A year later, Lenovo’s Legion Go is getting its own official dock and controller wedge
The Lenovo Legion Go from its most distinctive angle. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge
It’s not clear if Lenovo’s Legion Go handheld gaming PC was a success after its initial rough start last fall and its middling experience by the time I reviewed it this spring — but Lenovo is pushing forward. Not only is it planning a successor, possibly a smaller seven-inch one, but it’s also just revealed an array of new accessories for the console.
Images: Lenovo
The Legion Go’s new dock, joystick caps, carry case, and “charging connector” gamepad wedge.
The Legion Go will get its own official $65 USB-C dock this August — and in October, a full year after launch, you’ll be able to buy a $50 wedge-shaped “Charging Connector” that lets you turn its two detachable controllers into a single gamepad, keep them charged with a 10.55 watt-hour internal battery, and plug in a single USB-C cable to charge them both at once.
In November, Lenovo will add a $10 set of swappable joystick tops and joystick caps for those controllers in an intriguing array of shapes, sizes, and colors, and in December, it’ll also add a $30 zippered carry case with a new zippered pocket for accessories and extra room to fit its power adapter inside.
A little context on all of these:
The Legion Go already came with a beefy zippered carry case, but it only fits the console; this one must be truly massive to house all that stuff.
With only a single (4K60) HDMI video output, the dock isn’t all that special — but many existing docks aren’t good fits for the beefy Legion Go, and this one does offer 100W USB-C PD input, an extra USB-C accessory port which isn’t all that common, plus two USB-A and gigabit ethernet.
The Legion Go came with pull-off detachable joystick tops from the get-go, and I’ve sometimes accidentally pulled one off when pulling it out of a bag; these could be good replacements for lost ones as well.
The charging connector wedge isn’t entirely a new idea: Nintendo offers one for the Switch (sans battery) and a few of OneXPlayer’s portable PCs have one that also gives them a wireless radio, as OneXPlayer’s detachable pads don’t have their own.
The Lenovo Legion Go from its most distinctive angle. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge
It’s not clear if Lenovo’s Legion Go handheld gaming PC was a success after its initial rough start last fall and its middling experience by the time I reviewed it this spring — but Lenovo is pushing forward. Not only is it planning a successor, possibly a smaller seven-inch one, but it’s also just revealed an array of new accessories for the console.
Images: Lenovo
The Legion Go’s new dock, joystick caps, carry case, and “charging connector” gamepad wedge.
The Legion Go will get its own official $65 USB-C dock this August — and in October, a full year after launch, you’ll be able to buy a $50 wedge-shaped “Charging Connector” that lets you turn its two detachable controllers into a single gamepad, keep them charged with a 10.55 watt-hour internal battery, and plug in a single USB-C cable to charge them both at once.
In November, Lenovo will add a $10 set of swappable joystick tops and joystick caps for those controllers in an intriguing array of shapes, sizes, and colors, and in December, it’ll also add a $30 zippered carry case with a new zippered pocket for accessories and extra room to fit its power adapter inside.
A little context on all of these:
The Legion Go already came with a beefy zippered carry case, but it only fits the console; this one must be truly massive to house all that stuff.
With only a single (4K60) HDMI video output, the dock isn’t all that special — but many existing docks aren’t good fits for the beefy Legion Go, and this one does offer 100W USB-C PD input, an extra USB-C accessory port which isn’t all that common, plus two USB-A and gigabit ethernet.
The Legion Go came with pull-off detachable joystick tops from the get-go, and I’ve sometimes accidentally pulled one off when pulling it out of a bag; these could be good replacements for lost ones as well.
The charging connector wedge isn’t entirely a new idea: Nintendo offers one for the Switch (sans battery) and a few of OneXPlayer’s portable PCs have one that also gives them a wireless radio, as OneXPlayer’s detachable pads don’t have their own.