CES sneakily became a great gaming show amid the AI hype [Video]

It’s been a while since I felt a profound case of gadget lust at CES, the tech trade show that takes over Las Vegas every January, but that’s what happened when I picked up Lenovo’s Legion Go S gaming handheld.

I’m already a satisfied Steam Deck owner, but the Legion Go S has a larger and sharper screen with 120Hz refresh rates, AMD’s new Z2 chipset, and—to my hands, at least—perfect ergonomics. It also runs SteamOS, and Valve’s plan to license its software for free to other handheld device makers (starting with Lenovo) was one of CES’s biggest developments. Just like Windows on PCs, it could allow a new gaming hardware ecosystem to bloom.

That’s just one example of how CES stealthily became a window into the future of gaming hardware. Much like last year, the show had plenty of vapid AI hypeto go along with the obligatory improvements in TV and home audio tech. But …