Sean Hollister

No need to crowdfund — you can just up and buy it right here for its Early Bird price. There’s a lot to like about its design. But it’s unlikely its old Ryzen 5 4500U will even approach a $349 Steam Deck LCD in performance. I tested the very first Ayaneo, which came with that chip, and the Deck beat it soundly.

Sony shipped 10 million PS5s in just five months last year, and Xbox hardware sales were up 3 percent last quarter. But AMD, whose gaming business provides their chips, is forecasting a “significant double-digit percentage” decline in gaming revenue now that we’re in “the fifth year of what has been a very strong gaming cycle.”

While that doesn’t quite tell us how well AMD’s competing with Nvidia in the AI gold rush, AMD CEO Lisa Su says she’s not sitting back: “The demand for compute is so high that we are seeing an acceleration of the roadmap generations here.”

Last week’s Intel earnings suggested the tide had turned, and AMD’s Q4 and FY23 agree: PC sales are getting back to where they should be.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Nintendo’s just quietly waiting to pull a Twilight Princess, like Mike McWhertor suggests at Polygon?

I’m actually working on a review of the Legion Go right now, and it’s the only Windows gaming handheld I can recommend — if you absolutely must have Windows, can’t wait for Intel-powered handheld reviews, and don’t want a gaming laptop instead.