Enough premium handhelds, focus on affordable and weird ones

At data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/ces” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/ces”>CES 2026, Intel unveiled its next-gen data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/cpu-gpu-components/what-is-intel-panther-lake” target=”_blank” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/cpu-gpu-components/what-is-intel-panther-lake”>Core Ultra Series 3 chips (Panther Lake) and its powerful ARC B390 graphics, which will data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/handheld-gaming-pc/intel-challenges-amd-handheld-dominance-ces-2026″ data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/handheld-gaming-pc/intel-challenges-amd-handheld-dominance-ces-2026″>challenge AMD’s handheld dominance in what some are calling the handheld war.

Currently, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/cpu-gpu-components/amd-ryzen-z2-series-gaming-handheld-chips” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/cpu-gpu-components/amd-ryzen-z2-series-gaming-handheld-chips”>AMD handheld SoCs (system on a chip) power most mainstream handhelds, including data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/xbox-ally” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/xbox-ally”> data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/xbox-ally” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/xbox-ally”>ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/lenovo-legion-go-2″ data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/lenovo-legion-go-2″>Legion Go 2 (Windows), the recently announced data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/lenovo/steamos-legion-go-2-revealed-ces-2026″ data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/lenovo/steamos-legion-go-2-revealed-ces-2026″>Legion Go 2 (SteamOS), and even the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/steam-deck” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/steam-deck”>Steam Deck.

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Sure, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/processors/intel” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/processors/intel”>Intel and data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/processors/amd” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/processors/amd”>AMD can wage a handheld war over who can…