Logitech is hosting an lawsuit today, during which it's revealing immoderate caller products for gamers and streamers. Details connected 1 of those leaked successful beforehand arsenic a preorder leafage for the Logitech G Cloud Gaming Handheld went live connected Amazon Canada a spot early. The institution has present officially unveiled the device.

According to the listing, which was spotted by Lbabinz connected Twitter, the Cloud Gaming Handheld volition get connected October 18th and outgo $400 CAD. Logitech's property materials, connected the different hand, accidental the merchandise volition vessel adjacent month. The strategy volition besides be disposable from Amazon successful the US, wherever it costs $350 USD, oregon $300 if you preorder. That's reasonably pricey for a dedicated unreality gaming handheld, particularly considering that a Nintendo Switch OLED is the aforesaid terms (and tin beryllium jailbroken to tally unreality gaming services).

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The specs and plan align with leaked details from precocious August. You'll beryllium capable to watercourse games successful 1080p astatine up to 60 frames per 2nd connected the seven-inch, 450-nit touchscreen. The handheld, which is simply a customized Android tablet housed wrong a controller unit, offers haptic feedback, gyroscope controls and remappable buttons. It has the inputs you'd expect, including a D-pad, look buttons, dual thumbsticks, bumpers and triggers, on with enactment buttons connected some sides, a G fastener and a Home button.

Because you'll beryllium streaming games for the astir part, the Cloud Gaming Handheld doesn't necessitate a ton of processing power. That's 1 apt crushed wherefore Logitech has been capable to bounds the value to 463g, oregon conscionable implicit a pound. For comparison, the Nintendo Switch weighs 0.88 pounds (398g) erstwhile the Joy-Cons are attached and the Steam Deck weighs astir 1.5 pounds (669g).

The instrumentality runs connected an octo-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G. It has 4GB of LPDDR4x RAM and 64GB of storage, which is expandable done a microSD slot. Logitech claims the artillery volition tally for up to 12 hours connected a azygous charge. If the power's off, it should afloat recharge successful astir 2.5 hours done a USB-C cable.

There are stereo speakers and a stereo microphone, which offers echo canceling and sound suppression. In addition, the instrumentality has Bluetooth 5.1 and USB-C headphone support, arsenic good as, thankfully, a 3.5mm headphone jack.

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Logitech and Tencent (who built the instrumentality together) collaborated with Microsoft and NVIDIA to guarantee there's autochthonal enactment for Xbox Cloud Gaming and GeForce Now. You'll beryllium capable to usage the Steam Link app to play games from your PC remotely, portion the Xbox app supports distant play from consoles. Logitech notes that users volition beryllium capable to download apps from the Google Play Store. So, you should beryllium capable to entree the likes of Google Stadia and Amazon Luna, arsenic good arsenic societal media apps, Android games and streaming video services specified arsenic YouTube and Netflix (you tin usage the instrumentality successful tablet mode).

“What we wanted to bash was situation ourselves to physique a instrumentality that was perfectly optimized for unreality gaming," Ujesh Desai, vice president and wide manager of Logitech Gaming, said successful a statement. "This meant precision controls – akin to a high-end Xbox controller – a ample HD screen, astonishing artillery beingness and lightweight plan truthful players tin bask agelong gaming sessions, without immoderate compromises.”

Update 12:12 PM ET: Added much details from Logitech.