Logitech and Tencent Video games are partnering to create a handheld system tailor-made for cloud gaming. There are not any photographs of it but, however the handheld will assist a number of cloud gaming providers together with Xbox Cloud Gaming and Nvidia GeForce Now when it launches later this yr.
“The brand new system will assist a number of cloud gaming providers, and each corporations are working with the Xbox Cloud Gaming and NVIDIA GeForce NOW groups, so avid gamers can play AAA video games when they’re away from their console or PC,” says weblog submit on the Logitech website.
Though the announcement doesn’t reveal technical specs for the system, it would not must be notably highly effective. The benefit of cloud gaming is that the sport is rendered by a distant server, and the photographs are then despatched to your system over the web. This implies the system might be decrease spec, and cheaper, than a typical gaming machine – but in addition that you will want an ideal web connection so as to play with out noticeable lag.
Help for Xbox Cloud Gaming, which is obtainable as a part of a Recreation Cross subscription, in addition to GeForce Now, means there needs to be loads of PC video games streamable to the system.
The hand held’s improvement is being undertaken by Logitech G, Logitech’s model targeted on gaming gear. Tencent are greatest identified for his or her funding in umpteen sport builders over the previous decade, from Riot to 1C to Funcom to Turtle Rock to dozens of others.
I do not do any cloud gaming at the moment, but when I did I would be tempted to purchase a controller for a telephone or pill I already personal fairly than purchase a brand new machine. If I used to be to desire a handheld for PC gaming, I would be extra tempted by the already comparatively cheap Steam Deck, which is not reliant on superfast web to work. James has even written directions on easy methods to use Xbox Cloud Gaming on the Steam Deck, if you happen to’re so inclined.