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 VergeIt’s not clear if Lenovo’s Legion Go handheld gaming PC was a success after its initial rough start last fall and its middling...

Aug 26, 2024 - 21:01

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A year later, Lenovo’s Legion Go is getting its own official dock and controller wedge

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.

The Legion Go’s new dock, joystick caps, carry case, and “charging connector” gamepad wedge.

The Legion Go’s new dock, joystick caps, carry case, and “charging connector” gamepad wedge.

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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.