Simply have a look at Ayaneo’s absolute unit of a Windows gaming “handheld”

In 2023, we marveled on the sheer mass of Lenovo’s Legion Go, a 1.88-pound, 11.8-inch-wide monstrosity of a Windows gaming handheld. In 2026, although, Ayaneo unveiled details of its Next II handheld, which places Lenovo’s large boy to disgrace whereas additionally providing heftier specs and a better worth than most different Windows gaming handhelds.

Let’s concentrate on the majority first. The Ayaneo Next II weighs in at a really wrist-straining 3.14 kilos, making it greater than twice as heavy within the palms because the Steam Deck OLED (to not point out 2022’s original Ayaneo Next, which weighed a way more cheap 1.58 kilos). The absolute unit additionally measures 13.45 inches huge and 10.3 inches tall, in keeping with Ayaneo’s spec sheet, giving it a footprint roughly 60 % bigger than the Switch 2 (with Joy-Cons hooked up).

Ayaneo packs some critically highly effective transportable PC efficiency into all that bulk, although. The high-end model of the system sports activities a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chipset with 16 Zen5 cores alongside a Radeon 8060S with 40 RDNA3.5 compute models. That ought to give this large transportable efficiency akin to a desktop with an RTX 4060 or a gaming laptop computer like final yr’s high-end ROG Flow Z13.

Ayaneo isn’t the primary {hardware} maker to package deal the Max+ 395 chipset right into a Windows gaming handheld; the OneXPlayer OneXfly Apex and GPD Win5 function primarily the identical chipset, the latter with an exterior battery pack. But the Next II neatly outclasses the (smaller and lighter) competitors with a high-end 9.06-inch OLED display screen, able to 2400×1504 decision, as much as 165 Hz refresh charges, and 1,155 nits of brightness.