

Just sad that they rather go for bigger battery than cooling and ssd size. It was a miss for me...despite that i love the concept they introduce to market.

I curious if Destiny 2 can play Lenovo Legion Go can running game well?

the screen is over all worse on the go it is portrait and that sucks alot more then people think that means more work around for older api games like Vulcan and dx7 8 9 and also np vrr and you look on youtube and see the difference it makes at lower fps for ya the ally mighr lose by 3 frames here and there it makes up for it in vrr aka smoothness at lower fps 45 feels like 60 on the ally its something you need to try to understand also the screem is to high res scaling above 800p falls off really bad on the legion go but besides that i think its great and cant wait for more!!

never lay down your go flat without controllers attached while gaming. you will stop the airflow and cook your device. always use the kickstand when playing with controllers detached

In the future will this be able to play gta6? I haven’t brought a hand held gaming portable yet. I know petty much nothing about system, don’t know which one to buy either Lenovo, ally or steam deck? Mostly for gaming.

I’ve been on the fence with getting this device but I have also been thinking about getting a PS5. I’ll be new to pc entirely, but am willing to learn… I don’t know which to get . A new handheld or a ps5?? Please help thank you

Out of all the problems with these things I’m caught between win gdp 4 and the legion go The legion has software issues (which should go away due to patches) Win gdp is already set up But they both apparently have really bad issues with dead zones Idk which has more negatives

OK. I've seen many videos about the Go and the speakers. What baffles me is for people who know about and use electronics, you all seem to forget that this device had TOP firing speakers. The Ally and the Deck have FRONT facing speakers. Top firing speakers will never sound as good as front firing because the sound is coming at you. Could the speakers be better? Maybe. But there will always be a difference in sound from speakers that face up versus front facing.

Overheating is a serious issue, and you just ignore it because you're held at gunpoint.

Do I need the Xbox game pass to use it, or just to play Xbox games? Also does the steam account require me to have a paid subscription? Like do I need to pay for a subscription to use this device?

Download FX sound it’ll make 50% sound so loud.

The Thumb joy stick can be removed and has a little area in the case to store them.

Honest review

I need a portable pc handheld with an oled screen

They need to make a handheld with more power that is meant to run wired only. with a little battery inside for max 30 mins of play.

Gears of War all I wanna play right now and I don’t wanna hook up my Xbox again. I got my Ps5 controlling my monitor lol

Change the eq settings for the sound, it’s a HUGE difference.

I have legion go .. recommended

how many fps do you have in warzone?

How does this hold up against the Onexplayer

Is this better than the OLED steam deck it has a 1000 brightness and a 8 hour battery life

Mine should be in today

How’s the fan noise and portability compared to rog ally ?

My battery expanded after charging it with a 140watt quick charger and broke the plastic off the back. The thing is garbage.

which fps game was being played at 12:22?

nobody is gonna use fps mode, let's be honest. It's a gimmick that you'll try once on the first day you unpack the thing. Same with the detachable controllers. I went with the Ally for those reasons, incredible handheld.

I wanna install world of Warcraft on this when I get one

Has anyone tested sonic frontiers? I’m having issues running it stable!

What would be good if they release same joycons with less buttons like the switch does with theirs

How about the dead zone on the sticks? Mine are terrible can’t play any games at all….the deadzone is basically 80% of the sticks

The only way this will be successful is if they release better aftermarket joycons. I have both ally and the legion... And I fell back in love with the ally because it's pretty straight forward, what you see is what you get, especially with the buttons. Lenovo just tried to pack so much crap into this system.

Wow this man looks just like UFC fighter Kevin Holland!

I only got 3 months game pass…..I’m in the uk