Logitech's cloud gaming handheld leaks with Android apps and Switch-like UI - The Verge

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Logitech’s caller unreality gaming handheld has leaked weeks aft the institution teased it was working connected the caller device. Logitech G and Tencent Games confirmed their plans for a dedicated handheld earlier this month, and present Evan Blass has tweeted pictures of the handheld which uncover entree to the Google Play store, alongside enactment for Xbox Cloud Gaming and Nvidia’s GeForce Now service.

The Logitech G Gaming Handheld looks astir the aforesaid size arsenic a Nintendo Switch, and it adjacent includes a Switch-like UI wherever you scroll done apps and games. One leaked representation shows Chrome and YouTube apps, alongside Xbox, Nvidia, and Steam icons. While Blass tweeted images of the handheld, Logitech was speedy to file a DMCA complaint to region them from Twitter (and frankincense corroborate the authenticity of the device).

The rear of the Logitech G Gaming Handheld. Image: Evan Blass (Twitter)

Google Play entree means this handheld should beryllium susceptible of moving the latest mobile games natively, alongside its absorption connected unreality gaming. Logitech ne'er mentioned enactment for Android earlier this month, choosing alternatively to absorption connected its enactment for aggregate unreality gaming services.

The achromatic handheld includes 2 off-set analog thumb sticks, a D-Pad, and Y, B, A, and X buttons. There are besides 4 buttons astatine the front: Logitech, home, menu, and a discourse paper button. There are besides 2 bumper buttons and 2 trigger buttons, overmuch similar astir modern controllers.

It’s not instantly wide from the leaked images however large the show connected the Logitech G Gaming Handheld is, but 1 representation reveals there’s a imaginable mute power and microSD paper enlargement slot.

The handheld has each the buttons you’d want. Image: Evan Blass (Twitter)

Logitech’s gaming handheld could beryllium 1 of the archetypal to usage Qualcomm’s caller G3x platform. Announced past year, the caller G3x spot is designed for Steam Deck-like oregon Switch-like handhelds, and it has an Adreno GPU susceptible of moving the latest mobile games. We’ve lone seen a Razer developer kit instrumentality truthful acold moving the G3x, implicit with a 6.65-inch OLED show that tin tally astatine 120Hz.

Either way, Logitech is promising a motorboat aboriginal this year. Logitech’s G Gaming Handheld leak comes months aft Valve released its Steam Deck, which has transformed PC gaming connected the go. Steam Deck supports unreality gaming services similar Stadia and Xbox Cloud Gaming, but there’s surely country for an Android alternate that tin besides tally unreality games and isn’t reliant connected your phone.

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