This major 2025 video game trend will come into focus at CES
December 31, 2024It’s clear that 2025 will be the year of handheld PC gaming.
What started as an oddity for a relatively small group of hobbyists about a decade and a half ago and found its market with the release of the Steam Deck in 2022 is hitting its second generation and stride in the coming year.
By my count, we’ll likely see at least eight new handheld gaming PCs in the coming year and the success of the form factor and improvements in the technology point to many more.
The tech will certainly be one of the big topics of 2025’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.
The most clear sign of that came when Lenovo sent out invites to its Future of Gaming Handhelds “cocktail reception.”
The event, which kicks off on the evening of Jan. 7, will include a panel featuring Volker During, VP of Gaming at Lenovo, Frank Azor, CVP of Consumer and Gaming Marketing at AMD, Pierre-Loup Griffais, chief design architect at Valve, and Jason Ronald, VP of next generation at Microsoft Xbox.
To continue reading, check out my column, Game, over on Substack where this ran on Dec. 31, 2024.
